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Canada Post workers were set to wrap up voting on new tentative agreements Saturday after more than two years of labour strife. Some 55,000 Canadian Union of Postal Workers members began voting April 20 on a five-year contract, which includes wage increases of 6.5 per cent and three per cent in the first two years. Voting was expected to conclude Saturday with the union saying it expects to release results on Monday.Canada Post and the union have long sparred over wages and structural changes to the postal service, with workers having taken to the picket line on multiple occasions throughout…

Foundation Future Industries, a start-up founded in 2024, aims to leverage humanoid robots for military and industrial work, rather than household tasks and the service sector.Foundation Future IndustriesAs Silicon Valley races to build humanoid robots that can fold laundry and pour a latte, at least one start-up sees a very different use for the technology: war or other potentially hazardous and deadly jobs. Meet Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco-based robotics company with ties to the Trump family, developing ‘dual-use’ autonomous humanoid robots for both heavy industrial environments and military applications. While the robots sound like something out of a Terminator-esque science…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The United States’ men’s national team already has a major injury question mark before the 2026 FIFA World Cup even kicks off.Chris Richards, the 26-year-old who many believe is the best defender on the USMNT heading into the tournament, won’t be traveling for the team’s international friendly against Senegal on Sunday.Manager Mauricio Pochettino said that Richards is dealing with an ankle injury that has kept him out of Crystal Palace’s last two matches of the season. And even worse for fans, there’s currently no public timetable for his return. Chris Richards of…

US President Donald Trump’s administration says it intended to appeal a judge’s order that allows all companies that paid invalidated tariffs to seek refunds.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Buddhist hierarchy suspended on Saturday (May 30) a senior monk accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl, in a high-profile case that has shocked the religiously conservative nation.In a rare disciplinary move, 71-year-old Pallegama Hemarathana was stripped of his responsibilities as the chief custodian of a highly venerated ficus grown from a sapling of a tree believed to have sheltered the Buddha.”The Council of Monks of the Malwatte Chapter decided today to suspend Ven. Hemarathana until the conclusion of the legal proceedings against him,” a statement issued by the chief priests said.Police arrested Hemarathana on May 9…

NewsFeedWomen in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are disproportionately impacted by Ebola as shortages of protective gear amid funding cuts accelerate the spread of disease. Al Jazeera’s Imogen Kimber reports how these caregivers to the living and the dead are most at risk.Published On 30 May 202630 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s threat to “blow up” Oman if the Gulf kingdom didn’t “behave” has exposed a rare rupture with one of Washington’s most valuable Middle East partners — a country that has spent decades quietly serving as America’s backchannel to Iran.”The strait’s gotta be open to everybody,” the president said during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. “It’s international waters. Nobody’s going to control it. We’re going to watch over it. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. That’s part of the negotiation that we have. They would like to…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Environment Canada has issued rainfall warnings and a special weather statement for a swath of Alberta and British Columbia. The weather agency says between 50 millimetres and 100 millimetres of rain is set to pour from Saturday until Wednesday from Fort McMurray in Alberta’s northeast to Lethbridge in the south.It says water will likely pool on roads and locals should look out for washouts near rivers, creeks and culverts.In B.C., the agency says in a special weather statement that up to 80 millimetres of rainfall will pour over the roughly next five days in…

VanEck has ranked the XRP Ledger (XRPL) as the top corporate blockchain, placing it above JPMorgan’s Kinexys, Coinbase’s Base, and Canton Network. Will this boost The VanEck assessment cites XRPL’s implied market capitalization of approximately $88 billion alongside $47 million in DeFi total value locked (TVL), reflecting early but real liquidity activity on-chain. What makes the ranking striking is the competition it bests: Kinexys (formerly JPMorgan Onyx) is one of the most mature bank-led blockchain initiatives in existence, processing tokenized deposits and interbank settlement at an institutional scale. VanEck ranking, VanEckDiscover: The Best Crypto to Diversify Your PortfolioXRP Price Prediction:…

Retail investors are rushing into the space investing trade ahead of the SpaceX IPO, and one ETF has cashed in on the excitement.Tema ETFs’ Space Innovators ETF, which launched on March 30 and trades under the ticker symbol NASA, crossed $1 billion in assets in just 37 trading days, and by the end of this past trading week, had reached over $2.6 billion in assets. That rapid rise is due in part to retail investors hunting for exposure to SpaceX before it goes public.While SpaceX has taken an unusual approach to its offering, setting up access for retail investors through…