ABE NEWS | August 28, 2026 Canada’s economy has delivered a surprisingly powerful comeback. After months of weak growth, recession fears and mounting pressure from its trade confrontation with the United States, the Canadian economy expanded at an annualized rate of 3.3% in the second quarter of 2026, its strongest pace of growth since…
ABE NEWS | August 28, 2026 Norway has lost its king. King Harald V, the country’s monarch for more than 35 years and one of Europe’s longest-serving heads of state, died Friday at the age of 89, bringing to an end a reign that spanned dramatic changes in Norwegian society and transformed him into…
ABE NEWS | August 27, 2026 One of North America’s five Great Lakes has suddenly become the latest battleground in the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Canada. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the American federal government to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” turning what had been…
ABE NEWS | August 27, 2026 A catastrophic wall of ice, rock and mud has torn through the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China’s Tibet, killing hundreds of people, destroying communities and leaving more than 1,000 people missing as rescuers race against time to find survivors. The scale of the disaster continued to…
ABE NEWS | August 27, 2026 The question hanging over the artificial-intelligence boom has been getting louder: How long can this extraordinary spending continue? Nvidia just delivered its answer. The world’s dominant supplier of artificial-intelligence chips reported another enormous quarter, with revenue reaching $96.2 billion, more than double the level recorded a year earlier….
ABE NEWS | August 26, 2026 One of the biggest legal battles over children, social media and the power of Big Tech has produced a landmark result. Meta Platforms, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has agreed to pay up to roughly $17.1 billion and make sweeping changes to how its platforms work…
ABE NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026 A fight over the future of world football is escalating far beyond the pitch. FIFA President Gianni Infantino, once expected to move comfortably toward another term leading the world’s most powerful football organization, is facing an increasingly organized revolt over his leadership. Italy became the latest major…
ABE NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026 Dolly Parton, the country music superstar whose extraordinary journey took her from poverty in the mountains of Tennessee to global fame, Hollywood, business success and one of the world’s best-known children’s literacy programs, has died. She was 80 years old. Parton died Tuesday at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center…
ABE NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026 Oil prices are falling sharply, global markets are breathing a little easier, and one of the most economically important waterways on Earth may finally be moving toward a partial reopening. But beneath Wednesday morning’s optimism lies a much more complicated reality: the Strait of Hormuz remains severely…
ABE NEWS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 Canada has officially answered Washington’s latest tariffs, and the response marks another serious deterioration in one of the world’s largest and most deeply integrated trading relationships. The federal government announced Tuesday that it will impose new retaliatory tariffs on C$27.6 billion worth of goods imported from the…
