Donald Trump signed orders on Monday for new 50% tariffs on Canadian products including wine, dairy, hockey sticks, furniture and cement, taking effect August 19. The White House accused Ottawa of discriminating against US alcohol, autos and dairy, invoking Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act. Energy, potash, fish and critical minerals are exempt. PM Mark Carney's office has not responded.
A 43-year-old former US Army soldier, Andrew Arrabaca, was arrested on Monday after allegedly pouring gasoline and setting a fire outside 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, which houses ICE offices and immigration courts. Two federal employees and a civilian suffered minor injuries. Police said a sign reading 'ICE off our streets' was recovered. A federal terrorism task force is investigating.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters that mediators have proposed a 10-day ceasefire to give room for reviving last month's interim understanding with Washington, as fighting entered a second week. The Wall Street Journal named Qatar and Pakistan as the main brokers, with Qatar also seeking an end to shipping curbs in the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic has fallen to around 10 vessels a day.
The United States and Iran exchanged fresh strikes on Monday, with US deaths in the renewed fighting rising to three and more vessels attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. The contest over the shipping chokepoint pushed oil to a one-month high, Brent crude climbing above $91 a barrel, its strongest level since June 11, according to AFP.
Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested in any way while in the United States, responding to New York mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani has said he is unsure whether he can direct police to detain a foreign leader and is consulting his legal team before September's UN General Assembly.
A Dawn analysis of Pakistan's latest official household surveys puts the poverty rate at 28.9% in 2024-25, up from 21.8% in 2018-19 and the first such reading in nearly six years. Rural areas worsened most, rising about eight percentage points against six in cities. The report blames balance-of-payments crises, the pandemic and inflation, with wage-dependent families hit hardest.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said two Palestinian men were shot dead by Israeli forces on Monday when a group of settlers attacked a village in the occupied West Bank overnight. The Israeli military said its troops opened fire after being pelted with stones. One of those killed, Awda Farakhneh, 53, was buried in Deir Jarir, northeast of Ramallah.
Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran would pay many times over for every American service member killed, posting the warning on Truth Social and saying the instruction had gone to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs chairman Daniel Caine and military commanders. The Pentagon confirmed three US deaths over the weekend, two at a base in Jordan and one in northern Iraq.
Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni reached Islamabad on Monday evening leading a delegation that includes senior Revolutionary Guard commanders, with meetings expected with Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir. It coincides with a ninth consecutive night of US strikes on Iranian military sites, Iranian retaliation against Gulf states, and a reported mediator proposal for a 10-day ceasefire.
Yemen's Houthi movement said on Monday it was imposing an immediate maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia, which military spokesman Yahya Saree framed as retaliation for the blockade of Houthi-held ports and a strike on Sanaa airport. The group has not said how it would enforce this. Last week it fired missiles at Abha airport in southern Saudi Arabia.
Andy Burnham took office on Monday as Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade, speaking outside Downing Street of a new political and social model that shifts power from London to the regions. He called the change a circuit breaker. Keir Starmer, who led Labour to a landslide two years ago, leaves as the party's shortest-serving modern prime minister.
Pakistan's largest copper and gold mine, the Chinese-operated Saindak project, told the energy ministry on 29 June that militant attacks on transport routes could force it to stop within a month, the Financial Times reported. Saindak supplies most of Pakistan's roughly $750 million in copper exports. Barrick has separately delayed the $9 billion Reko Diq mine over security concerns.
Speaking to Fortune, FedEx chief executive Raj Subramaniam recalled overhearing his roommate turn down a FedEx interview in 1991, then phoning the recruiter himself to ask if he could send a resume. The IIT Bombay graduate, then finishing an MBA in Austin during a recession, joined in Memphis, led Asia-Pacific marketing from Hong Kong, and became CEO in 2022.
Russia's five-hour overnight assault on Sunday sent roughly 41 ballistic missiles, including Iskander-M and Zircon types, alongside more than 125 drones at Kyiv and other cities, killing at least six. Ukraine downed 108 drones and 18 missiles. Analysts read the mixed salvo as an attempt to swamp radars while Kyiv rations scarce Patriot interceptors. Moscow said it hit drone plants and fuel depots.
Andrew and Tristan Tate were detained in Miami on Saturday on a sealed US Marshals warrant after British prosecutors authorised further charges, taking their combined total to 59 counts involving seven alleged victims between 2010 and 2017. Both deny all allegations. A presidential pardon is not available, since that power reaches only US federal offences, not British charges.
In Sokoto, Maryam Aminu's 18-month-old was diagnosed with malnutrition for a second time in April, one of many children relapsing across northern Nigeria. The family's position worsened after February, when her husband Shehu lost his taxi-driving work as petrol prices spiked because of the war in Iran. Health and aid workers link rising cases directly to those knock-on costs.
Andy Burnham, 56, becomes Britain's seventh prime minister in just over a decade once Keir Starmer formally tenders his resignation to King Charles. The former Greater Manchester mayor called his election the most significant shift in British politics in 40 years and pledged to target the cost of living. Shabana Mahmood has overtaken Ed Miliband as favourite for finance minister.
A News18 analysis argues Pakistan faces compounding strain: Imran Khan's PTI in open confrontation with the military, JUI-F's Fazlur Rehman criticising Field Marshal Asim Munir, Baloch Liberation Army attacks near Gwadar, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement agitation, and protests in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Disputed February 2024 election results plus inflation and unemployment feed the anger, with analysts warning of wider unrest.
The Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Liberation and Exorcism in Makati, Metro Manila, is Asia's only dedicated exorcism centre, training Filipino priests alongside clergy from neighbouring countries. Rooms for visiting priests line its halls, leading to a chapel where the 400-year-old rite is performed. Father Jose Francisco Syquia said clergy from Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and India were already queuing for training.
US Vice-President JD Vance said his fourth child, a son named Alec Neel Vance, was born on Sunday morning, with Usha Vance and the baby both well. He thanked military doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center. Alec joins siblings Ewan, 9, Vivek, 6, and Mirabel, 4, and is reportedly the first child born to a serving Vice-President in over 150 years.