Cancelled and delayed Air Canada flights are seen on the departure board at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval, Que., Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. File | Photo Credit: AP Air Canada faced a midnight deadline Friday to avert a flight attendants strike that would shut down service, creating summer travel chaos for the carrier’s … Read more
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa. File | Photo Credit: AP President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to come together to find solutions to the country’s many problems, launching on Friday a months-long “national dialogue” dismissed by critics as a costly talk shop. The nationwide public consultation comes with Africa’s most industrialised nation still grappling with … Read more
A strike by the carrier’s flight attendants could disrupt 130,000 travelers a day, including international fliers. Here’s what to know if your flight is affected. Source link
Their union says one of its core demands, to receive pay for groundwork, is unlikely to be introduced in arbitration. The airline began canceling flights ahead of the potential strike. Source link
People leave the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne on August 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP A senior lawyer in Australia has apologised to a Judge for filing submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and non-existent case judgments generated by artificial intelligence. The blunder in the Supreme Court of Victoria state … Read more
The nation’s capital challenged President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday (August 15, 2025), hours after his administration stepped up its crackdown on policing by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department, with all the powers of a police chief. District of Columbia Attorney General … Read more
More than 470 million Indigenous Peoples live across the world, distributed across 90 countries and splintered into unique communities with their own culture and traditional knowledge. Although they make up less than 6% of the world’s population, indigenous individuals account for at least 15% of the poorest individuals in the world. As new, often disruptive … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday (August 14, 2025) he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a deal about his war on Ukraine, and that the threat of sanctions against Russia likely played a role in Moscow’s decision to seek a meeting. Mr. Trump is scheduled to meet with Mr. Putin in Alaska … Read more
Lebanon’s Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Kassem. | Photo Credit: Reuters The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group on Friday (August 15, 2025) vowed not to disarm, saying last week’s decision by the national government to remove the Iran-backed group’s weapons by the end of the year serves Israel’s interests. Naim Kassem said the government’s … Read more
Rescuers and local residents attend a rescue operation at the site of a massive cloudburst led to flash flooding in Salarzai, in Bajaur district, in northwestern Pakistan, on August 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Flash floods triggered by heavy rains killed at least 49 people in northwestern Pakistan and elsewhere in the country over … Read more
