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While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, June 28, 2025
Mr Carney (left) and Mr Trump recently met at the Group of Seven leaders' summit in Canada and agreed to try to hash out a trade agreement by the middle of July. PHOTO: REUTERS REUTERS
While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, June 28, 2025
Trump ends trade talks with Canada, threatens to set tariff
US President Donald Trump said he was ending all trade discussions with Canada in retaliation for the country's digital services tax, and threatened to impose a fresh tariff rate within the next week.
'Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period,' Mr Trump posted on June 27, on social media.
Canada and the US have one of the world's largest bilateral trading relationships, exchanging more than US$900 billion (S$1.14 trillion) of goods and services in 2024.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking briefly to a television reporter, said he had not spoken with Mr Trump yet, on June 27. 'We'll continue to conduct these complex negotiations in the best interests of Canadians,' he said.
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Trump would consider bombing Iran again if necessary
President Donald Trump said on June 27 he would consider bombing Iran again if Tehran was enriching uranium to a level that concerned the United States, and he backed inspections of Iran's bombed nuclear sites.
'Sure, without question, absolutely,' Mr Trump said, when asked about the possibility of new bombing of Iranian nuclear sites if deemed necessary at some point.
At a White House news conference, Mr Trump said he plans to respond soon to comments from Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei, who said Iran 'slapped America in the face' by launching an attack against a major US base in Qatar following last weekend's US bombing raid.
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'Science refugees': French uni welcomes first US researchers
Eight American researchers have arrived at a university in southern France, as the country pushes to offer 'science asylum' to US academics hit by federal research spending cuts under US President Donald Trump.
The University of Aix-Marseille (AMU) welcomed the scholars on June 27, following the March launch of its 'Safe Place for Science' initiative, the first among 20 set to relocate there in coming months.
The programme has already drawn nearly 300 applicants from top institutions such as Stanford, Nasa, and Berkeley.
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WHO says all Covid-19 origin theories still open
All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organisation said on June 27, following an inconclusive four-year investigation that was hamstrung by crucial information being withheld.
The global catastrophe killed an estimated 20 million people, according to the WHO, while shredding economies, crippling health systems and turning people's lives upside-down.
The first cases were detected in Wuhan in China in late 2019, and understanding where the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 came from is key to preventing future pandemics.
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UK man jailed for 40 years for teenager's murder
A man who killed a 14-year-old boy in London during a rampage with a sword was on Jan 27 jailed for a minimum of 40 years.
Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, nearly decapitated schoolboy Daniel Anjorin during a 20-minute series of attacks in Hainault, east London, in April 2024, in which he also assaulted several other people including police officers.
Prosecutors said Monzo killed and skinned his cat before driving his van at a pedestrian and slicing him with the sword, murdering Daniel and then trying to murder a police officer.
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