BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.

The health emergency aboard the ship that’s moored across the ocean comes as Argentina sees a surge of hantavirus cases that many local public health researchers attribute to the recently accelerating effects of climate change. Argentina, where the cruise to Antarctica departed, is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent

OTTAWA — Canadian cattle producers want the federal government to omit beef from the free trade agreement it is pushing to sign with the South American Mercosur trade bloc by the end of the year.

Tyler Fulton, Manitoba-based cattle producer and president of the Canadian Cattle Association, says a deal with Mercosur that includes beef access makes Canada more dependent on beef imports and hurts food security at home and abroad.

He says beef producers can’t continue producing beef at home and exporting it around the world if Canada’s domestic

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority, the White House announced Wednesday.

The document was released months after his administration published an updated national security strategy that called for the hemisphere to be the top U.S. focus.

“We will not let cartels, Jihadists, or the governments who support them plot against our citizens with impunity. Terrorists of any kind will not

The trial began Tuesday for a Toronto couple accused of murdering their neighbour in Liberty Village .

Toronto filmmaker Reeyaz Habib lived alone in a townhouse at 26 Western Battery Road and was reported missing to the police in June 2023. His body was discovered in the garbage compactor at 54 East Liberty on June 8.

First responders were initially called to the building in response to reports of hazardous materials in the compactor room, but no medical assistance was required.

Khoa Tran of Toronto was arrested and initially charged with

TORONTO — Stock markets in Canada and the United States soared higher in late-morning trading and the price of oil fell amid hopes that the U.S. and Iran are moving closer to an initial agreement to end their war.

The June crude oil contract was down US$7.24 at US$95.03 per barrel.

The S&P/TSX composite index was up 445.69 points at 34,012.60.

In New York

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he won’t take a position yet on whether people with only a mental illness should be able to access assisted dying.

“I like to take informed positions and I’ll wait for the report,” he said before a meeting of the Liberal caucus on Parliament Hill.

A parliamentary committee of senators and MPs is studying whether the country is ready to expand medical assistance in dying, or MAID, to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.

That extension is

Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news business by launching CNN in 1980, has died at age 87.

CNN reported that he died Wednesday, citing a Turner Enterprises news release.

Turner owned professional sports teams in Atlanta, defended the America’s Cup in yachting in 1977 and donated a stunning $1 billion to United Nations charities. He married three women — most famously actress Jane Fonda — and

TORONTO — Honda Motor plans to more definitively halt development on its $15 billion electric vehicle complex in Canada, according to a news report from Nikkei Asia.

The Japanese automaker paused development in May last year, saying at the time that the company would review where the EV market was in two years before deciding the future of the project.

The report from Nikkei Asia says sluggish U.S. demand for EVs is leading the automaker to freeze the Canadian EV investment and make hybrids the centre of its North American strategy

PRAIA, Cape Verde (AP) — Three cruise ship passengers with suspected infections were flown to the Netherlands on Wednesday for treatment.

and one body is still on the Dutch ship at the center of the outbreak, the MV Hondius, which is now heading for Spain’s Canary Islands. The patients were evacuated via the Cape Verde islands off West Africa.

About 150 passengers are isolating in their cabins, and officials say those on board show no symptoms.

The World Health Organization says the outbreak’s global