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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Europe on the weekend to attend summits on NATO and Canada-EU relations. The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Carney’s travel plans today, after he wrapped up the G7 leaders’ summit in Alberta.Carney will head to Brussels on Sunday to meet with European leaders.The Prime Minister’s Office said the leaders will work to “deepen the Canada-EU relationship across all sectors,” including trade and defence.Carney will then head to The Hague in the Netherlands for the NATO summit on Tuesday and Wednesday.The Prime Minister’s Office said Carney will engage…

US President Donald Trump has told reporters he will not say whether he has decided to order a US strike on Iran, a move that Iranian officials warned anew would be greeted with stiff retaliation if it happens.Speaking outside the White House, Trump declined to say whether he had made any decision on whether to join Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran.”I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do,” he said.Trump said Iranian officials had reached out about negotiations including a possible meeting at the White House but “it’s very late…

As Israel and Iran launch strikes against each other, a parallel propaganda war is taking place.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chester, has won the Democratic nomination for Virginia’s lieutenant governorship, according to The Associated Press. Hashmi, an immigrant from India, said on her campaign site that she is the only candidate “endorsed by both abortion rights groups and labor.”Hashmi was locked in a close race with the top two contenders, former Green Bay Packers safety Aaron Rouse and ex-Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney. Hashmi will face GOP nominee John Reid in the state’s general election in November.Stoney, who conceded on Wednesday, moved on to become mayor of Richmond, the capital…

Nintendo Switch 2 hits the shelves Nintendo’s first new console in 8 years is finally in stores, but before the first units were sold, Fox News got a sneak peak at some of the new games developed for the Switch 2. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Deputies in Colorado are searching for the people responsible for stealing $1.4 million worth of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles just days after the new video gaming system was released worldwide. The heist occurred at a truck stop the morning of June 8, Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said on X. “A semi-truck driver reported…

By Morgan Lowrie The Canadian Press Posted June 18, 2025 12:04 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal’s main bicycle rental company says it smashed past its all-time record during the recent public transit strike. BIXI Montreal says its bicycles made more than 80,000 trips a day during seven of the nine strike days, including more than 98,500 on June 11. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. The strike by 2,400 transit maintenance workers reduced…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading: Sunrun — Shares fell nearly 2% following a downgrade to sector perform from outperform by RBC Capital Markets. The stock on Tuesday recorded its biggest one-day loss in its history amid a sell-off in solar names. CERo Therapeutics Holdings — Stock in the immunotherapy company pulled back about 28%. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the company’s acute myeloid leukemia drug CER-1236 an orphan drug designation . Shares rose more than 188% on that news. Chemours — The chemical stock dropped about 1% after an updated second-quarter forecast showed…

Wall Street’s main indexes have ticked up as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision while the Israel-Iran attacks entered the sixth day.Investors will closely monitor Fed chair Jerome Powell’s comments to gauge how he plans to combat the risk of rising prices, which remains a dominant concern for the central bank.The Fed is expected to leave rates unchanged at its meeting, scheduled later in the day.”We’re still at the beginning stages of feeling that real income shock from higher tariffs in the United States, and the uncertainty effect builds up over time,” said Simon Dangoor, head of fixed…

BANGKOK: Thailand’s Bhumjaithai Party on Wednesday (Jun 18) withdrew from Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s government in a major blow to the embattled premier, leaving her ruling coalition with only a slim majority. The party, the second largest in the alliance and holder of 69 seats, said its departure was due to the impact on the nation of a leak on Wednesday of a phone call between Paetongtarn and Hun Sen, the influential former premier of Cambodia, with which Thailand is involved in an escalating border dispute. “Bhumjaithai will work with all Thai people to support the army and officials who…

Israel’s launch of air attacks against Iran on Friday prompted Tehran to fire a wave of retaliatory strikes on Israel, and some Iranian ballistic missiles have pierced through Israel’s missile defence systems and hit key targets. Israel’s escalating attacks have killed more than 240 people, including 70 women and children, in Iran. In retaliation, Iran has fired about 400 missiles and hundreds of drones, killing at least 24 people in Israel, wounding hundreds and forcing Israelis across the country to take cover in bomb shelters. Some Iranian strikes have hit residential areas in central Israel, causing heavy damage. Israel’s fortified military…