Morsa Images | Digitalvision | Getty Images As a result, federal student loan rates may increase in the 2024-2025 academic year, according to an estimate by higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. The rate could go up by 1 percentage point. “This is a fairly big jump,” Kantrowitz said. Here’s what borrowers need to know. What … Read more
The arrests of three suspected hitmen accused of killing a B.C. Sikh leader highlight an emerging security problem: foreign intelligence services are contracting their dirty work to the criminal underworld. Governments are increasingly accused of trying to silence and kill opponents outside their borders, and they are relying more and more on crime groups to … Read more
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Angus King (I-Maine) pressed the Biden administration on Wednesday for information on how it is addressing Iran’s use of cryptocurrency mining to evade sanctions. “Iran has raised millions of dollars through mining crypto—a steady revenue source that allows it to purchase imports, move funds domestically and internationally, and fund Hamas … Read more
More than two dozen people marched in Winnipeg this weekend in solidarity with a man facing the death sentence in Iran. Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian, was sentenced to death earlier this week, according to his lawyer. He had been detained by officials in the aftermath of the death of Masha Amini, following her arrest by … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada on Thursday joined the United States and United Kingdom in laying additional sanctions on Iran over its unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel earlier this month. Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced Ottawa was sanctioning Iran’s defence minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, the general staff of the … Read more
A general view of Isfahan Refinery, one of the largest refineries in Iran and is considered as the first refinery in the country in terms of diversity of petroleum products in Isfahan, Iran on November 08, 2023. Fatemeh Bahrami | Anadolu | Getty Images U.S. crude oil fell below $81 a barrel on Tuesday, the … Read more
Israel and Iran are likely seeking to avoid further escalating their long-simmering feud into a regional war after an apparent Israeli strike last week, one Middle East expert says — but Iran may still be building a target list for the future. Israel and the United States have not commented on who was responsible for … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden can breathe a bit easier, at least for the moment, now that Israel and Iran appear to have stepped back from the brink of tipping the Middle East into all-out war. Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Iran and Syria caused limited damage. The restrained action came after Biden urged Prime … Read more
The Iranian flag above the new Phase 3 facility at the Persian Gulf Star gas condensate refinery in Bandar Abbas, Iran, in 2019. Ali Mohammadi | Bloomberg | Getty Images If investors only looked at the price of oil at the end of this week, they wouldn’t have known that Israel and Iran, OPEC’s third-largest … Read more
World leaders appealed for calm Friday after reported Israeli retaliation against Iran added to months of tense spillover from the war in Gaza, with Iranian state media reporting explosions in a central province.Israeli officials made no public comment on the attack and Iranian officials played down its significance.Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Israeli micro-drones … Read more
