Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre wrapped up their campaigns on Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and threats to annex Canada are a top issue.
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Canadians are going to the polls on Monday after an election campaign in which U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and musings about annexing Canada became the central issue.
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The Canadian dollar edged higher against its U.S. counterpart on Monday as the greenback posted broad-based declines and Canadians voted in a general election that has been dominated by concerns about U.S. trade tariffs.
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday said it was probing whether Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review violated civil rights laws when the journal's editors fast-tracked consideration of an article written by a member of a racial minority.
Demonstrators rally in a protest organized by the City of Cambridge calling on Harvard leadership to resist federal government interference at the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. April 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi/File Photo
President Donald Trump's administration will move to reduce the impact of his automotive tariffs on Tuesday by alleviating some duties imposed on foreign parts in domestically manufactured cars and keeping tariffs on cars made abroad from piling on top of other ones, officials said.
A drone view shows cars on the day U.S. President Donald Trump is set to announce new tariffs, at the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hocksteinr/File Photo
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in May in the war with Ukraine to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies in World War Two.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised Ukraine's foreign intelligence service on Monday for the "liquidation" of top Russian military figures over the more than three years since the full-scale invasion by Russia.
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Russia's success removes another barrier to a peace deal Moscow was reluctant to conclude with so many enemy troops on its soil.
Iran has proposed meeting the European parties to a 2015 nuclear deal possibly in Rome this Friday if talks resume with the United States, four diplomats said on Monday, cautioning that there has yet to be a response from the Europeans to the idea.
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The head of Israel's domestic intelligence service announced his resignation on Monday, saying he would step down on June 15, six weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to oust him.
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Corpses covered in dust and debris were scattered in the wreckage of a detention centre for African migrants in Yemen, after what Houthi-controlled television described on Monday as a U.S. airstrike that killed 68 people.
Pakistan's defence minister said on Monday a military incursion by neighbouring India was imminent in the aftermath of a deadly militant attack on tourists in Kashmir last week, as tensions rise between the two nuclear-armed nations.
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India said it had responded to 'unprovoked' small arms firing from Pakistan along the de facto border for the fourth consecutive night, as it deepens its search for militants in the region following last week's deadly attack on tourists in Kashmir.
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"If they stop water, all of this will turn into the Thar desert, the whole country," one farmer said. "We'll die of hunger."
Donald Trump has waged an often unpredictable campaign that has upended parts of the rules-based world order that Washington helped build from the ashes of World War II.
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Roman Catholic cardinals will begin their secret conclave to elect the new leader of the global Church on May 7, the Vatican said, confirming what a source had previously told Reuters.
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Heavy is the white mitre worn by the pope. Whoever emerges from the coming conclave as the new leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church will face a myriad of problems.
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Nepal plans to issue permits only to climbers who have scaled at least one other Himalayan mountain peak.
Play at the Madrid Open was cancelled on Monday after a widespread power outage struck the Spanish capital, forcing 15th seed Grigor Dimitrov and his British opponent Jacob Fearnley off court as scoreboards went dark and overhead cameras lost power.
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