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The United States has applied a 50 per cent tariff on a wide range of Canadian products.
The White House says it's in response to what it calls Canada's 'discriminatory treatment' of US cars, alcohol and dairy.
The products covered by the tariffs range from wine to hockey sticks, cement, dairy products, furniture, fishing rods, seeds, clothing and wigs.
The tariff announcement comes days after President Trump blamed Canada for wildfire smoke spreading across the US.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says President Trump should be offering support, rather than threatening tariffs.
"I've got to remind President Trump that there's 3.9 million acres burning in the United States right now and if we had resources, we would send them down to our closest friends and allies. So you know something, rather than criticise and threaten Canada, your closest friends, maybe one day you're gonna need our help like you did last year and we deployed the people."
Authorities in Papua New Guinea are searching for 27 people who dissapeared over the weekend while travelling in two boats over rough seas.
An aerial search on Monday located one capsised vessel, but there was no sign of the passengers, many of whom were children.
Provincial Police Commander Chief Superintendent Amanda Kates is urging people not to travel by sea.
"At the moment, with these strong winds, we are going to enforce that there is no visiting out to Pangpang Island just for this until that wind dies down. The safety of the community is our priority, and we will have our police boats out there and enforcing that at whilst this sea alert and the wind alert is current. And I want the community support to stop the families, to stop the tourism operators at the moment from actually going out there and having another incident where we have to search. Please, I just beg of you. "
Ukrainian drones have injured 10 people in Moscow and set buildings on fire, according to Russian officials.
Ukraine sent 400 drones to Moscow and the surrounding areas.
The town's Mayor, Yevgeniya Khrustaleva says a fire broke out at a local industrial park, and a residential building had also been struck.
A former FIFA World Cup referee has told SBS it's too soon for FIFA to decide whether or not to expand the number of World Cup teams.
Christina Unkel says it would be smarter to wait even just one more cycle before growing the game.
She says for smaller nations, even if slots to enter the World Cup open up, those federations would need to provide more funding in order to be competitive.
"This tournament was a good example of where I was okay with it expanding for this tournament. I know there was a lot of loud voices who were not okay before the tournament started, that they, it had been expanded, and to your point, had changed their mind throughout when you have the Cape Verde's of the world, right? When you see a lot of these new first-time debutantes, really, competing."
