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MONTREAL – The CEO of a Montreal-based company that uses satellites to monitor methane emissions says interest in his technology continues to reach new heights, even as governments appear to be wavering on their climate commitments. Since 2016, Stéphane Germain’s GHGSat has launched 14 satellites that roam the skies to detect emissions from oil and…

“You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbours.”External affairs minister S Jaishankar issued a stern warning to Pakistan at the United Nations in 2022. Three years later, Pakistan is yet to mend its ways, and the warning rings truer than ever. Then, both leaders accused Pakistan of nurturing…

Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in a request to the White House for a major disaster declaration. In one of the hardest hit villages,…

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang delivers a speech at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, on April 14, 2014. (Chinatopix via AP) Renowned Chinese physicist Chen Ning Yang, who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, died of illness in Beijing on Saturday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.He was…

By Mark Sherman The Associated Press Posted October 17, 2025 4:40 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, escalating President Donald Trump’s conflict with Democratic governors over using the…

A widespread outrage was sparked after the car of a prominent Italian journalist, facing threats from mafia, was blown up by a bomb overnight. It was a close call for his daughter as she had walked by 20 minutes before the explosion took place. The explosion in Pomezia, near Rome, caused no injuries but damaged…

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges. The New York Republican was sentenced in April after admitting last year to deceiving donors and stealing the identities…

Prince Andrew said in a statement on Friday that he is giving up his royal titles, including Duke of York, after his links to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines. “In discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from…

Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro (File photo/AP) Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro has recalled how he once tried to deliver “bad news” to then-President and fellow Democrat Joe Biden ahead of last year’s election — well before Biden decided not to seek a second term.“I went directly to the president and spoke to him about what I…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it will allow Boeing to produce more 737 Max airplanes by increasing the limit that was imposed after a door plug flew off an Alaska Airlines jet that the company built. After the terrifying January 2024 incident, the FAA capped Boeing’s…