Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions – exacerbated by the Ukraine war – have sent the global food supply into chaos. Ukraine and Russia are massive food exporters, and the war has left global food supplies scarce and prices sky-high. Some countries have responded to the turmoil by enforcing export bans on some products to keep prices down at home – further disrupting the global food network. We take a look at food inflation in select countries over the past year.
President Donald Trump talks to the media next to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, with a Tesla car in the background, at the White House on March 11, 2025.
Elon Musk has a big day ahead. On Friday, he’ll be made privy to war plans for a US military conflict with China, according to the New York Times.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday stripping away much of the Department of Education, but he stopped short of dismantling it completely.
The countdown is on! At noon on Sunday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to dissolve parliament and send voters into an election campaign that promises to be one of the most consequential — and hotly contested — in recent history.
Indonesian activists are protesting a new law allowing active-duty military members to serve an expanded role in the civilian government — a move they warn could bring back the days of military repression under strongman leader Suharto.
Though European leaders have been excluded from Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine, meetings today in Brussels and London are meant to demonstrate Europe’s continuing commitment to supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs to repel Russian invaders.
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Donald Trump has not yet made the traditional congratulatory call to Mark Carney, but the US president is not calling Carney “governor” – like he did with Justin Trudeau. Which would be ironic, considering the Canadian PM once served as governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. Could it be that Trump had a special desire to bully Trudeau and will take a different approach with his successor? Stephen Maher reports ...
GZERO’s Evan Solomon announced on Thursday that he will be returning to Canada and running for Mark Carney’s Liberals. A former Canadian broadcaster, he has been GZERO’s publisher since 2022.