NEW YORK (REUTERS) – US health regulators said on Friday (March 1) a third cancer-causing toxin was found in some blood pressure pills recalled by India’s Hetero Labs a day earlier, adding to a global recall of commonly-used drugs to treat hypertension. The US Food and Drug Administration is also looking into whether these types of […]
A homeless man who broke into a woman’s home and sucked on her toes as she slept faces years in jail . Richard Michael Parkhurst, 29, claimed to be a god-like, mythical man sent from heaven to seduce women. But he was today convicted of one count of burglary , one charge of peeking into […]
The high-profile search for $190 million in missing cryptocurrency owed to users of the beleaguered QuadrigaCX trading platform has turned up a small amount of digital assets, but the intrigue surrounding the case deepened Friday as investigators pointed to a series of transactions they can’t explain. A report released late Friday by court-appointed monitor Ernst […]
It’s only when you dig into the ice on Elgin Crescent in Beaconsfield that you realize just how thick it really is. “It’s up to 10, 12 inches of ice on the road,” said grader operator Chris Morrison, who works for a subcontractor clearing snow for the City of Beaconsfield. Until Thursday, Elgin was one […]
A town in California is “officially an island” after floodwaters inundated roads and left the community only accessible by boat. Guerneville was cut off after the rain-swollen Russian River overflowed its banks during a two-day storm. Residents of the town and more than 20 other wine country communities in Northern California were ordered to evacuate. […]
LIMA (AFP) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck south-eastern Peru on Friday (March 1) but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. It hit in the Andes region in a sparsely populated area. The US Geological Survey said the epicentre was at a depth of 257km. The agency said most […]
After the American college student Otto Warmbier was released from a North Korea prison in 2017, unresponsive and not expected to survive, his father, Fred, spoke of a comforting phone call from President Trump: “It was gracious, it was nice and it felt good.” During Mr. Trump’s State of the Union address in 2018, Fred […]
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A Colombian prosecutor assigned to investigate the country’s largest former rebel group was arrested and accused of accepting a bribe in the case of a former rebel commander wanted in the United States, the authorities said Friday. The prosecutor, Carlos J. Bermeo, had been assigned to a special court established to try […]
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada promised a fresh approach to politics, one that was based on openness, decency and liberalism. Now he is embroiled in a scandal involving accusations of back-room deal-making and bullying tactics, all to support a Canadian company accused of bribing the Libyan government when it was run by […]
BOGOTA (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) – An 11-year-old rape victim in Argentina was forced to deliver her baby prematurely by caesarean section despite requesting an abortion, sparking an outcry by women’s rights campaigners. The girl became pregnant after being raped by her grandmother’s 65-year-old boyfriend, according to local media reports. When she was 19 weeks pregnant […]