Donald Trump says he doesn’t think he will send military to take over Canada.
President Donald Trump again spoke about making Canada the 51st state of the United States as he gave an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press but he said it would not come to the point where he has to use military to take over Canada, but the same can’t be said about Greenland.
Trump said he would talk to Mark Carney about the issue once he comes to the White House. “You know why? We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year. We don’t need their cars. In fact, we don’t want their cars. We don’t need their energy. We don’t even want their energy. We have more than they do. We don’t want their lumber. We have great lumber. All I have to do is free it up from the environmental lunatics. We don’t need anything that they have. We’re giving them — I asked, I asked Mr Trudeau — who I call Governor Trudeau, not Prime Minister, Governor — I said, “Governor Trudeau, could I ask you one question? Why are we giving you $200 billion? Why are we subsidizing Canada?” If Canada was a state it wouldn’t cost us. It would be great.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to retaliate against the Houthis and their Iranian “masters” after the group launched a missile attack on the country’s main international airport.
A missile fired by the group from Yemen landed near Ben Gurion Airport, causing panic among passengers in the terminal building.
“Attacks by the Houthis emanate from Iran,” Mr Netanyahu wrote on X. “Israel will respond to the Houthi attack against our main airport AND, at a time and place of our choosing, to their Iranian terror masters.”
The Israeli military has called up tens of thousands of reservists to “intensify and expand” its operations in Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was “increasing the pressure” with the aim of returning hostages held in Gaza and defeating Hamas militants.
Under the plan, the military said it would operate in new areas and “destroy all infrastructure” above and below ground.
The Israeli security cabinet was expected to vote on the military expansion on Sunday, local media reported.
No Israeli hostages have been released since Israel resumed its offensive on 18 March after the collapse of a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. Israel and Hamas blamed each other for the end of the truce.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Syria it says to protect the Druze minority from violence by pro-government forces, a stance the Syrian Druze community rejects. Syrian forces have reached an agreement with Druze leaders to improve security, ending days of fighting.
Anthony Albanese, Australia’s current far-left Prime Minister, rode a wave of anti-Trump sentiment to victory against the conservatives, winning 81 of 150 seats. Meanwhile the conservative Liberal Party leader, Peter Dutton, lost his own seat.
Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a second term as prime minister on Saturday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters’ concerns about the influence of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The Australian Electoral Commission website projected Labor would win 81 of 150 seats in the House of Representatives, increasing its majority in Parliament, with 68 per cent of the vote counted.
Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative Liberal party, conceded defeat and the loss of his own seat — echoing the fate of Canada’s Conservative Party and its leader, Pierre Poilievre, whose election losses days earlier were also attributed to a Trump backlash.
Supporters at Labor’s election celebration in Sydney cheered and hugged each other as Albanese claimed victory and said his party would form a majority government. “Our government will choose the Australian way, because we are proud of who we are and all that we have built together in this country,” he told supporters.
“We do not need to beg or borrow or copy from anywhere else. We do not seek our inspiration from overseas. We find it right here in our values and in our people.”
Albanese would be the first Australian prime minister to win a consecutive term in two decades. He said Australians had voted for fairness and “the strength to show courage in adversity and kindness to those in need.”
Canada’s recently elected prime minister, Mark Carney, congratulated Albanese on social media, saying that “in an increasingly divided world,” Canada and Australia are close partners and “the most reliable of friends.”
A member of Canada‘s Parliament announced he would abandon his seat to ensure that Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre can run in a special election and return to the House of Commons.
Conservative MP Damien Kurek indicated on Friday that he would only be “temporarily” abandoning the seat of Battle River-Crowfoot in Alberta, which he handily secured reelection to on Monday with 82% of the vote.
“Although it will be hard to temporarily step away from this role, in this region I love and have always called home, the mandate given to me is one that clearly states that change is needed,” Kurek said.
“Offering this seat to our party leader is an important step in that process,” he added.
Poilievre praised Kurek for the “selfless” move and vowed to “earn the trust of the good people of Battle River-Crowfoot.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Friday that he is set to meet with US President Donald Trump at the White House next Tuesday.
Carney’s upcoming visit comes in the context of ongoing trade conflicts between the two countries, along with Trump’s threats to annex Canada as the 51st state of the US.
“On Tuesday, I had a very constructive call with President Trump, and we agreed to meet next Tuesday in Washington,” Carney said. “My government will fight to get the best deal for Canada.”
The financial payoff from a new minerals deal between Ukraine and the US is likely to take a decade or longer as investors face many hurdles to getting new mines into production in the war-ravaged country.
Developing mines that produce strategically important minerals in countries with established mining sectors such as Canada and Australia can take 10 to 20 years, mining consultants said on Thursday.
But most mineral deposits in Ukraine have scant data to confirm they are economically viable. Investors may also baulk at funnelling money into a country where infrastructure such as power and transport has been devastated by Russia’s three-year-old full-scale invasion and future security is not guaranteed.
“If anyone’s thinking suddenly all these minerals are going to be flying out of Ukraine, they’re dreaming,” said Adam Webb, head of minerals at consultancy Benchmark Minerals Intelligence.
Last week, Canadians voted in yet another Liberal government—the fourth in a row since 2015. The Liberals have proven themselves to be the most politically successful left-leaning party in the Western world over the past decade. In an age of populist conservative nationalism, they defy all odds. How do they keep doing it?
Let’s begin with a look at the past few months in Canadian politics, illustrated by three useful images.
Late last year, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval ratings dropped to around 20 percent. The Conservative Party opposition, led by Pierre Poilievre, made withering attacks on Trudeau’s Liberal government as incompetent, too far left, and out of touch. Canadian voters across the political spectrum viewed Trudeau as having badly mismanaged the economy. Polls predicted a 2025 Conservative Party landslide. The long-term trend appeared inexorable; the Liberals were doomed.
Prominent Liberal figures then did what ruthlessly effective political parties in the parliamentary tradition have always done—they stabbed their faltering leader in the back. On December 16th, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from the government, denouncing Trudeau as incompetent on fiscal matters. Since Freeland was the heir apparent to the Liberal Party leadership, jokingly referred to as “Minister of Everything,” this sent shock waves through the party like nothing else. But as so often happens in the Westminster system, the hand that wields the knife sometimes fails to pick up the crown.
Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in was indicted Thursday on bribery charges, accused of accepting illegal favours through a no-show job arranged for his then-son-in-law during his term in office.
Prosecutors say Moon received bribes worth 217 million won (€133,239) from Thai Eastar Jet founder Lee Sang-jik, who allegedly provided wages, housing, and other financial support to Moon’s former son-in-law between 2018 and 2020.
Lee, a former campaign associate of Moon’s, was also indicted for bribery and breach of trust.
The son-in-law was reportedly hired at Lee’s Thailand-based airline company in a director-level role despite having no aviation experience and carried out only minor duties while claiming to be working remotely from South Korea.
Myanmar’s regime has rejected a proposal by Bangladesh’s largest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, for the creation of an independent Rohingya state in Rakhine State.
Jamaat made the proposal during a meeting with a Communist Party of China (CPC) delegation in Dhaka on Sunday. China has not responded.
The Jamaat delegation’s leader Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher told reporters that around 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were enduring “inhumane conditions” and humanitarian aid was not a solution.
Simion heads to the second round of the Romanian Presidential Election as the clear favorite.
The Globalists’ nightmare is fast becoming a reality, as MAGA-influenced, right-winger George Simion – who is against military support for Ukraine and skeptical about the EU – won a major victory in the first round of ‘redo’ of the presidential election in Romania.
“George Simion came first with 40.96% of the vote, and will go into the runoff on 18 May as the clear favorite against the liberal mayor of Bucharest.
Nicusor Dan narrowly beat Crin Antonescu, candidate of the governing coalition, with just under 21% of the vote.”
Calin Georgescu and George Simion.
The presidential election in Romania was cancelled last December over unproven allegations of campaign fraud and Russian interference after Calin Georgescu had an unexpected landslide victory.
Puerto Rico withdrew its $1 billion climate lawsuit against the oil and gas industry on Friday following the Trump administration’s move to block two states from seeking legal damages for similar alleged environmental damages.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, the territory’s government said in the notice that it “voluntarily dismisses this entire case,” with no further elaboration as to why. President Donald Trump has repeatedly condemned state-level climate policies that impact domestic energy production, and on April 30, his Department of Justice (DOJ) filed two separate lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan after both states considered filing similar complaints against the oil and gas industry.
“This dismissal adds to the growing momentum among federal and state courts holding that states and municipalities cannot use state laws to sue over climate change,” Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP, counsel for Chevron Corporation wrote in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “These claims are precluded and preempted by federal law and must be dismissed under clear U.S. Supreme Court precedent.”
Dark clouds of smoke have been rising over Sudan’s wartime capital Port Sudan for two consecutive days.
A state of panic is building in the administrative centre that is home to tens of thousands of people seeking safety during two years of war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
This is the second RSF attack to target critical infrastructure in Port Sudan over 24 hours and is suspected to be another drone strike in a series of hits on army-held territory across the country.
On Sunday morning, Port Sudan airport was damaged by suicide drones that targeted a weapons depot in the military airbase in the vicinity of the airport.
Flights were temporarily suspended to the only international airport left in the country.