The Canadian Finance Minister and Canadian Minister of Industry spoke on Canada's retaliatory tariffs on the US.

Canada is retaliating against the Trump administration with counter-tariffs targeting more than 700 products, putting its hardest squeeze on American steel and aluminum. The dollar-for-dollar measures announced Tuesday hit back at the new 50 percent tariffs the United States imposed on roughly $20 billion in Canadian imports after negotiations collapsed last week between the two countries,

Canada is preparing retaliatory tariffs against the United States as relations sharply deteriorate, with President Donald Trump telling Canadian leaders to “fall in line” and musing about renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America.

The counter-tariffs take effect on U.S. goods from September 8 and will impose duties of 15%, 25% and 50% across 700 products.

The incident is among the deadliest hospital fires in recent years in Pakistan, where government health care is subsidized but facilities are under-resourced and overburdened.

The fire broke out in an air conditioning unit at the mother and child unit in one of Islamabad's main hospitals.

At least 14 newborn babies died Wednesday morning in one Pakistan’s deadliest hospital fires in recent decades.

Fourteen infants were killed in a fire at one of the largest hospitals in Pakistan’s capital early Wednesday, prompting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to order an investigation.

Oil fell Wednesday, as investors continue to assess the U.S. pivot toward economic sanctions rather than military strikes to add pressure on Iran.

Oil prices fell in early trading, with Brent crude below $90 a barrel, despite U.S. plans to tighten economic pressure on Iran.

What matters more for oil prices is how hard U.S. sanctions hit China, Iran’s biggest oil buyer, and whether Beijing pushes back.

Long queues formed at petrol stations in Tehran on Tuesday after the United States announced fresh sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran into submission.The government has attributed the violence to

U.S. Southern Command forces killed four people Tuesday in its latest strike targeting an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean.

The U.S. military has attacked another boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people

The Aug. 23 strike on a suspected drug boat was the first such attack in more than two month, according to independent conflict monitor ACLED.

The US military has killed at least 227 people in strikes that have destroyed 69 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States, according to official announcements and CNN’s analysis of search and rescue efforts.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Russia because US intelligence had gathered information indicating that Moscow was making early preparations for a possible military mobilisation.

The CIA director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced flight to Moscow for talks, according to a source. This is Ratcliffe's first trip to Moscow since he began his tenure as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

It is Ratcliffe’s first publicly known trip to the Russian capital, but the CIA declined to say why he is there.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the Washington Post that Ratcliffe's visit involved "contacts between security services."

At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others kidnapped after armed men attacked a once-peaceful community near Haiti’s capital earlier this week, the United Nations said Tuesday.

The United Nations says armed men have killed at least 47 people and kidnapped over 50 others near Haiti’s capital

Now it has become another killing ground for Haiti’s terrorizing armed gangs as they continue to extend their reach. On Sunday night, members of the powerful Viv Ansanm coalition stormed the town’s center and went on a killing spree,

Raid on hillside town of Kenscoff prompts community fury after police fail to prevent latest assault minutes from local station At least 47 people were killed and 22 more injured in an overnight gang raid on a neighbourhood overlooking Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince,