China Orders Canadian Diplomat to Leave By May 13
China has ordered a Canadian diplomat to leave the country, in a tit-for-tat move hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government expelled a Chinese envoy from his nation.
China has ordered a Canadian diplomat to leave the country, in a tit-for-tat move hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government expelled a Chinese envoy from his nation.
Turkey’s main opposition leader has accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government of covering up the true state of the economy and the country’s finances, capping his campaign with a jolting message before a closely contested vote later this week.
Standard Bank Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest lender by assets, defended it’s investment in fossil-fuel projects, saying the continent’s energy needs have to be balanced with climate concerns.
Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted as Thailand’s prime minister in 2006 and has lived in self-imposed exile for well more than a decade following a corruption conviction, said he planned to return to the Southeast Asian nation in July.
US government employees asked a federal judge to order Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to continue borrowing to keep the government open if political talks to raise the national debt ceiling fail.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing new calls to promote home building after the UK’s housing crunch was blamed for contributing to the Conservative Party’s widespread losses in local elections.
Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked Harlan Crow, a billionaire Republican donor, to lay out in detail any gifts or payments made to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his family, as a battle over the high court’s ethics intensifies.
Former FTX Chief Executive Officer Sam Bankman-Fried asked a judge to dismiss several criminal charges against him, arguing prosecutors improperly filed the additional counts after his extradition from the Bahamas.
Another aerial attack on Kyiv unfolded early Tuesday morning as multiple explosions were heard in the capital.
The US, Japan and South Korea are planning to link their radar systems to better track missiles from North Korea and potentially speed up their responses to a launch by Pyongyang, the Yomiuri newspaper said.