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Young Australian flyer Lachlan Kennedy has roared to an historic silver medal in the 60 metres at the world indoor championships, pipped agonisingly for gold after a blistering finish in China.The 21-year-old Queenslander, making a spectacular indoor debut, proved fastest over the final 10 metres but just couldn’t reel in Britain’s European champion Jeremiah Azu, who won in a photo finish by just one-hundredth of a second on Friday’s opening day in Nanjing.Kennedy’s 6.50 seconds was an Australian indoor record, and demonstrated that, following Gout Gout’s recent spectacular exploits, the country can boast more than one brilliant young men’s sprinter.Kennedy…

A hearing has been set for Friday afternoon to debate whether a federal judge in Washington acted correctly when he temporarily stopped the Trump administration last weekend from summarily deporting scores of Venezuelan immigrants under a powerful but rarely invoked wartime statute.The hearing, scheduled for 2:30 p.m. in Federal District Court in Washington, could also include some discussion about the Justice Department’s repeated recalcitrance in responding to the judge’s demands. He has been requesting information about two deportation flights in particular, which officials say carried members of a Venezuelan street gang, Tren de Aragua, to El Salvador.The judge, James E.…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Booby Food, an Alberta-based company specializing in breast milk freeze-drying, has had its licence suspended by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for failing to meet several regulatory requirements. On Wednesday, the CFIA announced that it had suspended Booby Food’s licence on March 5, which means the company can’t operate for now.There is no recall linked to the suspension. Get weekly health news Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday. The company’s Safe Food for Canadians licence was suspended because it “failed to comply with several regulatory…

Sudan’s army retakes the presidential palace in Khartoum, striking a blow to the Rapid Support Forces in a key symbolic victory.Sudan’s army and its supporters are celebrating across the country after troops recaptured the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum. Friday’s victory is perhaps the army’s most symbolic since launching a key counteroffensive against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in September last year. The RSF continues to control pockets in southern Khartoum, but has lost most of the capital since Sudan erupted into a civil war in April 2023. The development comes just days after RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan…

In June 1973, a C.I.A. employee wrote a memo at the request of William E. Colby, the agency’s director, listing various ways the C.I.A. had, to put it delicately, “exceeded” its charter over the years.The seven pages matter-of-factly described break-ins at the French Consulate in Washington, planned paramilitary attacks on Chinese nuclear facilities and injections of a “contaminating agent” in Cuban sugar bound for the Soviet Union. The memo ended with an offhand aside about John A. McCone, the agency’s former director.“Finally, and this will reflect my Middle Western Protestant upbringing, McCone’s dealings with the Vatican, including Pope John XXIII…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. FedEx — Shares tumbled more than 8% after the parcel delivery company slashed its full-year guidance , citing “weakness” in the U.S. industrial economy. FedEx now said to expect between $18 and $18.60 in earnings per share after certain exclusions, down from the range of $19 to $20 per share set earlier. United Parcel Service shares slid 1.5% in sympathy. Cleveland-Cliffs — The steel producer lost 2% after the Minnesota Star Tribune reported that Cleveland-Cliffs would temporarily idle two factories, resulting in hundreds of job cuts. That decision comes as automakers…

Jon Lewis has been axed as head coach of England women’s team, paying the price for their abject Ashes whitewash.The former England bowler’s position had been hanging by a thread ever since his side were thrashed 16-0 in their multi-format series in Australia at the start of the year.Having also overseen an error-strewn showing at last year’s T20 World Cup, where England were knocked out in the group stage, he has now been let go as part of a wide-ranging review by the England and Wales Cricket Board.Possible replacements will now be weighed up, with former captain Charlotte Edwards an…

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By Catherine Morrison The Canadian Press Posted March 21, 2025 8:17 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting Canada’s premiers Friday in Ottawa as the provinces grapple with the effects of Chinese and U.S. tariffs. The meeting is taking place just days before Carney is expected to launch a federal election campaign that would send Canadians to the polls as soon as April 28.The meeting with the premiers will be held this afternoon at the Canadian War Museum.Audrey Champoux, a spokesperson for Carney, said earlier this week the session…