Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
Spanish premier Pedro Sanchez will embark on the first official bilateral visit by a Spanish leader to Cuba in 32 years on Thursday, at a time when the Communist-run island is looking towards Europe as its ties with the United States fester. Sanchez, who is traveling with two senior ministers and executives from two dozen companies, aims to deepen strong commercial relations and bring political ones up to par with them, according to his government.
He has been described as approaching a handshake like an arm wrestle, in which he clasps the hand and pulls sharply, leaving the recipient off-balance. He yanked French President Emmanuel Macron's hand at the Bastille Day celebration in July 2017, holding on to it for nearly 30 seconds.
Ontario premier-designate Doug Ford leaves after announcing his commitment to keeping the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station in operation until 2024 in Pickering, Ont., on Thursday, June 21, 2018. Doug Ford is set to officially become the premier of Ontario today, weeks after leading his Progressive Conservatives to a sweeping victory in the provincial election.
Ontario premier-elect Doug Ford walks out onto the front lawn of the Ontario Legislature at Queen's Park in Toronto on June 8, 2018. Though he officially takes up the premier's mantle on Friday, Doug Ford has already set the wheels in motion for several of his plans for Ontario -- and one expert predicts the Progressive Conservative leader will move quickly on his agenda once he seizes the reins of the province.
Portugal has offered to take in some of the more than 200 migrants aboard a rescue ship which has been idling for days in the Mediterranean Sea without a port to pull into. The center-left Socialist government says it will know how many people it will accept from the ship operated by German group Mission Lifeline if the ship docks in Malta, a destination Italy's premier announced on Tuesday.
In this May 24, 2018, file photo, people watch a TV screen showing file footage of U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. President Donald Trump's slapdash, on-again-off-again summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday will hand the North Korean dictator a diplomatic coup that his father and grandfather never achieved.
Italy's populist leaders Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini forged ahead with a government plan in marathon talks, while President Sergio Mattarella indicated that he doesn't intend to rubber stamp whatever they decide. Di Maio of the anti-establishment Five Star, and Salvini, who heads the anti-immigrant League and a broader center-right alliance, were set to hold further discussions in Milan Sunday after Salvini said the pair had reached "substantial agreement on the key points" of a political program on Saturday.
WATCH: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley responds to former U.S. vice president Al Gore's anti-pipeline tweet by saying such responses are having a "shrinking amount of impact." Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is shrugging off a tweet by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore that slams Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and calls the province's oilsands dirty.
London: Interior minister Amber Rudd apologised on Monday to thousands of British residents who arrived from the Caribbean decades ago and are now being denied basic rights after being incorrectly identified as illegal immigrants. Prime Minister Theresa May is under growing pressure to resolve the issue of the 'Windrush generation' of migrants who arrived in Britain more than 50 years ago and have become victims of a recent tightening of the immigration system.
As Colorado Springs next week prepares to host the premier global meeting of the space industry with such featured speakers as Vice President Michael Pence, concerns are growing that our state - and, in fact, the nation - is dangerously vulnerable to massive solar storms. Colorado is a national leader in the aerospace industry.
St. John's Pride considers banning Liberals and RNC after government rejects request for apology on Village Mall bathroom charges Premier Dwight Ball, members of his caucus and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary could be banned from participating in this year's Pride Parade because of a dispute over an apology to the LGBTQ community. From January to May 1993, the RNC targeted what they called a homosexual ring operating out of a Village Shopping Centre bathroom.
The showdown between Alberta and B.C. over the TransMountain pipeline is not only pitting the two westernmost provinces against each other. The battle has larger implications not only for the New Democratic Party - which counts two premiers in the fight - but also for the federal government and the panorama of Canadian voters and economic interests.
President's right-hand man has been attending the annual gathering since 1993, but this time he's the one giving the speech President Xi Jinping is not attending Davos this year - he sent China's economic mastermind instead. And although Liu He is no stranger to the annual gathering of the world's business and political elite, he has not previously been the one giving the speech.
I admit to being partisan. However, rather than being a supporter of any party, I am a partisan of social justice, of the idea that all people should be valued equally, that privilege through birth, wealth, or connections, must not play a part in any democratic exercise.
Ireland's minority government is facing crisis as a row over the future of its deputy premier threatens the confidence and supply deal keeping the Fine Gael-led administration in power. Ireland's minority government is facing crisis as a row over the future of its deputy premier threatens the confidence and supply deal keeping the Fine Gael-led administration in power.
Governor Jay Inslee is co-chair of the U.S. Climate Alliance. He is critical of planned Canadian pipeline, which would send 34 tankers a month through international waters of the Salish Sea shared by Washington and British Columbia.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders lent his star power to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on Sunday in Toronto, where he commended the province and the rest of Canada for a public health care system that he admits is "not perfect." The man who inspired millions with his social democratic message but ultimately failed to win the U.S. Democratic Party's presidential nomination last year was introduced by Wynne at a packed event at the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland updates the media on the NAFTA negotiations in the foyer outside the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 25, 2017.
If the B.C Liberals want a candidate who can follow in the footsteps of the departing Kevin Krueger, that is, if they want someone as fervently loyal to the party, as staunchly convinced the NDP is a political disaster waiting to plunge the province into economic ruin, they need look no further than Todd Stone. On the eve of Premier Christy Clark's trip into town to announce good things for RIH, Stone was announcing he wants to succeed Krueger.
Last week, when former FBI Director James Comey gave his long-awaited public testimony about his apparently rough-and-tumble relationship with President Donald Trump, he painted a bleak picture. The essence of Comey's testimony was that the president asked him to drop an investigation of retired Lt.