With weather systems expected to hardly budge, the smoky blanket billowing across the U.S. and Canada from wildfires in Quebec and Nova Scotia should persist into Thursday and possibly the weekend. That means at least another day, or more, of a dystopian-style detour that’s chased players from ballfields, actors from Broadway stages, delayed thousands of flights, and sparked a resurgence in mask wearing and remote work all while raising concerns about the health effects of prolonged exposure to such bad air. U.S. National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan Ramsey says the weather system that’s driving the great Canadian-American smoke out “will probably be hanging around at least for the next few days."
ROME (AP) Italy’s far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday rejected criticism from her Canadian counterpart at the G7 Summit about her government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Canadian government is expelling a Chinese diplomat whom Canada’s spy agency alleges was involved in a plot to intimidate an opposition lawmaker and his relatives in Hong Kong. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada has declared Toronto-based diplomat Zhao Wei “persona non grata.” Calls for Zhao to be expelled began last week after a report in the Globe and Mail that CSIS had information in 2021 that the Chinese government was looking at ways to intimidate Conservative lawmaker Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong. Chong has been critical of Beijing’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province. China has insisted it does not interfere in other countries’ internal affairs.
King Charles III will be crowned on Saturday at Westminster Abbey in London. Follow the latest live updates of this historic royal ceremony on APNews.com.