PARIS (Reuters) – Rihanna met French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday to discuss the pop star’s charity activities in healthcare and education. The Barbadian singer of hit “Diamonds” founded the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012, a nonprofit organization that promotes scholarship projects across the globe. “We focused on the topic of education from global aspects, […]
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s military took to Twitter to welcome recruits from all gender identities on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would ban transgender people from the U.S. military. The tweet from the Canadian Armed Forces’ official account included a photo of military band members marching in a parade with rainbow […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Congress backed a non-binding motion on Wednesday urging the government to reject the Trump administration’s proposal to scrap the Chapter 19 dispute settlement mechanism in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The motion was backed across party lines in the permanent committee of Congress, which convenes while […]
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States, Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and other nations are demanding the U.N. Security Council takes action to ensure aid convoys reach millions of needy Syrians, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday. In a rebuke to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Russia and […]
By Gabriela Baczynska LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – A deal between the European Union and Canada to share airline passenger data must be revised as parts of it violate privacy and data protection laws beyond what could be justified for fighting terrorism, the EU’s top court said. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that while transfer, […]
By Kawa Omar DUHOK, Iraq (Reuters) – A Yazidi boy rescued from the battlefield in Mosul after three years in Islamic State captivity has asked to be reunited with his mother, who was granted asylum in Canada after escaping from the militants herself. Twelve year-old Imad Tammo was captured by Islamic State along with his […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Belgian Socialist leader who last year became a figurehead for opposition within Europe to an EU-Canada trade pact is stepping back from national politics. As premier of the Walloon region, Paul Magnette refused to allow Belgium’s federal government to back the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), threatening to kill the […]
(Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement authorities on Friday were seeking six teenagers from Burundi who went missing after a robotics competition in Washington, two of whom had been spotted crossing the border into Canada. The teens, aged 16 to 18, were last seen Tuesday after the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge, Washington, D.C., police said. “We […]
By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Six teenagers from a Burundi robotics team have been reported missing after an international competition in Washington and two of them were seen entering Canada, police said on Thursday. The four males and two females were last seen late on Tuesday afternoon when the robotics contest ended at the […]
