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A French pensioner has set out to cross the Atlantic inside a large barrel he has built from reinforced plywood, hoping to arrive on a Caribbean island within three months using only ocean currents to carry him along. "The weather is great – I’ve got a swell of one metre and I’m moving at two […]

OTTAWA — A pair of unexpectedly soft economic reports are creating fresh doubts about the timing of the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate hike. For months, experts have been predicting Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz to raise his benchmark rate at next month’s meeting. But broadening economic unknowns — mostly linked to trade […]

Saudi Arabia has strongly denounced US Senate resolutions which called for an end to American support for Saudi forces in Yemen and blamed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.    The kingdom released an unusually forceful statement after both Democrat and Republican senators defied the White House and voted through […]

The decision by Europe’s largest bank, HSBC, to halt funding for new projects in the oilsands has some wondering if other financial institutions, including U.S. banks and pension funds, will eventually follow suit — and what the impact that might have on Canada’s energy sector. HSBC last Friday became the latest European bank to announce […]

An American adventurer has won a grueling race against a British Army officer to become the first person to trek unaided across Antarctica. Colin O’Brady, 33, arrived on the coast of the Ross Sea on Wednesday after trekking nearly 1000 miles across the frozen continent, beating Capt Lou Rudd by hours.  Crossing onto the Ross […]

BEIJING — The United States and China hiked tariffs Friday on billions of dollars of each other’s goods, launching what Beijing called the “biggest trade war in economic history” in a spiraling dispute over technology. The Trump administration is confronting Beijing over development tactics it says include stealing or pressuring foreign companies to hand over […]

Post-Soviet Russia’s most notorious serial killer known as the "Angarsk Maniac" was given a second life sentence by a Siberian court on Monday after he was found guilty of killing 56 more victims over a period of 15 years. Mikhail Popkov worked as a police officer in the Siberian city of Angarsk and was sentenced […]

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 introduces a new system to the shooter series called Signature Weapons. These are cosmetic variations of the base weapons in the game, Activision said in a blog post, and they come with their own challenges and rewards. The publisher stressed the Signature Weapons do not have any game-altering stats, […]

OTTAWA — The economy lost 7,500 jobs in May as a drop in full-time employment was only partially offset by an increase in part-time jobs, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency reported the dip as the unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 per cent for the fourth consecutive month. Economists had expected an increase of […]

Click:13l x North Korea may have been exploiting collaboration with foreign scientists to bypass tough international sanctions and further its nuclear weapons programme, according to a new investigation.  An analysis released by the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, flags at least 100 journals published jointly by North Korean and foreign scientists […]