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Canada’s Mark Carney signals austerity measures as government shifts focus from Trump to economy

Prime minister cautions Canadians as Ottawa moves to curb spending to balance near-record military expendituresMark Carney has told Canadians to prepare for austerity measures and his finance minister warned of “tough choices” in the coming months, as the government attempts to balance near-record defence spending, cuts to government programs and a trade war with the United States.Carney, the former central banker and economist turned politician, has been meeting senior ministers before the fall budget, and hinted cuts were coming to the federal bureaucracy. Continue reading...

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Canada: one person killed and six injured in stabbing in remote First Nation community

Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the suspect who attacked Hollow Water First Nation has also died One person has been killed and six others injured in a mass stabbing in an Indigenous community in central Canada, according to federal police who said that the the suspect also died in the incident.The violence occurred in Hollow Water First Nation, a remote community with about 1,000 residents, 217km (135 miles) north of Manitoba’s provincial capital, Winnipeg, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told AFP. Continue reading...

Peace deal Trump's best bet for ending Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. ambassador to NATO says

Neither Russia nor Ukraine is scoring significant wins on the battlefield and the war between those two countries, now well into its fourth year, will only end at the negotiating table, said U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker.

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Police in Rio de Janeiro raid a drug trafficking ring and kill 8 gang members

Rio de Janeiro’s police have killed eight people accused of being part of a drug-trafficking gang during an operation in a low-income neighborhood

Daughter of Nazi officer who stole 'Portrait of a Lady' and her husband charged with cover-up

Prosecutors in Argentina have charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official with trying to hide an 18th-century painting from authorities following revelations that it had been stolen from a Jewish art dealer during World War II