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The International Energy Agency has suggested the biggest drawdown of oil stocks in its history, aiming to lower crude prices that have jumped over the past ten days, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The proposed drawdown would surpass the 182 million barrels that IEA member nations released in two

A bus ignited in western Switzerland on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding five others, in what authorities described as possibly a deliberate act. The blaze erupted on a bus travelling along the main street of the small town of Kerzers, roughly 20 km (12 miles) west of

Two men opened fire on the U.S. consulate in Toronto early Tuesday, an act police called a “national security incident”, leading to increased security at U.S. and Israeli diplomatic sites in the city. The suspects arrived at the downtown consulate around 4:30 a.m. Eastern Time, got

A royal commission examining New Zealand’s Covid response concluded that the nation’s handling ranked among the world’s finest, while also recognising that the period left lasting “scars”. The second of two inquiry reports on the pandemic was issued on Tuesday, concentrating on the interval from February 2021

Kevin Fox assumed that the unusually mild, spring‑like temperatures that had briefly driven the cold from southeastern Ontario would make for a fine day of ice fishing, a common winter activity in the area. After moving to a new spot because the wind and the ice “didn’t feel

Around noon, while airstrikes pounded several districts of the capital, sizable crowds gathered in Tehran’s well‑known Enghelab Square, shouting loyalty to Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader. Holding banners that displayed the portrait of the deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, demonstrators on Monday also unveiled a fresh image – that