The Trump administration is discussing additional trade penalties against Canada after Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled dollar-for-dollar retaliation to new tariffs imposed by the US on Saturday.

The Canadian Finance Minister and Canadian Minister of Industry spoke on Canada's retaliatory tariffs on the US.

Canada is retaliating against the Trump administration with counter-tariffs targeting more than 700 products, putting its hardest squeeze on American steel and aluminum. The dollar-for-dollar measures announced Tuesday hit back at the new 50 percent tariffs the United States imposed on roughly $20 billion in Canadian imports after negotiations collapsed last week between the two countries,

Canada is preparing retaliatory tariffs against the United States as relations sharply deteriorate, with President Donald Trump telling Canadian leaders to “fall in line” and musing about renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America.

Oil fell Wednesday, as investors continue to assess the U.S. pivot toward economic sanctions rather than military strikes to add pressure on Iran.

Oil prices fell in early trading, with Brent crude below $90 a barrel, despite U.S. plans to tighten economic pressure on Iran.

What matters more for oil prices is how hard U.S. sanctions hit China, Iran’s biggest oil buyer, and whether Beijing pushes back.

Long queues formed at petrol stations in Tehran on Tuesday after the United States announced fresh sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran into submission.The government has attributed the violence to

The incident is among the deadliest hospital fires in recent years in Pakistan, where government health care is subsidized but facilities are under-resourced and overburdened.

The fire broke out in an air conditioning unit at the mother and child unit in one of Islamabad's main hospitals.

At least 14 newborn babies died Wednesday morning in one Pakistan’s deadliest hospital fires in recent decades.

Fourteen infants were killed in a fire at one of the largest hospitals in Pakistan’s capital early Wednesday, prompting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to order an investigation.

The U.S. military has attacked another boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people

The Aug. 23 strike on a suspected drug boat was the first such attack in more than two month, according to independent conflict monitor ACLED.

The US military has killed at least 227 people in strikes that have destroyed 69 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States, according to official announcements and CNN’s analysis of search and rescue efforts.

U.S. forces have struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs

CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Russia because US intelligence had gathered information indicating that Moscow was making early preparations for a possible military mobilisation.

The CIA director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced flight to Moscow for talks, according to a source. This is Ratcliffe's first trip to Moscow since he began his tenure as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

It is Ratcliffe’s first publicly known trip to the Russian capital, but the CIA declined to say why he is there.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the Washington Post that Ratcliffe's visit involved "contacts between security services."

Iran and Oman outlined a joint proposal to establish a temporary shipping lane and launch a demining effort in the critical waterway. Follow for live updates.

Handout via REUTERS CAIRO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Iran said it had restarted talks ⁠with ⁠neighbor Oman to manage the Strait ⁠of Hormuz as it faces heightened economic pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump in the ​wider conflict.

The two nations, which lie on opposite sides of the vital, narrow waterway, discussed a proposal to temporarily reopen it and clear mines.

Iran and Oman held talks in Tehran to discuss the management of traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as well as a joint mine-clearing project. Further negotiations are expected to discuss a