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  "Like Cancer": Brazil's Lula Bans Online Betting Ahead Of Presidential Polls

  Lula's government has also drafted a bill to establish criminal offenses related to fixed-odds betting - the most common and dominant type of online sports betting.

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  'Irresponsible Not To Prepare': Canada's Mark Carney On 'Risk' Of US Invasion

  Carney, in the wide-ranging interview, outlined several ways in which Canada is diversifying away from the US in order to reduce its economic and strategic dependence on the US

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  Canadian PM "Looking Forward" To Host PM Modi, Says "Aim To Wrap Trade Talks"

  Carney wants to double Canada's non-US trade over the next decade and has made India part of a broader effort to reduce the country's dependence on the United States as relations deteriorate under President Donald Trump.

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  US To Open 2 New Military Bases In Greenland After Deal With Denmark: Report

  Those sites are Narsarsuaq, whose population has dwindled to a few dozen people since the US closed its Bluie West One military base in the 1950s, and Mestersvig, a military outpost currently used by the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, a Danish special forces unit.

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  Explained: How Trump's Greenland Deal Gives US Heft, Affects Russia, China

  Trump claimed that what the two countries will sign during next week's United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, is an "infinite life" agreement and that the US will immediately start developing a large military presence in Greenland.

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  "Totally Allowed": Trump Defends Putin's Friend Funding His Son's Wedding

  ProPublica first reported this week that Umar Kremlev helped pay to rent a private island and for a fireworks show when Donald Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson were married in the Bahamas in May.

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  In A First In Over A Century, New Cat Species Identified In Bolivia

  It measures about 18 inches (46 cm) long and weighs around 3 pounds (1.4 kg), making it smaller than the average domestic cat.

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  Sikh Driver Stabbed 17 Times In US Amid Row Over Team Trump's 'Mr Singh' Post

  Speaking from his hospital bed, Singh, who asked to be identified only by his last name because he fears for his safety, said he remains shaken by the violence and cannot understand why he was targeted.

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  Canada Pitches "New Alliance" With Europe Amid US Trade Tensions

  Carney's speech came after EU chief Ursula von der Leyen suggested Canada could become the 27-nation bloc's first "associate member" in her own address to EU lawmakers on Wednesday.

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  Air India Kanishka Bombing Probe Could End After 41 Years, Families Furious

  The development has stunned families who have spent more than four decades seeking answers over the bombing that killed 329 people, including 268 Canadian citizens.

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  Amazon Raises Minimum Starting Wage To $20 An Hour In US

  With the $1-per-hour increase across the board for these workers who do jobs like pack and ship orders, the average pay for these employees will reach nearly $24 per hour

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  US Redirects Military Aid From Europe, Middle East To Allies In Latin America

  The State Department on Tuesday notified Congress that it will reprogram $52 million in foreign military financing from Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq to Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.

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  US Judge Blocks Trump Visa Curbs On Foreign Students, Journalists

  Under the proposed new rules, foreigners on student visas would be admitted for a maximum of up to four years after which they would have to apply for an extension.

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  Trump Pushes Census Overhaul That Could Exclude Millions of Immigrants

  The US Census Bureau argued "illegal aliens (among others) should not be included in the apportionment count, as they are not true inhabitants

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  Who Leads After Trump? Republicans Split Between JD Vance, Marco Rubio

  Donald Trump, 80, remains the Republican Party's dominant figure and has not endorsed a successor.

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  Pony Fur, Mezcal And More: US-Canada Trade War Is Getting Stranger

  The White House said the move would protect US workers, farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition.

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  Can Trump Really Give Every American $5,000? Key Questions Answered

  Trump has made similar pledges in the past which never came about, including promising Americans $2,000 checks from tariff revenues and $5,000 checks from savings made from drastic federal job cuts.

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  New York Marks 25th Anniversary Of 9/11 Attacks Amid Tight Security

  Nineteen Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four planes on that nearly cloudless day in 2001. Two jets slammed into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, causing the iconic 110-story buildings to collapse.

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  From BRIC To BRICS+: How A 2001 Economic Idea Became A Global Power Bloc

  New Delhi assumed the BRICS chairship on January 1, 2026, with the theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability'.

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  Week Before 9/11, White House Got A Chilling Warning About Al-Qaeda

  White House staffer Richard A Clarke had asked then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice if the US was serious about dealing with al-Qaeda.