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At the onset of the First World War, Britain’s venerable foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, remarked that the lamps were going out all over Europe and “we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” The metaphor has long been considered as the unofficial epitaph to what at the …

In one notable speech, on one memorable trip, we saw the clearest ever outline of what one might call the Trump Doctrine in foreign policy. The current U.S. president doesn’t tend to indulge in grand theory talk, but he effectively laid one out in Saudi Arabia. It might be summed …

Newly named Foreign Minister Anita Anand accused Israel on Wednesday of using a lack of food as a political tool in its Gaza operation and urged further work on a ceasefire with Hamas, the militant group that controls the Palestinian enclave. Israel has sealed off the Gaza Strip since early …

इस्लामाबाद49 मिनट पहले कॉपी लिंक पाकिस्तान के विदेश ऑफिस ने कहा कि मोदी का भाषण पहले से तनावपूर्ण माहौल को और ज्यादा अस्थिर बना सकता है। (फाइल फोटो) पाकिस्तान के फॉरेन ऑफिस ने आज पीएम मोदी के आदमपुर एयरबेस पर दिए भाषण पर आपत्ति जताई है। पाकिस्तानी फॉरेन ऑफिस (PFO) …

Twice in two weeks, Surrey, B.C., immigration consultant Neera Agnihotri discovered her firm was listed on employment documents for foreign workers supposedly bound for B.C. The only problem: she had never heard of any of the prospective workers or the businesses wanting to hire them. “I was like, ‘No, this is not our client,'” Agnihotri …

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Harvard University will lose its ability to enrol foreign students if it does not meet demands from the Trump administration to share information on some visa holders, marking the government’s latest escalation against the educational institution. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi …

Prince Edward Island’s biggest community college is phasing out eight programs for the coming school year because of a drop in revenue from “a sharp decrease in the college’s international student enrolment.”  Holland College says three other programs are being downsized because enrolment numbers have dropped. Those programs were not …

A Brazilian man says he was misled into working illegally in Winnipeg based on the promise he would eventually get a work permit. Ighor Santos, 27, says he was ordered to leave the country after blowing the whistle on the man who recruited him and other foreign nationals for a construction job in the city’s …

Should Canada build a spy service to gather foreign intelligence via human sources? It’s a question worth asking as the country faces an increasingly unstable relationship with its next-door neighbour, from which Canada has long relied upon to glean key intelligence. Stephanie Carvin, a former national security analyst for the federal government, says …

The limits of U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of extremely personalized, belligerent diplomacy have never been more apparent than with the negligible outcomes this week involving two of the world’s deadliest ongoing conflicts. In Gaza, Israel’s military shattered the tenuous ceasefire on Tuesday by inflicting the largest number of deaths in a single …