It’s no secret that this winter has been very tough on Montreal’s streets and sidewalks, but one particular stretch of sidewalk east of downtown is being heavily criticized for an out-of-the-ordinary paving job. Near the corner of Papineau Avenue and Sherbrooke Street, a stretch of the sidewalk has been covered in asphalt and decked out […]
SANTIAGO, Chile — What will happen to Venezuela’s opposition leader, and the movement he leads, when he returns to Venezuela? That question has been asked across South America since Juan Guaidó left his country more than a week ago, defying a travel ban from Venezuela’s courts to embark on a largely improvised tour of the […]
A man and his dog who were trapped by deep snow in their vehicle in central Oregon for five days survived by eating taco sauce, US police say. Jeremy Taylor, 36, and his dog Ally left to buy gas on Sunday 24 February but failed to return and on Wednesday a missing person’s report was […]
The Canadian Red Cross says a family of four has been displaced by a fire that destroyed their two-storey farmhouse in rural New Brunswick on Saturday. The aid agency says that the fire occurred overnight in the community of Beechwood, about 15 kilometres north of Florenceville, N.B. The family of four, a couple with two […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US diplomats have visited a dual US-Saudi national who was reported to have been tortured while imprisoned in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, a top White House official said Sunday (March 3). The New York Times, citing the detailed account of an unnamed friend, said guards dragged Walid Fitaihi, a Harvard-trained doctor, […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil left prison this weekend to attend the funeral of his 7-year-old grandson, reiterating to an audience of political leaders and relatives who had gathered to mourn that he is not guilty of corruption and money laundering. Mr. da Silva, who was jailed […]
A mysterious bang Saturday night rattled some residents of Salmon Arm in the BC interior. At approximately 8:45 p.m. homes shook from Sicamous to Tappen and had residents texting frantically on social media speculating about everything from an explosion to a meteor strike to some other, rather ‘fantastic’ theories. Global News spoke with Salmon Arm […]
LOS ANGELES (NYTIMES) – Two Sacramento police officers who shot and killed an unarmed black man in his grandmother’s backyard last year will not face criminal prosecution, the Sacramento County district attorney has announced, stirring fresh outrage in a city roiled by protests over the killing. For nearly a year, community members and activists have […]
A special counsel is in place to oversee the investigation looking into alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election, and if Trump campaign figures were complicit. Robert Mueller, who headed the FBI for more than a decade, was appointed in May 2017. But what is a special counsel? And what powers does he have? […]
A woman has died from injuries after slipping and falling off a naturalized trail in the area of Etobicoke Creek. The 24-year-old woman was with her boyfriend walking the trail when she slipped and fell, according to police. Police say the fall was accidental, they do not believe it to be criminal and are currently […]