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By Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo VAUGHAN, Canada (Reuters) – Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre strode on stage for a rally at a union headquarters north of Toronto, as Canadian country music blared. “Who is voting for a change in Canada?!” he yelled. Poilievre, a 45-year-old career politician, then evoked nostalgia for the 1970s, when …

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(This April 25 story has been refiled to add back words dropped from the headline) By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 and faced lawsuits in two states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records …

Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator was once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos Read More »

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed on Saturday what he said was the complete failure of an offensive by Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region after Moscow said they had been expelled from the last village they had been holding. Russia also confirmed for the first time that North Korean soldiers have been fighting …

Russia says last Ukrainian troops expelled from Kursk region, Kyiv denies assertion Read More »

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas is open to a years-long truce with Israel in Gaza but is not willing to lay down its arms, an official said on Saturday, as leaders of the Palestinian Islamist militant group met mediators in Cairo for ceasefire talks. Sources close to the talks told Reuters Hamas hoped to …

Hamas open to long Gaza truce but not to disarming, an official says Read More »

By Andrew Silver, Trixie Yap and David Lawder (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump asserted in an interview published on Friday that tariff negotiations were under way with China, but Beijing denied any talks were taking place, the latest in a series of conflicting signals over what progress was being made to de-escalate a trade war …

Conflicting US-China talks statements add to global trade confusion Read More »

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s purges and apparent acts of retribution aimed at top cyber officials put the nation’s digital defenses at risk, a former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a post on Friday. Trump’s recent moves to fire the two top National Security Agency officials …

Ex-CISA boss says Trump actions risk ‘dangerously degrading’ US cyber defenses Read More »

By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney urged Israel to allow the World Food Programme to work in Gaza, saying food must not be used as a ‘political tool’, hours after the UN agency ran out of stocks due to a sustained Israeli blockade on supplies. The WFP said on Friday …

Canada PM Carney condemns Israeli blockade on food, says WFP must be allowed to work in Gaza Read More »

By William Schomberg WASHINGTON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rachel Reeves met U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday to discuss a trade deal, shortly after saying that improving business ties with the European Union was “arguably even more important.” Reeves held discussions with Bessent at a gathering of world finance chiefs at the International Monetary …

UK’s Reeves talks trade with US’s Bessent after stressing EU ties Read More »