A 16-year-old girl is facing public mischief charges after police allege the teen faked her abduction. Halifax District RCMP say they responded to a call of an abduction just before 6 p.m. Nov. 10 in Fall River. READ: Nova Scotia RCMP investigating attempted abduction of 14-year-old girl The girl had been sending texts to her mother to […]
Hundreds gathered in Confederation Square in Peterborough on Sunday morning to witness the Remembrance Day Service that marked the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Honorary colonel Ken Armstrong of the Hastings Prince Edward Regiment didn’t know what to expect with wintry weather and cooler conditions but was taken aback by […]
Canada is in discussions with Pakistan about granting asylum to a Pakistani Christian woman recently acquitted of blasphemy, according to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Asia Bibi spent eight years on death row before a Pakistani court overturned her sentence and she was freed. Her release sparked violent protests from Islamists in the country. Mr […]
A 27-year-old Hamilton man has been charged after a traffic complaint in Port Dover. The OPP were called around 11:30 p.m. Saturday about a pickup truck driving aggressively on Highway 6 northbound. Officers located the vehicle travelling into Jarvis and eventually into Hagersville, where the vehicle was stopped. While speaking with the driver, police say […]
MCALLEN, Tex. — The Border Patrol agent, she remembers, was calm when he tied her to the tree and put silver duct tape over her mouth. He said very little. She was a 14-year-old undocumented immigrant who had just crossed the Rio Grande, traveling with a teenage friend and the friend’s mother from Honduras. They […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Wildfires raging in California are among the deadliest recorded in the United States, with at least 31 people killed in the state as 250,000 flee their homes. The largest and most destructive of the blazes is the “Camp Fire” in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, which started on November 9 […]
In March 1990, L. Ling-chi Wang got on a plane to Washington, where he felt that his words were being twisted. The University of California, Berkeley, professor had recently scored a victory when the school acknowledged it disproportionately hurt Asian-American applicants in its admissions, amid a wave of similar allegations of discrimination sweeping more than […]
The grim task of recovering and identifying the victims of California’s apocalyptic wildfires began yesterday as officials raised the death toll to 25, with more than 100 people unaccounted for. With severe, hot and dry ‘devil winds’ expected to continue throughout today, fire-fighters have been unable to contain the inferno in Butte County, in the […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – North Korea is moving ahead with its ballistic missile programme at 16 hidden bases that have been identified in new commercial satellite images, a network long known to US intelligence agencies but left undiscussed as President Donald Trump claims to have neutralised the North’s nuclear threat. The satellite images suggest that the […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has dismissed accusations by North Korea that he engaged in “gangster-like” behaviour during a visit there. After two days of talks with senior officials, he said efforts to push Pyongyang towards abandoning nuclear weapons had international backing. He stressed that denuclearisation was a condition for lifting sanctions. It was […]