Updated: Aug 14th, 2025 Image: Air Canada Instagram Following a notice from the Air Canada wing of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) representing 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge intending to strike work, Air Canada began a wind-down of its operations for three days from Friday. This follows CUPE’s...
Three people, including a senior citizen and an eight-year-old girl, lost their lives during Independence Day celebrations in Pakistan’s Karachi due to ‘reckless’ aerial firing, while more than 60 others sustained gunshot injuries, according to local media reports. The incidents occurred in different parts of the city. In Azizabad Block-8, an eight-year-old girl was struck...
Updated: Aug 13th, 2025 Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, was briefly taken offline from X on Monday after it claimed that Israel and USA were committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza. Upon being reinstated, the bot turned its criticism towards Musk, accusing him of censorship. The suspension led to conflicting explanations. Grok...
Updated: Aug 13th, 2025 Greece is battling dozens of wildfires across the country, forcing mass evacuations and damaging homes, farmland, and industrial facilities as extreme winds and heat hamper firefighting efforts. 82 wildfires in the past 24 hours, with 23 still active by nightfall Tuesday. Gale-force winds of up to nine on the Beaufort scale...
Updated: Aug 13th, 2025 The White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has approved a proposed rule that could change how H-1B visas for specialty occupations are allocated, according to a Bloomberg Law report. The decision suggests the regulation could be released soon for public review. The measure is expected to revive a Trump-era...
Following his declaration of a criminal emergency in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of approximately 800 National Guard personnel to the nation’s capital, according to reports. The move, announced Tuesday, also places the city’s police department under federal control for an initial period of up to 30 days, as permitted by...
Plane crash at Montana airport Four people escaped with minor injuries after a small aircraft crashed at Montana’s Kalispell City Airport on Monday afternoon (local time). According to the Kalispell city government, the incident occurred at around 2.08 pm when the plane, carrying four out-of-state occupants, lost control while attempting to land. The aircraft struck...
US President Donald Trump has extended the trade ceasefire with China for another 90 days, postponing what could have been another escalation in tensions between the world’s largest economies. Announcing the move on his Truth Social account on Monday, Trump said he had signed an executive order for the extension and confirmed that “I have...
Updated: Aug 12th, 2025 A shooting at a Target store in Austin, the capital city of the US state of Texas, left three people dead, authorities said. Austin police said in a social media post that the suspect had been detained. The shooting happened just on Monday around 2 pm local time (1900 GMT), said...
A local newspaper journalist was seriously injured after he was brutally assaulted in Bangladesh’s Kushtia district on Monday, local media reported. The incident unfolded in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia, where Firoz Ahmed, a correspondent of local daily ‘Daink Ajker Sutropat’ and joint general secretary of Upazila Press Club, was attacked with hammers, rods, and bricks....