2019-12-07
If there are two things Canadians never tire of discussing, they would be the state of the weather, and the condition of the health-care system. It sometimes seems we have no more sense of control over the second than we do over the first. In the speech from the throne on Thursday, read by Governor […]
2019-12-07
Baghdad: Sixteen people were killed and 45 others wounded here on Friday when unidentified assailants opened fire on anti-government protesters, a source in the interior ministry said. The attackers entered Baghdad’s al-Khalani Square in a convoy of four-wheel-drive vehicles and started shooting at people gathered there for a demonstration, the source told Efe, speaking on […]
2019-12-06
Walking into the Nerf Challenge, it’s impossible not to have a huge grin on your face. I got to visit the 50,000-square-foot venue in Los Angeles and try many of the incredibly fun experiences. As a lifelong fan of Nerf toys, I couldn’t have been more thrilled. The first challenge, Wrecking Bowling, involves riding a […]
2019-12-06
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s outgoing prime minister called on several Arab and world leaders Friday to help his country secure credit lines for imports from friendly nations as the tiny Mediterranean country passes through its worst economic and financial crisis in decades. According to a statement released by his office, Saad Hariri sent letters to the […]
2019-12-05
Rosetta – A boat carrying up to 450 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean off Egypt’s north coast on Wednesday, drowning 42 people and prompting a search operation that rescued 163 passengers, officials said. The vessel overturned off the port city of Rosetta, police and health officials said. Five survivors, handcuffed to beds in a Rosetta […]
2019-12-05
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosion Thursday called on House Democratic leaders to begin drafting articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. “Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment,” she said Thursday, in what was billed as a special announcement about the “status” of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump. Lawmakers […]
2019-12-05
VILLA UNION, MEXICO —Authorities in northern Mexico have raised the death toll from weekend gunbattles in the small town of Villa Union to 24. Coahuila state authorities say another suspect’s body has been found after a search of the area following the clashes Saturday and Sunday. According to death counts, gunmen from the Noreste drug […]
2019-12-04
QUEBEC CITY — François Legault is determined to set Hydro rates before the end of the year – and said on Wednesday he’ll invoke closure if he has to. Legault said he’s determined to pass Bill 34 on electricity rates before Jan. 1, 2020; the parliamentary session at the National Assembly ends this Friday. The […]
2019-12-04
Tunisia held its first free municipal elections on Sunday but only one in three eligible voters cast ballots, reflecting frustration at the slow pace of change since the 2011 revolution in the cradle of the Arab Spring. The election has been touted as another milestone on the road to democracy in the North African country, […]
2019-12-03
2019-12-03
Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s tenure was to end on November 29, 2019, but the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan granted him an extension. General Bajwa’s extension as Pakistan Army Chief seems to have triggered a wave of rebellion across the Pakistani Army. A total of seven Army Lieutenant Generals are strictly […]
2019-12-03
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed four Chadian troops early on Monday in a newly established military outpost on Lake Chad, the military and local officials said. Boko Haram has training camps on several of the islands that dot the vast, shallow Lake Chad, which straddles the borders of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon as well as […]
2019-12-02
At least 24 Tunisians were killed and 18 more injured Sunday when a bus plunged off a cliff into a ravine in the country’s north, officials said. The bus had set off from Tunis to the picturesque mountain town of Ain Draham, a popular autumn destination for Tunisians near the Algerian border, the tourism ministry […]
2019-12-01
But to Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, she is the daughter he praises for her year of “suffering.” “She should be proud to have been caught in this situation. In the fight between the two nations, she became a bargaining chip,” Ren said in an interview with CNN Business on Tuesday. Meng was detained […]
2019-12-01
Authorities say nine people have been killed after a plane crashed in South Dakota. Peter Knudson with the National Transportation Safety Board tells The Associated Press 12 people were aboard the Pilatus PC-12 when it crashed about 12:30 pm on Saturday, shortly after taking off from Chamberlain, about 140 miles (225.3 kilometers west of Sioux […]
2019-11-30
Hundreds of public sector workers circled the Calgary hotel hosting the governing United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting Saturday, chanting and shouting in –15 Cweather while about 1,600 party members met inside. Teachers, nursesand government workers marched in protest of cuts to public services and the potential loss of thousands of public sector jobs announced […]
2019-11-30
KALAMAZOO, Mich. – For more than 30 years and under five presidents, Republican Rep. Fred Upton easily won reelection to his southwest Michigan House seat by touting “common-sense values” and bipartisan accomplishments. Republicans and even many Democrats have appreciated his moderate views and the way he hustled around the district on his days back home, […]
2019-11-29
TIRANA, ALBANIA —The operation to find survivors and recover bodies from Albania’s deadly earthquake was winding down Friday, with rescue crews limiting their efforts to a collapsed beachfront hotel in the port town of Durres as the death toll climbed to 49. Albanian, Serb and Montenegrin rescue crews were working through the ruins of the […]
2019-11-28
BERLIN: Germany is planning to tighten legislation on anti-Semitic crimes, a minister said on Thursday following a deadly attack aimed at a synagogue in Halle in former east Germany last month. Justice minister Christine Lambrecht told parliament that anti-Semitism would be made an aggravating factor for hate crimes in the criminal code. The current law […]
2019-11-28
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the South African Cabin Crew Association say they are pleased that they secured the 8% wage increase they demanded from South African Airways. SAA initially would not budge from offering 5.9%. The new wage increase agreed to on Friday is, however, subject to the necessary funds […]
2019-11-27
Photo:What happens in far-flung Xinjiang is more easily hidden from prying eyes than the global city of Hong Kong. On a pedestrian overpass in Hong Kong’s battle-scarred township of Tuen Mun, a protester scrawled a slogan which speaks to the predicament facing the mutinous residents of the Chinese enclave. “Today #Xinjiang, tomorrow Hong Kong, we […]
2019-11-27
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Latest on President Donald Trump’s rally in Florida (all times local: 7:30 p.m. There’s a new chant at an election rally for President Donald Trump: “Conan, Conan.” Rallygoers delighted Tuesday in Vice-President Mike Pence’s mention of the U.S. military dog that played a starring role in the raid that […]
2019-11-26
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis in Downing Street arriving for the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall, central London. Jonathan Brady – PA Images | PA Images | Getty Images With just over two weeks until the U.K. general election, the country’s chief rabbi has attacked the main opposition Labour party, claiming its […]
2019-11-26
Namibia votes in a general election on Wednesday with 11 candidates running for president. Here are the four frontrunners. The incumbent Hage Geingob, the 78-year-old leader of the long-ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO, was elected president in 2014 after serving as prime minister for a total of 14 years. He chaired a 21-member […]
2019-11-25
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola admitted his assistant Mikel Arteta will become a manager “sooner or later” after the Spaniard was repeatedly linked to the Arsenal job. With Unai Emery’s sacking at Arsenal now acknowledged by many to be inevitable, after the dire 1-1 draw with Southampton stretched the Gunners’ winless run to six successive […]