Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau called on the Indian government to "work with us" in order to establish processes to uncover the truth of the matter. Trudeau, however, refused to provide the evidence that led him to accuse India...

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has demanded India treat with "utmost seriousness" allegations that Indian agents played a role in the June murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The fallout prompted tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions and a forceful denial from India, which said any suggestion it played a role in Nijjar's killing...

Media reports said that Canada worked closely with the US government and CIA before Prime Minister Justine Trudeau made public the allegation that Indian agents may have been involved in the murder of a Sikh leader in Canada.

The diplomatic spat has grown fierce in the hours since Canada blamed India for being behind the killing of a Sikh leader last June and expelled its intelligence chief from the country. New Delhi has followed suit, expelling a senior Canadian diplomat. In the meantime, the UK and Australia have...

The Breakthrough Prize awards "the world's most brilliant minds" in fields including life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics

The deal will make it North America's largest natural gas supplier.

Canada is suffering through its worst forest fire season in recorded history, with much of the country hit by high temperatures and serious drought. A total area of 15 million hectares (37 million acres) has now burned, an area larger than Greece.

The fund's capitalization follows a global "peace pact" signed by more than 190 nations at the Montreal COP 15 summit in December 2022 to protect nature and reverse decades of environmental destruction threatening the world's species and ecosystems. That deal pledged to secure 30 percent of the planet as a...

Zurich, Switzerland – The latest Global Wealth Report predicts global wealth to reach $629 trillion by 2027, despite 2022 being the first year of wealth decline since 2008, the fourteenth edition of the Global Wealth Report jointly launched on Tuesday by Credit Suisse and UBS revealed. According to the report’s...

Seen as a key culprit in the country's dramatic economic crash, former governor Riad Salameh's bank accounts were ordered to be frozen by Lebanon days after the the US, the UK and Canada slapped him with sanctions. The central bank has ordered the lifting of banking secrecy and the freezing...

Vancouver, Canada -  The United Arab Emirates has become the first Aarb country to be granted observer status at the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG).   A delegation from the UAE is participating with observer status in the plenary of the APG, a Financial Action Task Force style regional body...

Paris, France - The world's wealthiest nations must urgently prepare for the impact of an imminent "AI revolution" that will change jobs, create new ones and make others disappear, the OECD said Tuesday. The rapid development of artificial intelligence -- with tools that can generate essays, create images and even pass...

Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the UN's World Meteorological Organization, warned on Monday that El Nino "will greatly increase the likelihood of breaking temperature records and triggering more extreme heat in many parts of the world and in the ocean."

The wealth fund invests in Sagard alongside Bank of Montreal.

On Wednesday, Iran took Canada to the Hague-based International Court of Justice, the UN's top tribunal, accusing Ottawa of allowing victims of alleged terror attacks to claim damages from Tehran. Tehran's case claims that Ottawa, which listed the Islamic Republic as a sponsor of terrorism in 2012, had violated Iran's...

The UN's top tribunal said on Wednesday that Iran has taken Canada to the International Court of Justice for allowing victims of alleged terror attacks to claim damages from Tehran. Iran asked ICJ to make Canada overturn a law passed in the same year that allows victims to collect damages...

Montreal, Canada--The UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has signed a joint cooperation agreement to deepen collaboration. The agreement was signed by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Salami, Chairman, Department of Civil Aviation, in Fujairah, GCAA Deputy Board Chairman, and Juan Carlos Salazar, ICAO Secretary General. This came...

Brussels, Belgium -- The European Union approved a historic agreement banning harmful fisheries subsidies on Thursday, joining a small group of countries that include the United States. After more than two decades of negotiations towards banning subsidies that encourage overfishing and threaten the sustainability fish stocks worldwide, a deal, albeit...

On Wednesday, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said the two countries will "appoint new ambassadors". A Canadian foreign ministry statement named Jean-Phillipe Linteau as Ottawa's new envoy to the kingdom. The latest announcement follows a frenetic stretch of high-stakes Saudi diplomacy triggered by the kingdom's surprise Chinese-brokered rapprochement deal with Iran...

China said it had filed an official protest over breaches of international law and diplomatic norms, and accused Canada of "deliberately undermining relations". Relations between the two countries have soured since since the arrest of a top Huawei executive in 2018 in Canada and the detention of two Canadian nationals...

Amman, Jordan-- With an eye on boosting its exports to North America, a range of companies from Jordan will showcase their products at the 18th edition of SIAL Canada food fair, which will kick off in Toronto on Tuesday. The three-day event, which is one of the largest international food...

Fanned by strong winds wildfires flared across Alberta in the Canadian province, forcing 25,000 people to flee their homes as the province declared a state of emergency on Saturday to protect the "safety, health and welfare of Albertans." Thousands more have been told by the authorities to be prepared to...

Dubai, UAE— Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Xanadu, a Canadian quantum computing company, are considering strategic cooperation in order to develop solutions for enhancing the reliability of energy systems. In this regard, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), met with...

Tehran, Iran -- The West has intensified economic pressures on Iran in recent months and imposed nearly 800 sanctions on Iran since September last year alone, an Iranian expert has said. Mohsen Pakaeen, a foreign policy analyst, told the official Islamic Republic News Agency that US, Europe along with Canada...

LONDON, UK - The UK will conduct its first test of a new emergency alert service on Sunday, with millions of mobile phones set to emit a loud alarm and vibrate at 3:00pm (1400 GMT). The national system, modeled on similar schemes in Canada, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States,...

Charles and Camilla's grandchildren will take part in the ceremony, watched by more than 2,000 invited dignitaries -- a quarter of those in attendance in 1953.

Ottawa, Canada--Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday up to 13.2 billion Canadian dollars ($9.8 billion) in subsidies over 10 years for Volkswagen's first overseas battery plant, to be built in St. Thomas, Ontario. The production support matches incentives by US President Joe Biden's administration, as Washington's trading partners work to keep...

The SWFC will help identify opportunities for strategic capital collaboration and thought leadership between Canadian Public Pension Funds (PPFs) and UAE Sovereign Wealth Funds in global markets. It is set to offer an investment collaboration framework with a more dynamic and flexible structure, he adds.

Ottawa, Canada--US President Joe Biden on Friday said he believed China has not sent arms to Russia after President Vladimir Putin's forces invaded Ukraine. "I've been hearing now for the past three months (that) China is going to provide significant weapons to Russia... They haven't yet. Doesn't mean they won't, but...

Face-to-face talks between Biden and Trudeau covered a range of areas where both sides are pushing for improvements. A joint statement said that Biden and Trudeau agreed to modernizing their countries' joint air defense alliance, NORAD, with Canada putting billions of dollars into improved radar and fighter aircraft infrastructure.

Paris, France - France on Friday banned public-sector employees from downloading "recreational applications" on their work phones, the public services ministry said, with a ministerial source adding that Chinese-owned TikTok would be among them. Following bans of TikTok in other European countries, "the government has decided from now on to ban...

The central banks will step up so-called swap line operations, which give non-US central banks greater access to dollars. "To improve the swap lines' effectiveness in providing US dollar funding, the central banks currently offering US dollar operations have agreed to increase the frequency of 7-day maturity operations from weekly...

"Canada is committed to providing relief to those impacted by the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria," said Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.

Volkswagen is also setting up a series of battery plants in Europe - one will open in 2023 in Sweden, followed by one in Salzgitter, Germany in 2025 and the company has chosen Valencia, Spain for a third. Volkswagen said last year it planned to open a total of six...

Abu Dhabi, UAE--The Emirates Defence Companies Council (EDCC) and the Canadian Business Council (CBC) in Abu Dhabi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aimed at accelerating cooperation and identifying business opportunities in defence industries. The MoU was signed today at Tawazun Council Chalet in IDEX and NAVDEX 2023, currently held...

The Chinese-owned platform is under growing Western scrutiny, and Canada's move came just hours after the European Commission banned the app from all employees' work devices to "protect" the institution. The investigation was initiated "in the wake of now-settled class-action lawsuits in the United States and Canada, as well as...

ABU DHABI,  UAE - Speaker of the UAE Federal National Council Saqr Ghobash received the visiting Speaker of the Senate of Canada George Furey and his accompanying delegation at the FNC's headquarters in Abu Dhabi. Both sides discussed a number of issues of common interest, including  the development and activation...

Washington strenuously denied Beijing's charges as "false" and insisted it was China alone that has surreptitiously flown spy balloons, as tensions ramped up between the two superpowers. The downing of an alleged Chinese airship off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month prompted a resolution in the US Congress...

On Sunday the Pentagon said that it does not yet know what the other three objects -- one shot down Friday over Alaska, one Saturday over Canada's Yukon territory, and the most recent one Sunday over Lake Huron -- are. But it said that the object downed Sunday had been...

Contemporary stars including Justin Timberlake and Shakira have sold large stakes in their work - both also struck deals with Hipgnosis - but the move has mostly been seen among legacy artists like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. The staggering sums - Springsteen's catalog went to Sony for a reported...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – A  report launched Monday at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 shows how countries can accelerate the food systems transformation. The report Food Nature and Health Transitions - Repeatable Country Models reveals how actions and investments can accelerate a country’s transition towards food systems that deliver...

Many experts have also said the ban on foreign buyers -- who accounted for less than five percent of home ownership in Canada, according to the national statistical agency -- would not have the desired effect of making homes more affordable.

The UAE is the second leading trading partner of Canada in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the region in 2021.

MONTREAL, CANADA -  UAE Minister of Climate Change and the Environment  Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri participated in the High-Level Segment (HLS), the second part of the 15th UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), that took place in Montreal, Canada. The HLS, which took place from December 15-17, 2022, aimed to enable participating...

The enlarged competition represents a triumph for FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who made expanding the World Cup a priority after taking over as world football's supremo in 2016. The 16-team increase marks the biggest expansion in the World Cup's evolution. From 13 teams at the inaugural tournament in 1930, the...

MONTREAL, CANADA - A UN nature deal proposed Sunday calls to protect at least 30 percent of the planet by 2030 and asks rich countries to stump up $20 billion in yearly aid for developing nations to save their ecosystems. China, chairing the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal, presented a long-awaited...

Montreal, Canada-- Creating a new global fund for biodiversity -- a core demand of developing countries at UN talks in Montreal -- "would take years" and be less effective than reforming existing financial mechanisms, Canada's environment minister said Tuesday. Ottawa's position reflects the consensus among developed nations on the thorny issue,...

Delegates from across the world gathered for the December 7-19 meeting to try to hammer out a new deal for nature: a 10-year framework aimed at saving the planet's forests, oceans and species before it's too late.

Bank will use funds for core business, give cash to investors.

Firm is suffering from slowdown in China's economic growth.