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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The leader of Canada’s energy-rich province of Alberta, Danielle Smith, met with President-elect Donald Trump and his team at Mar-a-Lago, Fla., this past weekend to try to convince them that a trade war would be bad for both countries. She came home resigned to a fight.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A little over 85 years ago, on 1 September 1939, the Wehrmacht attacked Poland under orders from Adolf Hitler, sparking off World War II. At the end of a conflict whose body count from military and civilian casualties is estimated at around 70-85 million, a global world order emerged in which the sanctity of territorial boundaries, democracy and liberal values were enshrined as non-negotiable.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Cease-fire talks between Palestinian militant group Hamas and the Israeli government have made progress in recent days, raising hopes a deal could be reached to release some of the hostages still held in the Gaza Strip and pause fighting that has dragged on for 15 months. “We are close to a deal and it can get done this week," U.S.

If the tariff war escalates and the Reserve Bank of India relaxes its intervention strategy in the foreign exchange market, the rupee could hit the 87 mark even before the end of this fiscal year, they cautioned.

Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl and his prospective coalition partners say they have reached an agreement to bring down the budget deficit

Donald Trump as the next US President was greeted in the Middle East with a mixture of rapture and dread, especially among Palestinians.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump suggested he would use “economic force” to annex Canada at a press conference this week, marking an escalation in the string of threats and jibes he has made against the country since his election.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When a state-sponsored Chinese hacker breached the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, it allowed the Communist Party to access sensitive information with significant strategic implications. It’s the latest example of Beijing’s espionage campaign against the West, which runs deeper and is far more dangerous than the Soviet efforts of the 20th century.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hamas suffered a severe blow last fall when Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, the group’s leader and strategist behind the Oct. 7 attacks.

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Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, said the foreign ministers would convene in Brussels on January 27 in an effort to decide how the 27-nation bloc would relax sanctions on Syria. After 13 years of civil war, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in a lightning offensive by insurgent forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham a month ago. The group has since set up a caretaker government in Damascus. Any European decision to ease sanctions would be conditional on the new Syrian administration's approach to governing, which must include «different groups» and women and «no radicalisation», Kallas said, without elaborating. «If we see the developments going to the right direction, we are ready to do the next steps...If we see that it's not going to the right direction, then we can also move back on this.»

Rajnath Singh and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan will attend the ninth Armed Forces Veterans' Day event here on Tuesday, a defence spokesman said. Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah along with senior military and civil officials will also attend the event to be held at the Tanda artillery brigade in Akhnoor under the aegis of the army's Northern Command to honour the force veterans and «veer naris», the spokesman said. About 1,000 armed forces veterans from Jammu, Akhnoor, Pallanwala, Rakhmuthi, Naushera and Sunderbani are likely to attend the function, which will also include the hoisting of a 108 feet national flag and the inauguration of a heritage museum in Akhnoor, the spokesman said. The J-K culture department will present cultural performances reflecting the region's rich heritage, he said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian Air Force (IAF) is not only short of an adequate number of aircraft to protect our skies, but will see its capabilities weaken over time, unless corrective action is taken immediately. In my estimate, a significant proportion of IAF’s fighter aircraft fleet is down due to a shortage of Russian spares, and the rest are sparingly used to ensure that they don’t fly into a spares crunch.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In February 1798, as the septuagenarian maharajah of Travancore lay dying, he had occasion to reflect on his four-decade-long kingly career. There was much he had achieved: the conquest of fresh territories from an old rival, the defence of this and other possessions from a different enemy, a reputation as a dharmic ruler, and more.

Russia-Ukraine war has again proved it, an army commander said on Saturday. General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, Lt Gen M K Katiyar, in his address at an investiture ceremony here, without naming any country, also said, «Because our disputes, along northern and western borders, are related to land, therefore for us it becomes even more necessary to win on land». «This is a challenging time for our army. Two major wars are currently underway in the world and going on for a long time. Many countries are directly or indirectly linked to these wars,» he said. Despite efforts by world bodies such as the UN, these wars are neither ending nor getting limited. Today's situation encourages those countries who want to settle disputes through the use of force or fighting, the top army officer said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Jørgen Boassen, a 50-year-old bricklayer and Trump admirer, was at the airport in Greenland’s capital Nuuk this week wearing a MAGA hat to cheer the arrival of Trump Force One. But Boassen, who helped organize the visit from Donald Trump, Jr., says he has no interest in President-elect Donald Trump’s entreaties to buy the icebound island.

export of nuclear energy technologies, so the sanctions are seen as a form of unfair competition from unfriendly states," it said. «For nearly three years, we have operated under growing sanctions pressure, adapting successfully and remaining prepared for any scenario. Rosatom continues to meet all its commitments to partners in full,» Rosatom said in a statement. President Joe Biden's administration announced Friday that it's expanding sanctions against Russia's critically important energy sector, unveiling a new effort to inflict pain on Moscow for its grinding war in Ukraine as President-elect Donald Trump gets set to return to office vowing to quickly end the conflict. Two Indian companies-Skyhart Management Services and Avision Management Services- and senior officials from Rosatom which specialises in nuclear energy, nuclear non-energy goods and high-tech products were among the over 150 entities and individuals, including major Russian oil producers Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas, Russian insurance companies, and shadow fleet vessels, were imposed with restrictions.

Wasfi Maasarani, a prominent singer and a symbol of the Syrian uprising, took the stage to celebrate «Syria's victory.» The Wednesday performance marked Maasarani's return to Syria after 13 years of exile. While living in Los Angeles, Maasarani had continued to support the Syrian revolution through his music, touring across the US and Europe, reported AP. The concert was organized by the Molham Volunteering Team, a humanitarian group founded by Syrian students, and also coincided with the one-month anniversary of a rapid insurgency that ousted former President Bashar Assad. Maasarani's revolutionary anthems, along with those of late singer and activist Abdelbasset Sarout, played a pivotal role in galvanizing opposition throughout Syria's 14-year uprising-turned-civil war, which began in 2011, reported the news agency.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A technology tussle between the two superpowers is never far away. This week the Wall Street Journal reported a breach of American telecoms networks by a Chinese hacking group known as “Salt Typhoon", which was seemingly intended to glean knowledge about American wiretapping activities.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The crude stick-figure diagram, sketched in blue ink, details how North Korean soldiers deployed to support Russia in the Ukraine war should respond to the approach of a Ukrainian drone. One soldier—referred to as “bait" in the drawing—should stand still to lure the drone so that a pair of comrades can attempt to shoot it down.