
Trump is threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Canada from opening
President Trump on Monday threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River, in his latest salvo over cross-border trade issues.
SATURDAY, 14 FEBRUARY 2026, 00:54

President Trump on Monday threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River, in his latest salvo over cross-border trade issues.

The author’s erotic novel featured an 18-year-old protagonist who role-played as a toddler.

The landmark decision said “legitimate intimate relationships” must not be “legally invisible”.
Australia’s Prime Minister said on Tuesday he was “devastated” by scenes of clashes at a Sydney rally against a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, but defended the police’s actions against protesters.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge, which connects Michigan to Ontario, is set to open this year.

Why did a youthful, progressive party do so poorly compared to a transactional, old-style party?

Vizsla Silver Corp says that family members of some of the kidnapped workers have informed the company that their relatives were found dead.

Mona Juul and her husband Terje Rød-Larsen – who played a vital role in the Oslo Accords – are being investigated for “aggravated corruption”.
Russian strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed at least one person, the city’s military administration said.

BBC News Persian Forensic has been able to confirm the security forces’ deployment of a wide array of lethal and non-lethal weaponry.
Britain’s Prince William will begin on Monday his first official visit to Saudi Arabia, aimed at deepening economic cooperation but already overshadowed by his disgraced uncle Andrew’s links to Jeffrey Epstein.
A white supremacist who shot and killed 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in 2019 launched an appeal seeking to overturn his conviction.

Japan’s first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral victory, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she says could “split public opinion.”

Two blocks fall down in what is the fifth such disaster this winter, as warnings of neglect grow.

Japan’s ruling party scored its biggest electoral win in its seven-decade history Sunday, due mostly to the popularity of its first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi.
Namibia’s energy ministry said the government wasn’t notified of the planned acquisition by TotalEnergies and Petroleo Brasileiro of stakes in an offshore exploration licence in the southern African country.

Lai’s supporters say this amounts to a death sentence, but authorities say it demonstrates the rule of law.

Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy said the U.S. has set a June deadline for Kyiv and Moscow to end the war, even as Washington and Russia discuss $12 trillion in economic deals that could affect Ukraine.

A Hong Kong court sentenced 78-year-old activist and publisher Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty under China’s national security law.

Jindo county head Kim Hee-soo had suggested “importing young women from Vietnam or Sri Lanka” for young rural men.

Detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has received another prison sentence of over seven years.