Toronto: Toronto Pearson International Airport is seeing a spike in cancelled and delayed flights today due to a labour dispute between its airlines and their fueling company. Only 17 of the 47 employees who refuel planes at the airport and were scheduled to work this morning showed up, resulting inRead More

TORONTO — Air Canada is advising passengers that their plans could be disrupted Saturday as the airline recovers from a job action by workers at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Air Canada says customers booked on affected flights on Saturday and wishing to make alternate travel arrangements can do so withoutRead More

TORONTO — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says a popular roast beef brand sold across the country is being recalled over possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. FG Deli Group Ltd. is recalling Grimm’s Fine Foods brand Home Style Roast Beef and is advising Canadians not to eat the product over healthRead More

VIENNA: A long-delayed investigation into whether Iran has sought to develop nuclear weapons could be completed by the end of the year with Tehran’s help, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said Saturday. Following his talks in Tehran earlier this week, UN watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said “progress wasRead More

TUNIS: Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on Saturday declared a state of emergency following last week’s jihadist beach massacre in which 38 foreign tourists were killed, his office said. “The president has declared a state of emergency in Tunisia and will address the nation at 5 pm (1600 GMT),” Essebsi’sRead More

ROME: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Saturday that his country is no longer a “companion in misfortune” of debt-wracked Greece, as it was three or four years ago. “We need to stop calling Italy the sick man of Europe, because it’s no longer true,” Renzi told Italian television channelRead More

KABUL: Afghanistan’s parliament on Saturday rejected President Ashraf Ghani’s nominee for defence ministry, a crucial post that has sat vacant for months as stretched security forces fight to secure territory from a revitalised Taliban. In late May, the president had named Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, a top official in the governmentRead More

SANAA: A Saudi-led air strike on a Huthi Shiite rebel stronghold in Yemen’s northern mountains killed 23 people early on Saturday, tribal sources said. Sauid The strike targeted a munitions factory in Saqayn, near Saada, the sources said. Coalition aircraft also bombed the rebel-held capital Sanaa, targeting an arms warehouseRead More

BOGOTA: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday blamed leftist ELN guerrillas for two explosions that rocked Bogota and left 10 people slightly injured a day earlier. “The indications are that those responsible are the ELN, the evidence so far is in this direction,” the president said after a securityRead More

DUBAI: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday Iran and world powers had never been closer to a nuclear deal but that there was no guarantee of success. In a statement broadcast on Youtube, Zarif added: “I see hope because I see emergence of reason over illusion. IRead More