Gains could include some 3,400 jobs and three billion dollars in tax revenue for the surrounding counties, according to a study by the council.

US authorities estimate that there are around 11 million unauthorized people living in the United States, the vast majority of whom come from Mexico.

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Gary Anandasangaree delivered the apology in Nunavik, in northern Quebec province.

Here are the main points of the agreement reached at COP29 in Baku

Nearly 200 nations approved Sunday a climate deal that raises to at least $300 billion a year the amount wealthy historic polluters pay poorer countries to take action against global warming

The world’s most climate-imperilled nations stormed out of consultations in protest at the deadlocked UN COP29 conference yesterday, as simmering tensions over a hard-fought finance deal erupted into the open.

Around 300 families yesterday fled sectarian violence in northwest Pakistan as fresh sectarian clashes killed another 32 people.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stressed that the United States was dedicated to a diplomatic resolution in Lebanon and urged Israel to improve “dire” conditions in Gaza, in a call Saturday with his Israeli counterpart.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra won a resounding victory in the Wayanad Lok Sabha by-poll, setting the stage for her maiden appearance as a member of the Lok Sabha

The results of the assembly election in Jharkhand, where an alliance led by regional party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, stormed back to power, have rebuffed main challenger Bharatiya Janata Party’s aggressive campaign on the polarising plank based on alleged infiltration from Bangladesh

EU, US, others willing to raise goal after earlier deal panned

Kenyan President ordered the cancellation of a procurement process that had been expected to award control of the country's main airport to India's Adani Group

A child in California has become the first in the United States to test positive for bird flu infection, authorities said Friday

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services

Trump on Friday named billionaire Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary

A Syria war monitor said yesterday that Israeli strikes on the city of Palmyra this week killed 92 pro-Iran fighters, after a United Nations representative said they were likely the deadliest to date.

The Kremlin said yesterday that a strike on Ukraine using a newly-developed hypersonic ballistic missile was designed to warn the West that Moscow will respond to moves by the US and Britain to let Kyiv strike Russia with their missiles.

​​​​​​​The COP29 climate summit presidency released a draft finance deal yesterday that would have developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035 to help poorer nations - a proposal that drew criticism from all sides.

Russia needs migrants in order to develop because of its dwindling domestic workforce, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published yesterday.

Nato chief Mark Rutte held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on the “global security issues facing the alliance”, a spokeswoman said yesterday.