Author: James Whitmore

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his reportedly tense assembly with U.S. President Donald Trump final week was “constructive,” although he didn’t safe Tomahawk missiles for the struggle towards Russia. In feedback to journalists on Sunday and embargoed till Monday morning, Zelenskyy asserted that Trump reneged on the opportunity of sending the long-range missiles to Ukraine after talking by telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin hours earlier than Friday’s assembly.Trump on Friday known as on Kyiv and Moscow to “cease the place they’re” and finish the battle.“For my part, he doesn’t need an escalation with the Russians till he meets with…

Canadians struggling to search out steady employment or swap jobs could face an uphill battle over the subsequent 12 months because the commerce battle retains most companies caught in impartial and the job market “subdued.” A brand new report from the Financial institution of Canada exhibits a big portion of companies say they’re taking a wait-and-see strategy quite than investing in rising their operations and hiring new employees.In line with the central financial institution’s Business Outlook Survey for the third quarter of 2025, most companies say they count on demand “weak spot” for his or her services and products over…

The Louvre Museum in Paris remained closed on Monday as police proceed to research a brazen daylight heist that lasted less than eight minutes in whole a day earlier contained in the world’s most visited museum. On Sunday, thieves rode a basket raise (or cherry picker) up the Louvre’s facade and smashed an upstairs window and show circumstances earlier than fleeing with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officers mentioned.The heist passed off about half-hour after the museum opened, with guests already inside, and unfolded simply 250 metres from the Mona Lisa.Right here’s all the things we all know up to now about…

Amazon stated its cloud computing service was recovering from a serious outage that disrupted on-line exercise all over the world on Monday. Amazon Net Companies offers distant computing providers to many governments, universities and corporations, together with The Related Press.On DownDetector, an internet site that tracks on-line outages, customers reported points with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, on-line dealer Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and lots of different providers. Coinbase and Sign each stated on X that they had been experiencing points associated to the AWS outage. 0:33 Bell outage disrupts web service for 1000’s throughout Canada The primary indicators of bother emerged…

Ukrainian drones struck a serious gasoline processing plant in southern Russia, sparking a hearth and forcing it to droop its consumption of gasoline from Kazakhstan, Russian and Kazakh authorities stated Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump in the meantime recommended that Kyiv could have to surrender territory in change for an finish to Moscow’s greater than three-and-a-half-year invasion, within the newest of obvious reversals on tips on how to pursue peace.The Orenburg plant, run by state-owned gasoline big Gazprom and situated in a area of the identical title close to the Kazakh border, is a part of a manufacturing and processing…

The Israeli army mentioned it launched air strikes and artillery hearth at targets in southern Gaza on Sunday, dimming hopes {that a} U.S.-mediated ceasefire would result in lasting peace as Israel traded blame with Palestinian militant group Hamas. Israel’s assaults on Sunday have been probably the most critical check of an already fragile ceasefire, which took impact on October 11.Israel’s army mentioned in a press release that the strikes focused militants within the Rafah space who had opened hearth on its troopers. It mentioned the assaults destroyed tunnels and army buildings.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned Israel would retaliate forcefully…

Thieves broke into Paris’ Louvre museum through the use of a crane and smashing an upstairs window on Sunday, stealing priceless jewellery from an space that homes the French crown jewels earlier than escaping on motorbikes, the French authorities stated. The theft is prone to increase awkward questions on safety on the museum, the place officers had already sounded the alarm about lack of funding at a world-famous website that welcomed 8.7 million guests in 2024.The thieves struck at about 9.30 a.m. (0730 GMT) when the museum had already opened its doorways to the general public, and entered the Galerie…

From Washington to Vancouver, and from Montreal to Berlin, 1000’s gathered Saturday for the second No Kings Day, a day of motion protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and what organizers describe as a stand towards authoritarianism. In Vancouver, lots of gathered in downtown on Saturday for the occasion, held at Jack Poole Plaza beside the Olympic Cauldron, between 12 p.m. and a couple of p.m., and was one in every of greater than  2,000 coordinated demonstrations internationally.“In Canada, we gained’t again down towards chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Develop our motion and be part of us,” a launch from organizers…

The 2 survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel within the Caribbean will probably be despatched to Ecuador and Colombia, their house nations, President Donald Trump stated Saturday. The army rescued the pair after placing a submersible vessel Thursday, in what was at the least the sixth such assault since early September.“It was my nice honor to destroy a really giant DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating in the direction of the USA on a well-known narcotrafficking transit route,” Trump stated in a social media publish. “U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with largely Fentanyl, and different…

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will keep closed “till additional discover,” Israel stated Saturday, after the Palestinian embassy in Egypt stated the territory’s sole gateway to the surface world would reopen Monday for folks returning to Gaza. The assertion by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace stated reopening Rafah would depend upon how Hamas fulfills its ceasefire function of returning the stays of all 28 dead hostages. Israel’s international ministry earlier stated the crossing would possible reopen Sunday.Hamas has handed over the stays of 10 hostages. In an announcement, it asserted that its armed wing would hand over the stays…