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Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, said he had apologized privately to Mr. Trump

for an anti-tariff ad that had offended the American president.

He said that he had asked Doug Ford,

Ontario's premier, not to run the clip that prompted Mr. Trump to sever trade negotiations with

Canada in late October. The pair met at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Gathering in South Korea.

Tens of thousands of Serbians protested on the first anniversary of a fatal accident

that sparked months of mass anti-government demonstrations. Last November, 16 people were killed

when the canopy of a railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia's second city, collapsed. The disaster was

blamed on graft and poor accountability.

Student-led protests have since demanded political change.

Berkshire Hathaway reported selling about $12.5 billion of stock and buying $6.4 billion in the last

quarter. Since late 2022, Warren Buffett's firm has sold roughly $212 billion

worth of shares while purchasing only $34 billion. Mr. Buffett, who plans to step down at the end of

this year, seems to think equities are overpriced. He looks set to leave his successor, Greg Abel, a record

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