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US slams Canada for rejecting “Golden Dome”
Photo credit: CBC US President Donald Trump has strongly criticized Canada for rejecting his proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence system and Canada’s growing economic relationship with China. The Week reports that Trump earned that the partnership would backfire on them quickly. Trump said Canada is risking North America’s safety by rejecting the Golden Dome. In…
Iran warns any attack will mean “all-out war”
Photo credit: The Economic Times A senior Iranian official has warned that the country will treat any attack “as an all-out war against us” ahead of the arrival of a US aircraft carrier strike group and other assets in the region. Sky News reports that the warning and surge in US military presence comes almost two weeks…
44 nominated for Global Diaspora elections!
Photo credit: Jamaica Gleaner Forty-four people have been nominated across Canada and the US to contest for seats on the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council (GJDC) and the Global Jamaica Diaspora Youth Cou ncil (GDYC). The Gleaner reports that 17 of them were nominated to represent the United States Northern Region, 16 to represent Canada, eight…
Trump withdraws Carney’s invitation to “Board of Peace”
Photo credit: Toronto Star President Donald Trump has rescinded an invitation to Prime Minister Mark Carney to join the new “Board of Peace,” – marking the latest upheaval in the relationship between Canada and the US as a critical trade agreement set to be reviewed. Trump did not give details about why he was withdrawing Carney’s invitation…
US Immigration detains 5-year-old!
Photo credit; Aljazeera US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have detained a 5-year-old boy. AA reports that the boy was taken from his home in the state of Minnesota on Thursday .https://youtu.be/RodeOnpH_cc?si=UNFySbztKk-_Qeo- The child was taken by ICE agents from the driveway of his suburban Minnesota home on Tuesday after returning from preschool and was…
Nigeria’s Vice-President links food crisis to import dependence!
Photo credit: Street Journal Vice President Kashim Abubakar has announced that Nigeria no longer views food security through a narrow agricultural lens, but as a fundamental macroeconomic, security and governance issue. Leadership reports that he said the government had begun a multi-dimensional agricultura drive designed to insulate the nation from global shocks while restoring the…
Trump backs off threat over Greenland!
In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, US President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic Island. CBC News reports that Trump had stuck to a take-it-or-leave-it position on Greenland. He insisted that nothing short of the US owning the Danish territory would address…