7 h. ago Moment Trump is savagely cut off by Canada's Mark Carney showcases tense power struggle amid 51st state drama

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney savagely ended President Donald Trump's back-and-forth with reporters Monday, as the two leaders kicked off the start of the G7 Summit with a bilateral meeting.

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7 h. ago G7 leaders struggle for unity: Trump warns kicking Russia out was a mistake and sparked Putin's invasion of Ukraine

Tensions erupted at the G7 summit after Donald Trump sensationally claimed that expelling Russia from the group in 2014 was a 'big mistake' and even blamed it for Vladimir Putin 's invasion of Ukraine.

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10 h. ago Trump says ‘was mistake’ to boot Putin from G7 as he trashes Trudeau with Canadian PM Carney standing beside him

President falsely accuses Trudeau of ousting Russia from the G8 in 2014 even though he would not become Canada’s head of government until November 2015

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11 h. ago Live: Trump and world leaders attend G7 summit against backdrop of trade war tension and Middle East conflict

Watch live as Donald Trump meets Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as he attends the G7 summit in Alberta on Monday (16 June).

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16 h. ago G7 summit on wildfire watch for Trumpian explosions in Canada

Wildfires are on the agenda in Kananaskis, but with the world ablaze, all eyes are on the human flame-thrower AKA the US presidentA bright spark in the Canadian team preparing the G7 Kananaskis summit, in the ridiculously beautiful Canadian Rockies, decided to insert the issue of wildfires onto a crowded agenda. It seemed an eminently sensible and Canadian thing for the eminently sensible Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, to do.After all there are currently an estimated 225 blazes in Canada, including 120 classified as out of control, and they are raging to the west in British Columbia across to northern parts of Alberta. Indeed it is likely to be Canada’s second worst year on record for wildfires. Moreover, Carney had an ingenious solution ready to hand – a Kananaskis wildfire charter including “greater equipment interoperability” between the G7 members. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on Israel’s shock attack on Iran: confusing US signals add to the peril | Editorial

The recklessness of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the incoherence of Donald Trump’s deepen the crisis in the Middle EastUS presidents who thought they could easily restrain Benjamin Netanyahu have quickly learned their lesson. “Who’s the fucking superpower?” Bill Clinton reportedly exploded after his first meeting with the Israeli prime minister.Did Donald Trump make the same mistake? The state department quickly declared that the devastating overnight Israeli attack on Iran – which killed key military commanders and nuclear scientists as well as striking its missile capacity and a nuclear enrichment site – was unilateral. Mr Trump had reportedly urged Mr Netanyahu to hold off in a call on Monday, pending US talks with Iran over its nuclear programme due this weekend. The suspicion is that Israel feared that a deal might be reached and wanted to strike first. But Israeli officials have briefed that they had a secret green light from the US, with Mr Trump only claiming to oppos...

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7 d. ago Canada plans to hit NATO spending target early and reduce reliance on US defense, Carney says

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will meet NATO’s military spending guideline by early next year

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8 d. ago Elon Musk believes he has made Donald Trump 'mistake', dad Errol claims

Elon Musk's dad Errol claimed his son was prepared to admit he had 'made a mistake' after lashing out against US President Donald Trump during their public fallout

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8 d. ago Elon Musk has 'PTSD from the White House' and believes he's 'made a mistake' by helping Donald Trump get reelected, his father Errol claims

Errol Musk, 79, was speaking about his son's epic fallout with the US President after arriving in Moscow to speak at a forum organised by Vladimir Putin 's closest aides.

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9 d. ago Donald Trump and Elon Musk urged to bury hatchet as feud sparks 'nuclear fear'

US vice president JD Vance has said Elon Musk is making a "huge mistake" going after Donald Trump as Republicans have urged the two billionaires to bury the hatchet

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9 d. ago JD Vance says Elon Musk’s attack against Trump is a ‘huge mistake’

Vice-president was interviewed by comedian Theo Von, who also asked him if he ‘got high’ on election nightJD Vance said Elon Musk was making a “huge mistake” going after Donald Trump in a storm of bitter and inflammatory social media posts after a falling-out between the two men.But the vice-president, in an interview released on Friday after the very public blowup between the world’s richest person and arguably the world’s most powerful, also tried to downplay Musk’s blistering attacks as an “emotional guy” who got frustrated. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kilmar Ábrego García returned from El Salvador to face criminal charges in US

Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador indicted on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people, says BondiUS politics – live updatesKilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday to face criminal charges.In a press briefing on Friday, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, said that a federal grand jury in Tennessee had indicted the 29-year-old father on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people as well as of conspiracy to commit that crime. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Carney invites Modi to G7 summit despite strained ties between Canada and India

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit in Alberta later this month

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2 w. ago Trump tells Powell Fed is making a ‘mistake’ by not cutting interest rates

Central bank chair meets president at the White House to discuss economic expectations

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2 w. ago Trump tells Powell Fed is making a ‘mistake’ by not cutting rates

Central bank chair meets president at the White House to discuss economic expectations

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2 w. ago King Charles and Mark Carney arrive at the state opening of Canadian parliament as monarch gets set to make history with address

Amid pomp and pageantry not seen for more than half a century, King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived at Canada 's Parliament today.

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3 w. ago Trump uses photos from wrong country as evidence of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

Trump appeared to mistake an article about violence in the DRC for the ‘burial sites of white farmers’ in South Africa

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3 w. ago Canada is talking to the US about joining its ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system, Carney says

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is talking to the U.S. about joining President Donald Trump’s future Golden Dome missile defense program

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4 w. ago Pope Leo XIV to hold inaugural mass at St Peter’s Square in front of 250,000

World leaders to attend papal mass in Rome as first US pontiff receives fisher’s ring and wool palliumAn estimated 250,000 pilgrims and a host of world leaders and royals, including the US vice-president, JD Vance, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, and Britain’s Prince Edward, are expected to attend St Peter’s Square for the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV.The service, which begins on Sunday at 10am local time, marks the official start of the papacy of the first US pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic church. Continue reading...

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