China’s three-time Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang has filed a police report after being subjected to “large-scale” cyberbullying, his team said on Friday. Chinese swimmer Sun Yang. File photo: Olympics. Sun, 34, returned to competition in 2024 following a four-year…
Washington: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the withdrawal of about 5,000 troops from Germany within the next year, the Pentagon said on Friday, in the latest breakdown in transatlantic ties over the Middle East war. The move came…
As the province prepares to close the Luugat Single Room Facility (SRO) in Vancouver Granville Street until the end of June, it seems BC Housing doesn’t want the public to see inside the former hotel that taxpayers paid millions of…
Much ink has been spent in recent months on farmers’ concerns over the EU-Mercosur free trade deal coming into effect. temporarily on Friday after more than two decades of negotiations. It’s a marked departure from climate concern and calls to…
Kurt Deimer. Photo courtesy of Kurt Deimer. Rock singer and actor Kurt Deimer talked about his new album “A Grog is Born,” which is out May 8 via Bald Man Records. How did you approach the song selection process for…
David B Roberts for The Conversation London: Two months after the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz is still mostly closed. Shipping traffic is developing at a fraction of pre-war levels, with a patchwork of cease-fires, blockades and re-closures since…
The FDA is currently conducting a review of mifepristone, one of the most commonly prescribed forms of medication abortion, particularly via telehealth. (CN) – A Fifth Circuit panel further restricted access to abortion across the US on Friday and reinstated…
The world economy is at a crossroads. International trade is slowing, economic uncertainty is growing, and trade between the US and China – the world’s two largest economies – risks splitting. And it’s not just trade: the two countries are…
From supply chains to currency flows, geopolitical forces are rewriting the rules of corporate governance. Unsplash+ A new operating landscape is here. whether there are corporate boards that, as of spring 2026, have not acknowledged that geopolitics and geoeconomics have…
Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images “We don’t just have to create the habitat, we have to tell the story.” Mary Creagh and I meet in a side room at County Hall at one New statesman event in the last week…
