The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada proposed new measures for protecting the country’s automotive industry, arguing that it’s a mistake to shift focus away from the US as the industry’s primary export market.

As protests in Cuba over the lack of electricity and food entered their second night, Mexico’s former president launched a fundraising campaign to aid a nation he says is being “exterminated for its ideals of liberty and the defense of its sovereignty.”

A top aide to President Donald Trump said the Pentagon estimates the Iran war, now in its third week, would take between four and six weeks.

Last week, citizens in Nepal headed to the polls for the first time since last September’s youth-led protests toppled the government. Balendra Shah, the former Kathmandu mayor who rose to prominence as a face of the Gen Z movement, is projected to win in a landslide victory. Shah’s electoral victory signals a shifting political order in Nepal, a result that could upend a bureaucratic system long dominated by three parties. To understand this historic election, we look back at a movement that started with a few social media posts and changed the course of a nation. (Source: Bloomberg)

Canada and the Nordic countries agreed to ramp up defense production and deepen security cooperation to counter Russia in the Arctic and push back against US pressure on Greenland.