Saudi Arabia warned of a “hostile aerial threat” and issued a string of emergency alerts across the kingdom overnight, including the first alert in its capital since an escalation in fighting with Iran-backed rebels in neighboring Yemen. Meanwhile, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Tehran has sent Washington its conditions for ending…
CANADA IS IN a strange position. The greatest threat to its economy comes from its close ally and biggest trading partner. In 2024 exports to the United States supported 2.5m jobs in Canada and about a sixth of GDP. Donald Trump attacked as soon as he took office, prosecuting a uniquely intense trade war against…
FEW EVENTS have brought together Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon, political firebrands from opposite ends of the spectrum, in common cause. But the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, DC on September 15th, a gathering of people alarmed by the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, managed it. Both men warned of the unchecked power of tech “oligarchs”…
Saudi Arabia has found itself at the centre of the fallout from the US-Iran conflict. The world’s largest oil exporter is grappling with severe disruptions to its oil sector, with crude production falling to its lowest level in more than three decades. Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production dropped by 3.86 million barrels per day (mb/d)…
US State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott on Thursday (local time) warned Iranian officials against using their visit to New York for the UN General Assembly to go on luxury shopping sprees, saying, “not on our watch”. The 81st UN General Assembly High-Level Week is scheduled to begin on Friday and continue through September 28. (Representative…
Image: Pic: Reuters Palestinian children play a game of volleyball amid the ruins of Gaza City. Image: Pic: AP Pelicans fly past as women take part in a sunset yoga class in San Diego on Thursday. Image: Pic: Reuters A dramatic sky looms overhead as Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk takes on Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova during their…
A Sikh truck driver was stabbed multiple times in the US after a man allegedly followed him into a bathroom and attacked him without warning, leaving him seriously injured and hospitalised. Speaking from his hospital bed, Singh, who asked to be identified only by his last name because he fears for his safety, said he…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world is deeply divided and the U.N.’s most powerful body is paralyzed when it comes to ending conflicts. But there’s a way forward. So says the United Nations’ top official. On his way out of office at year’s end after nearly a decade, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres — known for…
Lillia from Bolton was reported missing on Friday Lillia’s mum, Jessica, issued a plea for her safe return(Image: GMP) The mum of a missing girl from Bolton has issued a tearful plea for her daughter to “return home”. Lillia has been missing since Friday (September 11). She was first spotted at Piccadilly Gardens bus station…
The caiman has been sent to a specialist zoo, along with a python found at the same address Council, police and RSPCA worked together to seize caiman in Hale A crocodile has been seized from a property in Hale after the police and RSPCA received reports that a wild animal was being kept without a…