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World-famous Canadian murder mystery writer Louise Penny has cancelled a U.S. tour for her latest book, citing President Donald Trump’s repeated threats of a trade war against Canada and annexation. Penny announced the move on social media, saying it was “a painful decision” because of the many friends and professional acquaintances she’d made in the U.S. after touring there for 20 years.“Please understand this decision is not meant to punish Americans. This is about standing shoulder-to-shoulder with my fellow Canadians,” Penny stated in a long, thoughtful message to her fans.Penny is the author of the beloved Chief Inspector Gamache police…

Ousmane Dembele has come off the bench to score twice and help a shaky Paris Saint-Germain win 4-1 at Rennes to stay unbeaten in Ligue 1.Bradley Barcola got one goal and set up another as PSG moved 16 points ahead of second-placed Marseille, who conceded an added-time goal in a 1-0 home defeat to Socceroos goalkeeper Mat Ryan’s Lens in the late game.Third-placed Nice can move level on points with Marseille if they beat Lyon at home on Sunday.Ryan, who joined Lens from Roma in the January transfer window, stopped a close-range volley from Brazilian winger Luis Henrique in the…

“NOT OVER” Some demonstrators their directed ire at US President Donald Trump. In Paris, women from the Femen activist group marched topless with either the US or the Russian national flag, marked with a swastika, painted on their chests. Dozens of women have alleged the Republican sexually abused them, and his administration has been accused of pushing through anti-women policies. “This is a battle, it’s not over,” said 49-year-old Sabine, who was marching with her seven-year-old son in Paris, where organisers put turnout at around 250,000. Police gave a figure of 47,000. “We’re going in the right direction: Trump, the…

South Sudan has seen an “alarming regression” as clashes in recent weeks in the country’s northeast threaten to undo years of progress towards peace, the United Nations commission on human rights for the country has warned. The statement on Saturday from Yasmin Sooka, chairperson of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, comes amid a spate of violence between security forces overseen by President Salva Kiir and an armed group his government has alleged is linked to First Vice President Riek Machar. The situation has put in peril the pair’s fragile power-sharing agreement reached in 2018 to end…

Officials staffing the U.S. legal immigration system have been asked to volunteer to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, according to an internal notice obtained by CBS News, another sign the Trump administration is prioritizing deportation efforts.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) employees were asked this week to sign up for 60-day assignments — or what the government calls “details” — to assist ICE, the agency charged with carrying out President Trump’s mass deportation promise.The assignments, which could be extended beyond 60 days, are slated to start on March 10 and are planned for different states, according to the…

Columbia University appears to be ready and willing to work with President Donald Trump and his administration. The university’s interim president. Katrina Armstrong, issued a letter on Friday in response to the Trump administration cutting $400 million in federal grants to the school. Federal agencies that severed their ties with Columbia said it was because of the Ivy League institution’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”Armstrong says in her letter that the funding cuts will “immediately impact research and other critical functions,” but she does not dismiss the Trump administration’s claims. Rather, Armstrong writes that…

The Department of National Defence has awarded an $8-billion deal to Irving Shipbuilding to start building three new destroyers for the Royal Canadian Navy, the Liberal government said Saturday. Defence Minister Bill Blair said the new destroyer project will be the largest and most complex shipbuilding effort undertaken in Canada since the Second World War. It will create more than 5,000 jobs in Halifax and across the country, Blair added.The $8 billion pays for only the first six years of construction work on the three new ships, however.Military planners now estimate the total cost to outfit and launch the three…

Christian Pulisic has proved the hero for AC Milan with his two goals helping the Rossoneri end a three-match losing streak in Serie A.Pulisic first earned and converted a penalty to level the score at 2-2 after hosts Lecce had been leading 2-0. The United States international — who is nicknamed “Captain America” — then scored the late winner in a 3-2 victory.The result saw Milan inch up to eighth in the Italian league, while Lecce remained 16th and three points above the relegation zone.City rivals Inter defeated bottom club Monza later on Saturday, but did it the hard way…

Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think globally” food movement, died on Friday at her home in Piermont, NY., in Rockland County. She was 96.Her death, from congestive heart failure, was announced by Pamela A. Koch, an associate professor of nutrition education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where Ms. Gussow, a professor emeritus, had taught for more than half a century.Ms. Gussow was one of the first in her field to emphasize the connections between farming practices and consumers’ health. Her book “The Feeding Web: Issues in…

Two men, barefoot and wearing traditional loincloths around their waists, tussled with each other on a stage transformed to look like a sumo ring.A fighting consultant, who had been observing the rehearsal nearby, stepped in to offer advice: The men’s arm movements were too straight; their motions needed to be smoother and more circular. Moments later, the two actors were at it again: reaching out, shifting their weight and then pushing off each other in a grappling exchange.New York theatergoers have seen it all, including shows about sports — which are not uncommon. But rarer, nonexistent even, is a theatrical…