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Thousands of truck drivers across the United States have been barred from operating after failing newly enforced English proficiency tests, with Indian-origin and Latino drivers among those most affected. The rule, reinstated under Donald Trump’s administration, has raised alarm among trucking companies and worker groups, who say it unfairly targets immigrant drivers. It could worsen…

Scenes from the explosion (X) A gas cylinder exploded in the basement cafeteria of the Supreme Court of Pakistan building in Islamabad early Tuesday morning, causing the building to tremble and injuring around a dozen people, according to law-enforcement authorities and media reports.According to Ali Nasir Rizvi, Islamabad’s inspector general of police, the isolated incident…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments on whether U.S. President Donald Trump has authority to impose tariffs under emergency powers — a case Trump has called “one of the most important” in the court’s history. The case centres around Trump’s use of national emergency authorities to lay tariffs on countries around the…

The former Bloc MP who lost her Quebec riding by a single vote is taking the matter to the Supreme Court of Canada. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné says she will appeal a recent Quebec Superior Court decision that rejected her request for a new election in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne. She had challenged the result after…

Elon Musk has landed in controversy over his latest remarks, as people said he is being “racist” purposely against “coloured people.” The backlash of the billionaire started after he misspelt the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani‘s name while endorsing his rival, Andrew Cuomo.Taking to X, Musk urged voters to back Cuomo, writing: “Bear…

It seems Halloween had a visitor from beyond our solar system. Astronomers at Arizona’s Lowell Observatory managed to snap what’s believed to be the first optical image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after its fiery swing around the Sun — a cosmic trick-or-treater caught on camera by the 4.3-metre Discovery Telescope.Qicheng Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow at…

An explosion at a Harvard Medical School building on Saturday morning appears to have been set off intentionally, though nobody was hurt, authorities said. Police at the Ivy League university said a lone responding officer encountered two unidentified individuals but was unable to apprehend them, university police told The Associated Press. 0:41 Trump signs proclamation to…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney called him from his trip to Asia “a couple of times” to ask him to immediately pull his anti-tariff commercial, after it led to a breakdown in U.S.-Canada trade talks. Carney said this weekend he told Ford not to run the $75-million ad campaign, which quoted…

As Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares to visit the United Arab Emirates, human rights advocates are calling on his government to do more to stop the flow of weapons from the UAE to a militia in Sudan committing atrocious acts of ethnic violence. While the UAE insists it isn’t arming the Rapid Support Forces militia,…

A worker, who had been rescued from the rubble of the collapsed medieval Torre dei Conti in central Rome, died, Italian news outlet Corriere della Sera reported after midnight on Tuesday. Crowds had cheered when emergency services freed him on Monday evening, but crews, who worked through the night amid the risk of further collapses,…