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General Motors is laying off 700 workers at its Oshawa Assembly plant as it makes changes to shifts due to U.S. tariffs, the president of the union representing workers said Friday.  The plant, which employs roughly 3,000 people, is moving from a three-shift to a two-shift operation starting this fall, according …

Iran’s president on Sunday visited those injured in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports, a facility purportedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant. The visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian came as the death toll from Saturday’s …

South Korean prosecutors indicted former liberal president Moon Jae-in on bribery charges on Thursday, saying that a budget airline gave his son-in-law a lucrative no-show job during Moon’s term in office.  Moon’s indictment adds him to a long list of South Korean leaders who have faced trials or scandals at …

The timing couldn’t be better for Chinese President Xi Jinping as he wraps up a tour of three countries in Southeast Asia amid growing tariff pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump. “It’s a very smart move,” said Gil Lan, an associate professor in the law and business department at the Ted …

China staged military drills off Taiwan’s north, south and east coasts on Tuesday as a “stern warning” against separatism and called Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te a “parasite,” as Taiwan sent warships to respond to China’s navy approaching its shores. The exercises, which China has not formally named unlike war games …

South Korea’s Constitutional Court reinstated Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to the post of acting president on Monday, striking down his impeachment as he pledged to focus on steering Asia’s fourth-biggest economy through a U.S. trade war. The ruling, which comes amid months of political turmoil in the country, returns Han …

Behind closed doors inside a resort in western Greece, International Olympic Committee members made history by electing the first female president of the world’s largest sporting organization. Kirsty Coventry will become the IOC’s 10th president after members from across the world cast their secret vote and tabbed the 41-year-old on …

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa scrambled on Sunday to contain some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers. The clashes, which a war monitoring group said have already killed 1,000 people, mostly civilians, continued for …

South Korea’s impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison on Saturday, a day after a Seoul court cancelled his arrest to allow him to stand trial for rebellion without being detained. After walking out of a detention centre near Seoul, Yoon waved, clenched his fists and bowed deeply …

Mexico appears to be taking a two-track approach to threats from the Trump administration: giving them what they want in terms of cracking down on fentanyl-trafficking cartels, while firing a shot across their bows when it comes to interfering directly in Mexico. And that approach appears to have the support …