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A new round of U.S. tariffs hitting Canada’s auto sector is now in effect as President Donald Trump escalates his global trade war that has rattled markets and threatened industries across the world. At the same time, automaker Stellantis announced that it is halting production on its Windsor, Ont., manufacturing facility for two weeks.“Please be advised that production for the weeks of April 7, 2025 and April 14, 2025 are cancelled. Production employees must not report to work unless directed by their supervisor,” said a notice from Stellantis to employees, posted to social media by Unifor Local 444.Stellantis said the…

Lewis Hamilton has expressed his total confidence in Ferrari after the Italian Formula One team’s double disqualification in China.The cars of seven-time world champion Hamilton and teammate Charles Leclerc failed post-race technical checks at the second round of the season in Shanghai after they finished sixth and fifth respectively.”I saw someone said something about whether I’m losing faith in the team, which is complete rubbish,” Hamilton, winner of the Shanghai sprint race, told reporters on Thursday ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix.”I have absolute 100 per cent faith in this team,” added the 40-year-old Briton, who joined in January from…

GROWING COMPLEXITY OF TRADING WITH US In many instances, these new reciprocal tariffs are stacked on top of an array of existing tariffs. China is particularly badly hit by this approach, as firms will need to include any existing Section 301 tariffs from the first Trump term (often up to 25 per cent), another 20 per cent imposed earlier this year under Trump 2.0, before adding the latest 34 per cent reciprocal tariff.  The US has begun collecting 25 per cent tariffs on all products of steel and aluminium or made with these metals. For these categories of goods, reciprocal…

Syria accused Israel on Thursday of trying to destabilize the country after intense airstrikes on military bases and a deadly raid in southern Syria, part of a deepening incursion that is sharply raising tensions in the region.Since the Assad regime was ousted from Syria last year in a rapid rebel offensive, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes and has deployed forces into southern Syria, in what it says are necessary security operations against potentially hostile forces. Israel’s latest ground incursion, which appeared to be one of the deepest and deadliest into Syria so far, sparked further outrage among some…

This is my fifth annual NFL mock draft based on all the intel I’ve gathered from speaking to dozens of college coaches and NFL sources during the past two months.My goal with this project is to provide unique insight directly from the eyes of rival coaches who have not only studied and scouted these prospects but game-planned for and then faced each of them — in many cases, more than once. Those sources, granted anonymity to speak freely about the prospects, know exactly what they’re dealing with and what they’ve tried to do against these players in real-game situations.(Note: An…

FIRST ON FOX: An article on the Washington Post’s newspaper cover highlighting DOGE opposition from Republican and Independent protesters at an event in Alabama failed to point out that several protesters featured in the story were Democrat donors who have espoused left-wing and anti-Trump views on social media.”Constituents hunt for answers from GOP congressman,” a Washington Post headline last week, which also ran online with the headline, “Republicans, independents crave answers from GOP congressman in Alabama,” read along with a story explaining how protesters are upset with GOP Rep. Dale Strong about DOGE.Despite framing the story as amplifying criticism from…

A half-dozen pediatric doctors and toxicology experts said on Thursday that jurors were misled by prosecutors who cited unreliable insulin tests during the trial of Lucy Letby, a nurse convicted of murdering seven babies at a British hospital.The doctors made their assertions in a new report that Ms. Letby’s lawyer submitted to Britain’s Criminal Cases Review Commission, which is responsible for investigating possible miscarriages of justice, in the hopes of being allowed to pursue a full appeal of her 15 life sentences.Ms. Letby, who worked as a nurse in a neonatal unit at a hospital in northern England, was found…

Poor weather conditions have forced the renewed search for missing flight MH370 to be suspended until the end of the year, Malaysia’s government says.

HOW SHOULD ASEAN COUNTRIES REACT?  Malaysia, which will see its exports to the US get hit by a 24 per cent levy, appears to be holding fire on any pushback for now and is “not considering retaliatory tariffs”.  It will instead “seek solutions that will uphold the spirit of free and fair trade”, according to the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI).  “To mitigate the tariff impact, Malaysia is expanding our export markets by prioritising high-growth regions and leveraging existing free trade agreements, including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership,” the…

Ben Mbarek, along with about 40 other critics of the president, is being tried on state conspiracy charges.A jailed Tunisian opposition activist facing state conspiracy charges has launched a hunger strike to protest against being barred from appearing in person at his own trial, according to his defence team. Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, member of the opposition National Salvation Front and Citizens Against the Coup group which oppose President Kais Saied, insists on his right to be present in court to “refute the false charges” against him, lawyer Samir Dilou said in a statement on Facebook on behalf of Ben Mbarek’s…