Air Canada to resume flights after directive ending strike

Air Canada to resume flights after directive ending strike

An empty Air Canada bag drop area is shown as Air Canada flight attendants strike at Montreal–Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Air Canada plans to resume flights on Sunday (August 17, 2025) after the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) acted on a directive from the country’s Jobs … Read more

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits Indonesia; at least 29 people injured

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits Indonesia; at least 29 people injured

Indonesia is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the “Ring of Fire”, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters A magnitude 5.8 undersea earthquake shook the eastern side of Indonesia on Sunday (August 17, 2025) morning, injuring … Read more

‘Planting food, not violence or hate’: Brazil’s Lula razzes Donald Trump over tariff-hit grapes

'Planting food, not violence or hate': Brazil's Lula razzes Donald Trump over tariff-hit grapes

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday (August 17, 2025) he hopes U.S. President Donald Trump can come and get to know the real Brazil, as the South American powerhouse reels from Washington’s 50% tariffs. In a video taken while … Read more

China hands over third Hangor-class submarine to Pakistan

China hands over third Hangor-class submarine to Pakistan

Officials of the Pakistan Navy and the China Navy during the launching ceremony of the third Hangor-class submarine in Wuhan, China, on August 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: Facebook/Director General Public Relations Navy China has delivered the third of the eight new “advanced” Hangor-class submarines to Pakistan as part of Beijing’s efforts to upgrade Islamabad’s … Read more

Passenger train derails in Pakistan’s Punjab; 1 killed, several injured

Passenger train derails in Pakistan’s Punjab; 1 killed, several injured

At least one person was killed and several others injured on Sunday (August 17, 2025) when four carriages of a passenger train derailed in Pakistan’s Punjab province, according to a media report. The derailment occurred near the province’s Lodhran railway station, Geo News reported. The train was travelling from Peshawar to Karachi at the time … Read more

Hurricane Erin intensifies offshore, lashes Caribbean with rain

Hurricane Erin intensifies offshore, lashes Caribbean with rain

Jamie Rhome, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, gives an update on Tropical Storm Erin at the National Hurricane Center, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Miami. | Photo Credit: AP Hurricane Erin rapidly strengthened offshore to a “catastrophic” Category 5 storm on Saturday (August 16, 2025), as rain lashed Caribbean islands and weather officials … Read more

Military airstrike on gem mining town kills at least 21 in Myanmar

Military airstrike on gem mining town kills at least 21 in Myanmar

Ta’ang National Liberation Army officers. File. | Photo Credit: AP An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on the town of Mogok, the centre of the Southeast Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people including a pregnant woman, an armed opposition group, local residents and Myanmar’s online media said on Saturday (August 16, … Read more

In letter to Putin, U.S. First Lady asks him to consider the children in push to end war in Ukraine

In letter to Putin, U.S. First Lady asks him to consider the children in push to end war in Ukraine

First lady Melania Trump, left, watches as President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin welcome each other. | Photo Credit: AP Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday (August … Read more

Hurricane Erin explodes in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic near Caribbean Islands

Hurricane Erin explodes in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic near Caribbean Islands

Hurricane Erin exploded in strength to a Category 5 storm in Atlantic waters just north of the Caribbean on Saturday (August 16, 2025), rapidly powering up from a tropical storm in a single day, the National Hurricane Centre said. While the compact hurricane’s centre was not expected to strike land, it threatened to dump flooding … Read more