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World leaders reacted to the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump released this week impacting essentially every U.S. trading partner.  The White House has implemented a flat 10% tariff on apparently all imports, though some nations saw drastically higher taxes slapped on their U.S. exports – including Vietnam, which was issued …

Russia is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s threats to bomb Iran, calling them “illegal and unacceptable.”  Trump in recent days has increased his threats against Iran and warned that there could be direct conflict if the Islamic Republic doesn’t stop arming the Houthi terrorist group or halt its nuclear …

A 1947 agreement outlining obligations as host of the United Nations continues to give employees and their family members relatively unfettered access to the U.S.  At a time of increased national security fears and immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, experts are urging a re-examination of the host nation agreement …

Iranian military commanders are considering a preemptive strike on a joint U.S.-U.K. base on the Chagos Island located in the Indian Ocean in an apparent attempt to deter President Donald Trump from launching a military attack on Iran, a report by the Telegraph first said. “Like any Iranian military threat, …

Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip is expanding to “crush” the area of Hamas terrorists and seize “large areas,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday. Katz said in a statement that the military operation was “expanding to crush and clean the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure and seizing …

President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners throughout the world Wednesday, saying the U.S. would add a 10% minimum baseline tax on all products coming in. The Trump administration has identified what it has called the “Dirty 15” as the 15 nations with the largest trade deficit …

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday evening vowed to “fight” the new round of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, and said he would turn to other international partners to get through the rocky times ahead.  “President Trump has just announced a series of measures that are going to …

OTTAWA – As Canadians brace themselves for President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” of reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, one political leader in Canada believes it could spark the start of a new era of Canada-U.S. relations free of cross-border taxes. Maxime Bernier, who served as foreign affairs minister in former Prime …

Canada is bracing for the fallout of President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war, with economists warning of spiking grocery prices, major job losses and even a potential recession if threatened U.S. tariffs take effect. The United States is Canada’s largest trading partner, accounting for nearly two-thirds of Canadian imports and …

A man who stabbed five people in Amsterdam last week, including two Americans, likely had a “terrorist motive,” Dutch prosecutors announced Tuesday.  The suspect, identified by police as a 30-year-old Ukrainian from the Donetsk region, according to Reuters, was taken into custody Thursday after a bystander reportedly overpowered him.  “The man …