The FBI has arrested Indian national Harmanveer Singh in California for his alleged role in a transnational drug trafficking network linked to the Canada-based Ravinder Dhanda gang. The arrest is part of Operation Hard Ball, an international crackdown targeting organised crime groups involved in narcotics smuggling across the US, Canada and Mexico.

Wildfires raging across northwestern Ontario have blanketed parts of Canada in dense smoke, pushing air pollution to hazardous levels in Toronto and Ottawa. The fires have disrupted rail operations, forced evacuations, and reignited concerns over the growing impact of climate change