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US stocks hit fresh records as oil stabilizes on rising supplies

Stock markets firmed Tuesday with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 hitting record highs in the United States, as oil prices retreated on easing supply worries, which helped temper concerns about rising government borrowing costs. On Wall Street, the technology-focused Nasdaq index advanced 0.5 percent to a new high, coming off a record set on Monday […]

Quebec’s incoming separatist leader wants to block Crown from swearing-in

Quebec’s incoming separatist premier said Tuesday he plans to block the province’s lieutenant governor, a representative of the British Crown, from swearing in the new government. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon leads the separatist Parti Quebecois, which is returning to power after 12 years in opposition following an election win on Monday. The PQ is committed to […]

Trump blames France unrest on Islam, migration

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blamed France’s mass student protests on Islam and migration, pushing his global right-wing narrative ahead of tough midterm elections at home.”What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network.”This isn’t about schools, this is about […]

Nobel winner Halzen says years of October ‘misery’ finally over

Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades — but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag the biggest award of them all left him “miserable,” he admits.”It’s a great relief for me, because this was not totally unexpected,” he told a press conference Tuesday at the […]

Exiled Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont cleared to return to Spain

A Spanish judge on Tuesday lifted an arrest warrant for exiled former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, paving the way for his return to Spain ahead of a general election in November. Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium after Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, hailed the decision as a “very special” moment, saying it marked the […]

Caribbean tourism hotspot loses men to Russian war machine

Halfway around the world from Russia, in a Caribbean tourism hotspot, men, both young and old, are being lured by Moscow with tantalizing job offers, only to find themselves en route to the front lines in Ukraine. Both Moscow and Kyiv have recruited thousands of foreign nationals into their armies since Russia launched its invasion […]

‘Gen Z has risen up’: Tens of thousands demand better education in France

A quarter of a million demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday as unions and teachers joined high school students demanding better learning conditions in protests that later descended into sporadic clashes with security forces. Students have blocked the entrances to hundreds of high schools for 15- to 17-year-olds since late September, complaining […]

Yemen’s Houthis claim attack on Riyadh airport, deny losing territory

Yemen’s Houthis claimed an attack on the Saudi capital’s main airport and on Tuesday denied being pushed back by government forces, who have launched a major operation to recapture lost territory. The Houthi statements come as Yemen’s military said it had removed the pro-Iran group from areas around the Bab al-Mandab strait, a Red Sea […]

Iceland is ‘critical outpost’ for security, says Rubio during visit

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio  said Tuesday that Iceland had long been a “critical outpost” for security during a visit to the island, as his country pushes for greater American influence in the Arctic region. His trip came after US President Donald Trump has stirred up the power balance in the region by making […]