RIYADH — The Saudi national football team will participate in the 2025 and 2027 editions of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, beginning with the upcoming tournament hosted by the United States and Canada from June 14 to July 6, 2025.
Saudi Arabia joins eight (...)
President-elect Donald Trump joked that it would be a "great idea" for Canada to become the 51st state of the US, as Canadian leader Justin Trudeau faces a domestic political crisis linked to fears over a potential tariff war with Trump.
"Many (...)
Canada has promised to implement a set of sweeping new security measures along the country's US border, including strengthened surveillance and a joint "strike force" to target transnational organized crime.
The pledge follows a threat from (...)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has been thrown into disarray with the abrupt departure of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland.
By the end of a frenetic day on Monday, a new finance minister was in place but Canadians had yet (...)
The woman who stowed away on a Delta flight from New York to Paris last month was taken into custody again, this time trying to sneak into Canada, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN.
Svetlana Dali managed to cut off her ankle monitor on (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia claimed first place at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY), outperforming 129 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Greece, Canada, and Singapore.
The (...)
The rate of medical assistance in dying – also known as euthanasia – has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit at a slower pace.
The country released its fifth annual report since legalizing assisted dying in 2016, which for the first (...)
RIYADH — The Extraordinary FIFA Congress 2024, which met virtually on Wednesday, announced officially Saudi Arabia as the host of the 2034 World Cup. The Federation Internationale De Football Association (FIFA)President Giovanni Infantino made the (...)
The European Union and Mercosur, the South American trade bloc, announced on Friday the completion of a landmark free trade agreement, ending 25 years of negotiations.
If ratified, the deal will create one of the world's largest free trade zones, (...)
The reach and credibility of international law is at its lowest in years as governments dismiss arrest warrants in some of the most high-profile cases to come before the International Criminal Court.
In the past 18 months, the Hague-based court has (...)
Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining.
Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its waters for precious metals -- an area bigger than the (...)
A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using copyrighted news content without permission to train (...)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau departed Florida on Saturday after a three-hour meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, leaving without a firm commitment from Trump to abandon proposed tariffs on Canadian (...)
India's airlines and airports received 999 hoax bomb threats this year as of 14 November, the country's deputy civil aviation minister told its parliament.
This was nearly 10 times more than the threats received in 2023, Murlidhar Mohol said.
More (...)
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has appeared to contradict President-elect Donald Trump's claim that the two have struck a deal to stop migration to the US border.
After a phone call on Wednesday, Trump posted online: "She has agreed to stop (...)
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China starting on the first day of his administration, a policy that could sharply increase costs for American businesses and (...)
In October, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) sent a chartered flight carrying Indian nationals back home, marking a growing trend in deportations to India.
This was no ordinary flight – it was one of muliple large-scale "removal flights" (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed into law a bill banning the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal.
The legislation, previously approved by both houses of parliament, is part of (...)
A town council in Canada is at a standstill after its newly elected members refused to pledge allegiance to King Charles III as required in the swearing-in ceremony.
Stephen Johnson, the mayor-elect of Dawson City in Yukon Territory, and the new (...)
For more than a decade, Chinese students have flocked to the United States, drawn by the prestige of an overseas education and the glamor of the American Dream. Education consultancies flourished across China, with parents paying big bucks for (...)
A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls. Nila Ibrahimi won the International Children's Peace Prize on Tuesday, an award that has (...)
Nearly three years after an Indian family of four froze to death in Canada during an ill-fated attempt to enter the US, two men are facing trial, accused of trying to help smuggle them across the border.
It was a backpack with child's clothing and (...)
The Justice Department has charged a man for allegedly leaking highly classified US intelligence about Israel's plans for retaliation against Iran, according to court documents and a person familiar with the case.
Asif W. Rahman was indicted last (...)
Rita Ora has paid an emotional tribute to Liam Payne as she hosted this year's MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) in Manchester, almost a month after the One Direction star's death.
Ora collaborated with Payne on their 2018 hit single For You, and her (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticized the "cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats" in a deepening diplomatic row with Canada.
Both countries expelled each other's top envoys last month after Canadian officials accused India of (...)
