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Sep 4, 2025 - World

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...

Sep 4, 2025 - World

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...

Sep 4, 2025 - World

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.

Sep 4, 2025 - World

Luís Montenegro describes incident, in which 16 people died, as ‘one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history’Explainer: what is Lisbon’s Elevador da Glória and how does it work?Europe live – latest updatesPortugal’s prime minister, Luís Montenegro, has promised a swift and thorough investigation to determine the causes of the funicular railway crash in Lisbon that killed 16 people and injured 21 others, describing the incident as “one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history”.The authorities are looking into the crash, which happened on the Portuguese capital’s famous Glória funicular just after 6pm on Wednesday. The city’s mayor has also asked Carris, the municipal public transport company that operates the service, to investigate. Continue reading...

Sep 4, 2025 - World

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