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Reports in state media give rare details of allegations against Michael Spavor and his compatriot Michael KovrigChinese state media have accused the jailed Canadian Michael Spavor of supplying photographs of military equipment to Michael Kovrig in repe…
Analysis: Tuesday’s meeting called by Boris Johnson may include postmortem on Joe Biden’s handling of crisisThe emergency meeting of G7 nations on Tuesday – called by Boris Johnson as this year’s chair of the G7 – is in essence a gathering of the vanqu…
Jail term for Michael Spavor viewed by Canada as retaliation over Huawei finance chief’s detention – is a bargain likely to be reached?Hours after a court in China sentenced Canadian Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage, Meng Wanzhou appe…
Erin O’Toole says Canada should consider a boycott of Games amid worsening ties with China and jailing of Canadian Michael SpavorThe leader of Canada’s Conservative opposition party has warned that it may soon be too dangerous for Canadians to travel t…
Possible ruling in Chinese court comes amid tensions over death sentence handed to another Canadian, and fate of an arrested Huawei executiveA Canadian entrepreneur charged in China with spying days after the arrest of a Huawei executive faces a possib…
Ruling comes as verdict expected in trial of fellow Canadian Michael SpavorA Chinese court has upheld a death sentence against Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg.Schellenberg has been detained in China since 2014, when he was accused of attempting to…
Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, whose detention has thrown US-China feud into focus, urge judge to throw out extradition requestLawyers for Meng Wanzhou say American prosecutors acted in “bad faith” and abused the Canadian justice system when they pursued th…
Du Meizhu, 19, accuses ex-boyband member of date-raping her when she was 17Chinese brands have severed ties with the Chinese-Canadian singer-actor Kris Wu after he was accused of date rape by a student.Wu shot to fame as a member of the South Korean bo…
As scorching temperatures spread, the search for ways to protect against heat stress is becoming ever more urgentWilliam Martínez, who as a child worked on a sugarcane plantation in rural Nicaragua, learned the hard way what many in the US and Canada a…
Exclusive: Costs of War study looked at losses suffered by Nato allies over 2001-17, finding UK lost 455 lives British and Canadian troops were more than twice as likely to get killed in Afghanistan as their US counterparts, according to a study that l…
Meng Wanzhou’s team had sought more time to review new documents after Hong Kong settlement with HSBCA Canada judge has agreed to delay Meng Wanzhou’s US extradition hearings for three months, according to a ruling read in court on Wednesday, handing t…
China and Canada have clashed repeatedly in recent months over Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur minorityA Chinese diplomat has dismissed Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau as a “boy” in a social media attack marking a new low in the fractured rela…
Washington says Beijing’s tit-for-tat sanctions will only focus attention on its ‘genocide’ against UighursThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has warned that China’s tit-for-tat sanctions against two Americans in the growing dispute over Beijin…
Closed-door hearing takes place days after trial of another Canadian, with diplomats barred from attending The trial of a Canadian man detained for more than two years in China on espionage charges has taken place, with relations between Ottawa and Bei…
Business consultants Matthew O’Kane and Christa Avery are believed to be under house arrest after trying to flee on relief flightTwo Australian business consultants have been detained in Myanmar while trying to leave the country which is gripped by a m…