Canadian businesses seek certainty in US tariff war
Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News, Toronto Getty Images Deal or no deal, what Wes Love wants is certainty. His Toronto-area business, Taurus Craco, imports machinery from overseas and distributes it…
On the ground in Venice for Jeff Bezos’s glitzy wedding
Reporting from Venice, BBC Rome correspondent Sarah Rainsford says protests against the lavish wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his new wife are continuing. Celebrity wedding guests have descended…
Southern Europe swelters as heatwave spreads
Health and fire warnings have been issued in countries across southern Europe, with temperatures expected to exceed 40C in some places over the weekend. Italy, Greece, France, Spain and Portugal…
Trump on a high after ‘tremendous’ wins at home and abroad
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, at the White House Getty Images Donald Trump’s week began with an on-air expletive as he lost his cool over his mounting frustrations with Iran…
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ advances, but still faces Republican dissent
Senate Republicans have narrowly advanced a sprawling budget bill that is pivotal to President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda ahead of a self-imposed 4 July deadline. The Senate moved 51-49 to…
Iran could start enriching uranium for bomb within months, UN nuclear chief says
Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again – for a possible bomb – in “a matter of months”, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has said. Rafael…
Queen of Katwe’s gambit still in play for Uganda’s slum chess players
Wycliffe Muia BBC News, Kampala Robert Katende For more than two decades, Robert Katende has been getting children in Katwe to take chess seriously A famous chess club in a…
Thousands rally to call for Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra to resign
Reuters Thousands of protestors have gathered in the Thai capital Bangkok, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra after a phone call she had with the former Cambodian…
I feel like the life I had before the war was all made up
BBC “I don’t think God intended for people in their late 20s to live with their parents,” Hanya Aljamal says. She’s hanging out on the balcony of the tiny apartment…
Serbia police clash with protesters calling for early election
Stuart Lau & James Chater BBC News Watch: Violent clashes break out during protests in Belgrade, Serbia Serbian police have clashed with a huge crowd of anti-government protesters demanding an…