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By Maria Cheng OTTAWA, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal party won three special elections on Tuesday, maintaining Carney’s slim majority in Parliament at a time when he has called for national unity to face a worsening trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump.  Liberal candidates won seats in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec after Carney’s government first secured a majority in April.  The seats in […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – U.S. job openings increased in July amid a surge in manufacturing vacancies, but weak hiring suggested the labor market remained in a holding pattern. Job openings, a measure of labor demand, had risen by 89,000 to 7.271 million by the last day of July, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, on Tuesday. […]

Aaron Donald’s decision to come off the retirement couch and get back on the field after a two-year absence may be unusual but it’s far from unprecedented. Donald joins a list of athletes who had called it quits after putting together Hall of Fame-caliber careers only to get the itch and decide to come back to play. “Do I feel like I can play at a high level? Yes,” Donald […]

The Philadelphia Eagles are the first in a generation with back-to-back titles in the NFC East, a division that didn’t have another team with a winning record last season. The New York Giants, with just two playoff appearances since the franchise’s fourth Super Bowl championship 15 years ago, hired a perennial winner in John Harbaugh soon after the coach parted ways with Baltimore. The Dallas Cowboys spent the entire offseason […]

Iran’s president said Tuesday his country is ready to return to the ceasefire deal reached with the United States in June if Washington does the same, in conciliatory remarks following the first exchange of fire between the two countries in a month. Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here. Speaking at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization […]

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema was inaugurated Tuesday to begin his second term after a disputed election that saw some opposition leaders arrested and the country’s courts closed for legal appeals to the election outcomes. Hichilema was sworn-in at an event at the National Heroes Stadium in the capital Lusaka in front of thousands of supporters. Hichilema was declared the election winner on Aug. 18 with around […]

ISTANBUL (AP) — A submersible vessel joined the search Tuesday for 20 people missing for two days following a ferry disaster off the coast of Cyprus. Eight people died when the passenger ferry Filo Jet, which was carrying 267 passengers and crew, capsized and sank after leaving Kyrenia, a port in northern Cyprus, for Tasucu, Turkey, on Sunday afternoon. The Turkish navy ship TCG Isin arrived at the site and […]

LAS MINAS, Cuba (AP) — The Barroso family rose at dawn and hitched a cart to a borrowed horse to take one of their daughters to school on Tuesday, the first day of classes for many students across Cuba. As the crises deepen on the island, thieves recently stole the family’s horse and killed it for food, so the Barrosos now rely on a borrowed animal for transportation, because school […]

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after just 18 months on the job. The White House announced his departure after Driscoll spoke with President Donald Trump about the current state of the Army, an Army official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. He’s only the latest top military leader to leave during the Trump administration. The U.S. Postal Service is rushing to launch a hastily built, error-riddled […]