North Korea’s foreign minister says U.S. President Donald Trump has declared war on North Korea, and that Pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down U.S. bomber planes even if they are not in the country’s airspace. CBC | World News
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Trump has made ‘our rockets’ visit’ to U.S. mainland inevitable, North Korean foreign minister says
North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told the United Nations on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump had made “our rockets’ visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable” by calling North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “rocket man.” CBC | World News
Read More »Kim Jong-un says U.S. president will ‘pay dearly’ for threats to North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says Donald Trump is “deranged” and the U.S. president will “pay dearly” for his threats, the North Korean state news agency reports. CBC | World News
Read More »Online Shopping Has Crushed U.S. Retail Industry, Toys ‘R’ Us Files For Bankruptcy Protection
After struggling to keep its customers against competition from the online shopping industry for more than 10 years, the largest toy chain store in America finally surrenders. Reportedly, Toys ‘R’ Us has filed for bankruptcy on Monday, Sept. 8 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond. Thus, ending the story of the toy store ...
Read More »‘The winds are merciless!’: Hurricane Maria batters Dominica, heads for U.S. Virgin Islands
Hurricane Maria swept over the small island of Dominica with catastrophic Category 5 winds overnight, starting a charge into the eastern Caribbean that threatens islands already devastated by Hurricane Irma and holds the possibility of a direct hit on Puerto Rico. CBC | World News
Read More »UN Security Council meets on North Korea as U.S. condemns ‘reckless’ test
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to meet in a closed-door session Friday afternoon after North Korea conducted its longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile earlier in the day, sending an intermediate-range weapon into the northern Pacific Ocean. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. judge presses Trump administration on Dreamer deadlines
A U.S. judge on Thursday repeatedly pressed the Trump administration to extend an October 5 deadline for some immigrants to reapply for the ‘Dreamer’ program that shielded from deportation children brought to the United States illegally by their parents. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. not obliged to defend Canada in event of North Korean missile attack, MPs told
The highest-ranking Canadian officer at Norad has demolished a long-held political assumption by telling a parliamentary committee the U.S. is under no obligation to defend Canada in the event of a ballistic missile attack. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. wants to insert a 5-year termination clause in renegotiated NAFTA agreement
The United States wants to insert a so-called sunset clause in NAFTA, which would terminate the agreement after five years unless the three member countries agree to extend it. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. Department of Justice won’t charge 6 officers in Freddie Gray’s death
The U.S. Department of Justice won’t bring federal charges against six police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a young black man whose death touched off weeks of protests and unrest in Baltimore. CBC | World News
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