A man who killed an elderly couple in their north Edmonton home in 2016 will spend just under 11 years behind bars. Edward Kyle Roberts received his sentence Thursday afternoon in an Edmonton courtroom. A judge set the sentence at 15 years for each death and 10 years for break and enter. The sentences are […]

Government minister says ‘Buddhist extremists’ are behind the anti-Muslim attacks this week, following the Easter Sunday attacks. Sri Lanka’s government has said the country is now peaceful enough that it can lift nationwide evening curfews that have been in effect since Monday. The curfews were imposed after gangs attacked mosques and Muslim businesses. The government […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A crime reporter has been shot and killed in the beach resort of Playa del Carmen on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said on Thursday, the latest in a rising death toll of journalists under the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The body of Francisco Romero, a police reporter for […]

A pair of Canada geese who chose the Royal Alexandra Hospital garden to nest — and who became the subjects of a live “Goose Cam” — have welcomed their new additions. On May 16, six goslings hatched at the Ted and Lois Hole Healing Garden in the Robbins Pavilion. While new babies aren’t uncommon at […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A small Turkish center-right party said on Thursday it would not take part in next month’s re-run of the Istanbul mayoral election, which the main opposition party candidate won by a tiny margin in March. The potential impact of the Democrat Party’s withdrawal was not immediately clear as it did not immediately […]

An Okanagan resident claims to have heard rapid-fire gunshots on Wednesday evening, then saw two people running away. A Vernon resident says she heard gunshots on Wednesday evening at approximately 9 p.m. The incident allegedly took place in the area of 41st Avenue in Vernon around 9 p.m. On Thursday morning, RCMP vehicles could be […]

PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron will meet eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar in the middle of next week to discuss how to resume peace talks in the country, a French presidential source said on Thursday. Macron last week called for a ceasefire in the month-long battle for Libya’s capital Tripoli after meeting U.N.-backed […]

A man and woman face theft charges following a shoplifting complaint at an LCBO store in Norwood on Wednesday evening. Peterborough County OPP say a man and woman entered the LCBO on Highway 7 in the village east of Peterborough and allegedly stole a bottle of whiskey. The pair then left the store and the […]

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan ex police commissioner Ivan Simonovis has left his home despite being under house arrest, opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Thursday. Simonovis’ escape follows the surprise April 30 release of former mayor Leopoldo Lopez, who was under house arrest until agents of the Sebin intelligence service helped him escape amid a […]

MERTHYR TYDFIL, Wales (Reuters) – Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage is one of the few politicians in Britain enjoying this month’s elections to the European parliament. In fact, he’s relishing it. Farage, a 55-year-old former commodities broker, is one of Britain’s foremost critics of what he describes as an institution at the heart of a failing […]