BOC will not hold a closed-door media press conference for its Sept. 2 interest-rate decision.

{"title":"Trump signs order renaming Canada's Lake Ontario 'American Lake'","content":"President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order formally renaming Canada's Lake Ontario 'American Lake', a symbolic move amid an escalating U.S.-Canada trade dispute. In the Oval Office Trump said "'American Lake' is a name I've been thinking about for a long time. We have a gulf (he called the Gulf of Mexico 'American Gulf') and a lake. Now we only lack an ocean," adding he might rename the Atlantic or Pacific, "maybe both." He previously posted an image renaming the Strait of Hormuz 'Trump Strait'."}

Al Jazeera cited Lebanese sources saying Hezbollah could be part of a solution if it speaks in line with Lebanon’s position and focuses on resolving the issue. Officials are trying to remove the "weapons issue" as a pretext; a Hezbollah refusal would force it to answer to the Lebanese public and its supporters. The international community broadly views Hezbollah as unable to be disarmed by force or in the short term.