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Canada: India accused of meddling in Canada’s Conservative Party race
Canada’s Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has said he won his leadership “fair and square” following reports that India allegedly meddled in the party’s 2022 leadership race.
Citing a source with top-security clearance, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported allegations that Indian agents were involved in fundraising and organising within Canada’s South Asian community to support Poilievre.
There is no evidence that Poilievre or his team were aware of the alleged interference.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney also faced scrutiny over whether a candidate was ousted due to alleged ties to India. Both leaders fielded questions as they campaigned ahead of Canada’s 28 April election.
Europe: Germany leads defiance to Trump car tariffs, saying it ‘will not give in’
Germany has said it “will not give in” and that Europe must “respond firmly” as US President Donald Trump targets imported cars and car parts with a 25% tax in his latest tariffs.
Other major world economies have vowed to retaliate, with France branding the move “very bad news”, Canada calling it a “direct attack”, and China accusing Washington of violating international trade rules.
Early on Thursday, shares in Frankfurt for Porsche, Mercedes and BMW fell sharply alongside French firm Stellantis, the maker of Jeep, Peugeot and Fiat.
Trump has threatened to impose “far larger” tariffs if Europe works with Canada to do what he describes as “economic harm” to the US.
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USA: Trump announces 25% tariffs on car imports to US
US President Donald Trump has announced new import taxes of 25% on cars and car parts coming into the US in a move that threatens to widen the global trade war.
Trump said the latest tariffs would come into effect on 2 April, with charges on businesses importing vehicles starting the next day. Charges on parts are set to start in May or later.
The president claimed the measure would lead to “tremendous growth” for the car industry, promising it would spur jobs and investment in the US.
But analysts have said the move is likely to lead to the temporary shutdown of significant car production in the US, increase prices, and strain relations with allies.
Palestine: Israeli military kills Hamas spokesman as Gaza assault continues
A Hamas spokesperson has been killed by an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza, news outlets have confirmed, as Israel’s army continues its renewed assault on the besieged enclave.
Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua was killed when Israeli fighter jets bombed his tent shelter in the northern city of Jabalia in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to Al-Aqsa television and the Shehab News Agency.
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France: Zelensky hopes US will ‘stand strong’ in face of Russian demands
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes the US will “stand strong” in the face of Russian demands to lift sanctions as a condition for a ceasefire in the Black Sea.
Moscow said a maritime truce announced on Tuesday to allow safe passage for commercial vessels would only begin once Western restrictions on Russia’s food and fertiliser trade had been lifted.
Zelensky was speaking during a panel interview in Paris with journalists from across Europe.
Asked by the BBC if the US would resist Russian pressure, he said: “I hope so. God bless, they will. But we’ll see.”
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North Korea: Kim Jong Un oversees tests of new AI-equipped suicide drones
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has personally supervised his country’s testing of new AI-equipped suicide and reconnaissance drones and called for unmanned aircraft and artificial intelligence to be prioritised in military modernisation plans.
State-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday that Kim oversaw the testing of “various kinds of reconnaissance and suicide drones” produced by North Korea’s Unmanned Aerial Technology Complex.
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Greenland: Trump reiterates US must ‘have’ Greenland ahead of JD Vance visit
United States President Donald Trump has re-asserted his desire for Washington to take control of Greenland, in advance of a controversial planned visit to the Danish autonomous territory by Vice President JD Vance.
“We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it,” Trump said in an interview on Wednesday.
Turkey: Opposition leader vows protests will continue ‘in every city’
The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has told the BBC that protests will continue “in every city” until either early presidential elections are called, or the jailed mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, is released from prison.
Ozgur Ozel, chairman of the mayor’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), said the nationwide protests would include a very large demonstration this Saturday in Istanbul. That will open the party’s campaign to make Imamoglu the country’s next president in elections that are due in 2028, he said.
“In every city we go to, we will have the biggest rallies in their history,” Ozel declared.
“The belief in Ekrem Imamoglu and in democracy will make the protests bigger and stronger,” he told us at his party headquarters in Istanbul, as visitors, staff and advisors bustled in and out.
The opposition has brought huge crowds onto the streets – the biggest seen here in over a decade – since Imamoglu was arrested seven days ago.
Alongside the mass demonstrations, there have also been mass arrests – more than 1,400 people and counting, including seven Turkish journalists who were reporting on the protests.
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DR Congo: Conflict tests China’s diplomatic balancing act
China’s efforts to build up huge business interests across Africa have been accompanied by a careful policy of maintaining neutrality – but the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused a shift in its approach.
Rwanda has been widely accused of stoking the fighting in the mineral-rich region and Beijing, which has close relations with both DR Congo and Rwanda, has in recent weeks joined the criticism.
But it is trying to walk a diplomatic tightrope to maintain good relations with both countries, while also continuing to operate its businesses – and buy crucial minerals.
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How Indian scholar expelled by Trump fled the US
It had to be spam. That’s what 37-year-old Ranjani Srinivasan thought when she first received an email from the United States consulate in Chennai, the southern Indian city where the Columbia University PhD candidate is from.
The email, which arrived at midnight, had slipped past Srinivasan’s tired eyes before she went to bed. But on Thursday, March 6, at about 7:50am in New York City, it was almost the first thing she saw when she stirred awake in her Columbia-owned apartment. Still groggy, she reached for her phone, its screen glowing in the dim morning haze. And then she saw it – the email that had been waiting for her all night.
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Canada: Murder victim known as Buffalo Woman finally identified
Canadian investigators have formally identified a missing indigenous woman who was murdered by a serial killer in 2022.
Ashlee Shingoose, 30, was the first of four people killed by Jeremy Skibicki in Manitoba. She had been known only as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman) until her identity was discovered by investigators and revealed on Wednesday.
Police officials also shared new details about Ms Shingoose’s death, including naming the local landfill where they believe her remains are located.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew pledged to conduct a search of the facility, in an effort to find her body at her family’s request.
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Gaza Palestinians speak about Israel’s plan to force them out
Listening to the radio a few days ago outside the tent he now has to call home, 77-year-old Mohammed al-Nabahin heard about an Israeli plan to establish a “voluntary” migration office for Palestinians in Gaza.
The news report gave al-Nabahin the details. An agency planned by Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, and approved by the cabinet. Its aim was to organise and secure the exit of Palestinians “wishing to migrate” to third countries. Palestinians returning to their original villages in historical Palestine was not mentioned.
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Brazil: Ex-President Bolsonaro to stand trial on coup charges, court rules
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for allegedly attempting to stage a coup against current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after a ruling from the country’s top court.
The Supreme Court’s five-member panel voted unanimously in favour of the trial going ahead.
It could start as early as this year, and if found guilty Bolsonaro, 70, could face years in prison.
Speaking after the court’s decision, Bolsonaro told a press conference the charges against him were “grave and baseless”. He has always denied trying to block Lula’s inauguration
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Sudan: Army in full control of Khartoum
Sudan’s military leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has visited the presidential palace in Khartoum, after landing at the city’s international airport, just hours after it was recaptured by the army.
Surrounded by cheering soldiers at the venue – a significant symbol of absolute power and sovereignty – Burhan declared the capital “free” of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
“Khartoum is free, it’s done,” he said.
This is believed to be the first time Burhan has set foot in the presidential palace since the start of the war almost two years ago.
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Man City and Chelsea could earn £97m at Club World Cup
Manchester City and Chelsea could earn up to £97m in prize money from this year’s Club World Cup.
The overall prize fund, shared between all 32 teams based on different factors, will be £775m, with £407m divided between all participating clubs and £368m awarded on a performance-related basis.
By comparison, last season’s prize money in the Premier League, external ranged from £175.9m for winners City to the £109.7m earned by bottom-placed Sheffield United.
Money awarded for participation is weighted by a ranking based on sporting and commercial criteria, meaning European clubs will earn more for taking part than teams from other continents.
The top-ranked European team by Fifa’s metrics will receive £29.6m just for participating – and they would secure the maximum prize available of around £97m for winning all of their group-stage games and then going on to win the tournament.
A group-stage win will net a team £1.5m, with £5.8m for reaching the last 16, £10.2m for reaching the quarter-finals, £16.3m for reaching the semi-finals, and £31m for winning the final.
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USA: Trump officials attack journalist after Signal leak published in full
The White House reacted furiously on Wednesday after The Atlantic magazine published messages between national security officials in a Signal group chat in their entirety.
President Donald Trump called the reporting “all a witch hunt” and declared the publication a “failed magazine”.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who was inadvertently included in the chat among senior cabinet leaders, shared texts in which US defence secretary Pete Hegseth provided sensitive information such as detailed timetables and unit information ahead of a US strike in Yemen.
Goldberg said he decided to publish the information after the Trump administration accused him of lying that classified information was shared.
USA: China tariffs may be cut to seal TikTok sale- Trump
US President Donald Trump says he may cut tariffs on China to help seal a deal for short video app TikTok to be sold by its owner ByteDance.
Trump also said he is willing to extend a 5 April deadline for a non-Chinese buyer of the platform to be found.
In January, he delayed the implementation of a law passed under the Biden administration to ban TikTok.
The legislation, which was signed into law in 2024, cited national security grounds for the sell or be banned order.
USA: Trump official visits mega-jail holding deported Venezuelans
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has released a social media video filmed inside a controversial mega-prison in El Salvador, thanking the country and its president for “bringing our terrorists here and incarcerating them”.
Secretary Noem was in the country to tour the facility, where US officials recently sent 238 Venezuelans.
In a cell behind her as she spoke were dozens of bare-chested and tattooed Salvadoran members from the MS13 and the 18th Street gang.
The trip suggests President Trump does not intend to back down from his immigration policy in the face of an injunction, upheld by an appeals court, on removing the Venezuelans from US soil under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.