Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States needs to get out of the war in Ukraine and that U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and U.S. President Joe Biden had no plan to do so. “Biden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can’t get us out. They…
Israel struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Iran-backed group attacked military facilities in northern Israel on Tuesday, increasing fears of a full-blown conflict after Lebanon suffered its deadliest day in decades. Israel’s military said it hit dozens of Hezbollah targets overnight, a day after carrying out airstrikes against the armed group that Lebanese…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in the United States to set out a “victory plan” to his closest ally this week, in an urgent attempt to influence White House policy on Ukraine’s war with Russia no matter who wins the U.S. elections in November. The Ukrainian leader has said he wants to present the plan to U.S. President Joe…
Justin Trudeau will turn his focus to the ongoing crises in Haiti as he speaks with some world leaders Monday ahead of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The prime minister will meet with the Caribbean country’s acting Prime Minister Garry Conille before delivering remarks at a high-level meeting for a UN advisory…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to be in New York this week for the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future, amid increasing geopolitical instability around the world. “Canada will have a leading role in making the world fairer and more prosperous,” Trudeau said in a news…
World·Breaking The UN General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and called on the Security Council to favourably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations. Global Affairs Canada says it is committed to two-state solution The Associated Press · Posted: May 10, 2024 12:44 PM…
The Government of Canada has announced multiple rounds of sanctions against various parties in the Middle East since October 7. On Friday, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced sanctions against Iran’s minister of defence and its general staff. On February 3, she announced that Canada would impose sanctions on both leaders of Hamas involved in the…
A coalition of human rights groups advocating for Black and racialized Canadians has lodged a formal complaint against the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) for discriminating against its own employees. The coalition also outlined a number of actions Monday it wants the federal government to take to combat what it calls “systemic discrimination within its structures.” “We’re…
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan was formally elected as chairman of the UN Committee on Information (COI), a subsidiary body of the General Assembly, for a two-year term (2023-24), with a pledge to promote fact-based information and fight against the spread of misinformation. “We must combat hate speech,” Ambassador Aamir Khan, deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to…
