UK hits back at Argentinian Falklands claim and insists islands remain British
British ministers have hit back after the Argentinian president said “winds of change” favourable to his country’s claim to the...
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President Javier Milei says ‘winds of change’ support Argentina’s claim to Falkland Islands
President Javier Milei has said “winds of change favourable” to Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands were “blowing around...
Venezuelan opposition leader questions US oil deal with ‘illegitimate regime’
The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim...
Apocalypse prep or pure pragmatism: what is behind Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina?
Dozens of protesters converged on Peter Thiel’s mansion in Buenos Aires this week after a congressional session raised questions...
The US and Venezuela: a century-old relationship drenched in oil
Written in the middle of the last century, the US Department of State memo conveys its message in a curt and undiplomatically...
The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less
Electric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry Noah’s snowmobile as he races across sea ice extending out from Canada’s...
Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for US users after Trump order
Apple has renamed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for US users of its Maps app, after an executive order from Donald Trump to change the name of the...
Trump ally defends Venezuela oil deal amid ‘gunpoint diplomacy’ criticism
The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, has denied Washington is seeking to commandeer huge quantities of Venezuelan oil, amid growing criticism of...
Pete Hegseth criticized for body-shaming Canadian cadet program members
A social media post by Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defense, body-shaming female members of a Canadian youth development program remained online...
Tumbler Ridge mass shooting victims file 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI
OpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. The suits, filed on Wednesday, allege the company’s...
Trump’s ridiculous bullying of Canada is backfiring | Robert Reich
What do bullies do when someone stands up to their bullying and punches them in the face? They look for someone weaker to bully who won’t punch back....
‘Unbelievable’: how a tiny island in Canada appeared, vanished, and reappeared miles away
A thickly forested island appeared mysteriously on a western Canadian lake. Nearly 500 feet long and 250 feet wide, the land mass took locals and...
Mark Carney tells US to ‘start being serious’ amid escalating trade war
Mark Carney has rebuked Donald Trump’s administration and urged officials in Washington to “start being serious” amid escalating trade tensions...
MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order
A pioneering online mapping app that defied Donald Trump by refusing to rename Lake Ontario has become the most in-demand navigation tool in the US....
Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election
The year was 1962 and the Kennedy administration was desperate to swing Brazil’s congressional elections against its leftwing president, João...
Canada’s ruling Liberals sweep special elections in boost to Mark Carney
Canada’s ruling Liberal party has swept three special elections in a result that showed voters backing the prime minister, Mark Carney, after his...
Pin de Fartie review – spoonerist remix of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame finds fresh absurdity in Argentina
Beckett’s masterpiece is given a postmodern cinema slant, with characters in different locations, music and humour in a free and fanciful...
As Canada tariff talks collapse, who’s calling the shots in Trump’s trade team?
Having reportedly read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, in French, during a military tour of duty in Iraq, Jamieson Greer considered himself an unlikely...
Performance and belonging: Rio de Janeiro’s ballroom scene – photo essay
My first encounter with Rio de Janeiro’s ballroom scene was in 2023, during Noite das Estrelas, an artistic occupation that moved through the streets...
Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez says oil deal with Trump has ‘endless’ benefits
Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has defended her government’s highly controversial energy deal with Donald Trump, insisting the South...
‘You’re at war when you get attacked’: Mark Carney shows combative nature in face-off with Trump
Mark Carney stood before a walnut-veneered lectern, his face drawn tight, as he announced that talks with Canada’s biggest trading partner had...
‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America
For William McDonald, 38, a diesel mechanic from Thunder Bay, Ontario, “Canadian is always the first choice,” even if it means his weekly bills are...
They laid down arms. Now ex-guerrillas in Colombia fear fate under new hardline president
In mid-June, 99 guerrilla fighters were flown by helicopter to a small settlement in a rural area of southern Colombia where they lined up and, one...
Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela
Donald Trump announced Friday a new US oil agreement with Venezuela, saying the US will have “majority” control of 65bn barrels of proven oil...
Reports that US wants big stake in Venezuelan oil and gas spark anger
Reports that the US is preparing to claim a big stake in Venezuela’s massive energy reserves have sparked an outcry, with critics describing the move...
Tropical Storm Dolly speeding across Atlantic toward the Caribbean
Tropical Storm Dolly is moving quickly across the Atlantic Ocean toward the Leeward Islands and is expected to bring significant rainfall to parts of...
Dolly Parton was the polar opposite of our bullying president | Robert Reich
I’m still grieving Dolly Parton. I never met her and always wanted to. She was almost exactly my age and my height and had values I deeply admired....
Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city
Every day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that...
Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario, making it Lake America. The largely...
How decoding beluga whales’ chitchat may save them – and teach us more about ourselves
In 2015, the whale researcher Valeria Vergara pitched a small tent at the icy water’s edge on Somerset Island in the remote Canadian high Arctic,...
How to lose Trump’s trade war: test Canada’s resolve with threats to hockey sticks
Earlier this year, a survey found that Canada, along with Switzerland, was the best-liked country in the world. We all know this kind of polling is...
US military kills four in strike on alleged drug smuggling boat in Caribbean
The US military killed four people when it attacked a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday as the Trump administration’s...
At least 47 killed and dozens kidnapped in gang attack near Haiti capital
At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others kidnapped when armed men attacked a once peaceful community near Haiti’s capital at the...
US strikes a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months
After a pause of more than two months, the US military announced Monday that it once again carried out a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific...
Trump announces new 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks and steel
Donald Trump announced a new 50% tariff on automobiles and crucial raw materials from Canada, the latest deterioration in trade relations between the...
Mark Carney says Canada can’t accept US trade deal that would weaken French language
Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as an “irritant … in Quebec, these are rights,” days...
Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you
The US has imposed 50% tariffs on some Canadian goods after trade talks between the two countries collapsed, with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney...
Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’
The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’ On an overcast summer morning, Carolyn Boyd, an...
The lesson from Canada’s collapsed trade talks with the US: negotiation may be futile
The calamitous collapse of trade negotiations between Canada and the United States is a warning to nations worldwide that pursuing any kind of...
‘No more!!!’: Trump lashes out after US-Canada talks devolve into trade war
Donald Trump has hit back at Canada after a breakdown in negotiations plunged the two countries into a trade war. In his first public comments since...
Canada vows to match Trump’s 50% tariffs after trade deal talks fail
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has promised to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar”, after the two sides failed to agree a trade deal by the...
JD Vance reportedly mocks Carney for trying to ‘out-tough’ Trump on trade
Leaked audio from a private event has reportedly captured the US vice-president, JD Vance, mocking Canada for apparently capitulating in a trade deal...
