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Amid Trump trade worries, China tariffs give Canada ‘firm’ ground: Freeland – National
8Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Amid Trump trade worries, China tariffs give Canada ‘firm’ ground: Freeland – National

Chrystia Freeland says that a unified stance towards China will give Canada a “firm foundation” in upcoming trade negotiations with the United States and president-elect Donald Trump. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Freeland spoke to reporters Friday after the first meeting of the newly revived cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations, which she will again chair.She compared the committee to the task force struck during the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing ministers together regularly to address an “urgent issue.” In this case, it’s the Canada-U.S. relationship, which is set to see the border and trade relations in the spotlight under the incoming Trump administration.Trump, who was declared the winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Wednesday, promised during the campaig...
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US judge pauses Donald Trump 2020 election case after presidency victory
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US judge pauses Donald Trump 2020 election case after presidency victory

Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / Getty Images via AFP By Andrew Goudsward, Reuters A US judge has set aside pending deadlines in President-elect Donald Trump's 2020 election subversion case after federal prosecutors said they were grappling with the "unprecedented circumstance" of his impending return to the White House. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington approved a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting the criminal case, to set aside the deadlines, according to a court order, while they weigh its future. Prosecutors wrote the delay was necessary "to afford the government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy". Under a Justice Department policy dating back to...
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Gaza: About 70% of people killed in the war are women and children, UN says | World News
8Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Gaza: About 70% of people killed in the war are women and children, UN says | World News

Nearly 70% of deaths in the Gaza war, which have been verified by the United Nations, were women and children, its Human Rights Office has said.The UN has analysed killings in the first 11 months of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Palestinian territory and managed to verify 8,119 victims, including 2,036 women and 3,588 children. The 8,119 figure is considerably lower than the 43,000 deaths reported over the course of the 13-month-long war by the Hamas-run health ministry, although the UN does see these numbers as reliable.Out of the verified deaths between 7 October 2023 and 2 September 2024, children represented almost half of the victims (44%) while women accounted for 26%.The highest number of deaths was among children aged between five and nine years old, closely followed by those ag...
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Chimpanzees work better when watched by audience, study suggests | Science, Climate & Tech News
8Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Chimpanzees work better when watched by audience, study suggests | Science, Climate & Tech News

Chimpanzees carry out tasks better when they are watched by others - just like many people do at work - a new study has suggested.A research team in Japan suggested the great apes are receptive to the audience effect - where a person's behaviour changes when they believe someone else is watching - which was long thought to be unique to humans. Christen Lin, of Kyoto University in Japan, said: "It was very surprising to find that chimpanzees are affected in their task performance by audience members, and by human audience members nonetheless."One might not expect a chimp to particularly care if another species is watching them perform a task, but the fact that they seem to be affected by human audiences even depending on the difficulty of the task suggests that this relationship is more com...
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Who is Susie Wiles, America’s first ever female chief-of-staff? | US News
8Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Who is Susie Wiles, America’s first ever female chief-of-staff? | US News

Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff in his first major appointment as president-elect.She will be the first female in history to take up the role - one of the most important non-elected posts in Washington. In his victory speech, Mr Trump described her as an "ice maiden" and has credited her with his "best-run" campaign.Here's what we know about her so far.Daughter of American footballer Susie Wiles grew up in New Jersey. Her father was the late American footballer Pat Summerall.Before his death in 2013, he credited her with helping him get sober and checking in to an alcohol rehab programme. "I hadn't been there much for my kids," he wrote in his memoir. "But Susan's letter made it clear that I'd hurt them even in my absence."Ms Wiles's first job in po...
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Who is Susie Wiles? Donald Trump’s ‘ice maiden’ new chief of staff
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Who is Susie Wiles? Donald Trump’s ‘ice maiden’ new chief of staff

Yesterday, Donald Trump elected Wiles, 67, as his chief of staff, in his first major appointment as president-elect. Wiles will be the first ever woman to hold the role, propelling her from the shadows of the Trump campaign into the political limelight. In a statement on Thursday evening, Trump said that Wiles was instrumental to his election victory and is “tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected”. Source link
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Iranian man described as ‘the best smuggler’ jailed for 17 years after helping migrants cross Channel | UK News
8Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Iranian man described as ‘the best smuggler’ jailed for 17 years after helping migrants cross Channel | UK News

A people smuggler who helped migrants cross the Channel on small boats and posted videos from successful customers has been jailed for 17 years for immigration offences.Amanj Hasan Zada, 34, from Preston, advertised on social media and shared clips of people thanking him for his services. The National Crime Agency (NCA) linked him to three separate crossings from France to the UK in November and December last year involving Kurdish migrants. Image: One clip showed migrants on a boat thanking and clapping Zada. Pic: NCA Image: A group who made it to Macedonia also paid tribute to him. Pic: NCA The groups had travelled through Eastern Europe into Germany, Be...
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Father of Perth girl ‘dangerously underweight’ rejects medical advice she was at risk of a heart attack
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Father of Perth girl ‘dangerously underweight’ rejects medical advice she was at risk of a heart attack

By David Weber for the ABC Photo: WA District Court Warning: This story contains references to child abuse A father on trial for allegedly starving his severely malnourished daughter says he "adamantly disagreed" with medical advice she was at risk of a heart attack and rejected test results. The man, and his wife, are in the midst of being tried in WA District Court for starving their teenager who was described by doctors as being "dangerously underweight". On his second day giving evidence, the man was asked about a visit to a doctor in April 2021, when the girl was aged 17 and weighed not much more than 27kg. In that visit with Dr Amy Murdoch, the father said he was shocked to be told his daughter was "very underweight". "I didn't think I felt the same way," he told the court. Dr...
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Trump’s victory could accelerate Musk’s Mars mission, sources say – National
8Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Trump’s victory could accelerate Musk’s Mars mission, sources say – National

Elon Musk’s dream of transporting humans to Mars will become a bigger national priority under the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, sources said, signaling big changes for NASA’s moon program and a boost for Musk’s SpaceX. NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to use SpaceX’s Starship rocket to put humans on the moon as a proving ground for later Mars missions, is expected to focus more on the Red Planet under Trump and target uncrewed missions there this decade, according to four people familiar with Trump’s burgeoning space policy agenda.Targeting Mars with spacecraft built for astronauts is not only more ambitious than focusing on the moon, but is also fraught with risk and potentially more expensive.Musk, who danced onstage at a Trump rally wearing an “Occupy Mars” T-sh...
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