LAGOS — Many people including children were feared trapped on Wednesday after a building containing a school collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, an emergency agency spokesman said, as rescue efforts began. Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency’s southwest region, said there was no immediate information on any casualties. “It is believed […]

Nova Scotia is proposing legislation that would set rules for coastal construction and protect features such as salt marshes and dunes as sea levels rise in the future. Environment Minister Margaret Miller says the new Coastal Protection Act will ensure clear provincewide rules for what can and cannot be done along the province’s vulnerable coastlines. […]

Weather south of the Manitoba border have local flood expert recalculating their forecasts. North Dakotans are expecting another extreme blizzard this week, which may add another foot to the foot they already got last weekend. Andrew Moore, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, told 680 CJOB the region will see a significant […]

ADDIS ABABA/OSLO (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines said on Wednesday it would send the black boxes from its crashed Boeing 737 MAX abroad, while a Norwegian airline sought compensation from the U.S. planemaker after two thirds of that model were grounded globally. Sunday’s still unexplained crash of the passenger jet, just after take-off from Addis Ababa […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Wednesday it would eliminate import tariffs on a wide range of goods and avoid a so-called hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The government announced the moves, which it said would be temporary, ahead of a vote by lawmakers later on […]

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Almost every day, “Janda”, a self-described Indonesian housewife with 2,000 Twitter followers, dispenses lifestyle tips, complains about city life, and praises how the government of President Joko Widodo has improved her life as a young mother. But Janda the housewife does not exist. The Twitter account’s real owner is an unmarried middle-aged […]

WASHINGTON/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The U.S. aviation regulator said on Tuesday it would not ground Boeing Co 737 MAX planes after a crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people, bucking a trend of countries around the world that have suspended the aircraft’s operations. The Federal Aviation Administration’s acting administrator, Dan Elwell, said a review by […]

An Abbotsfrod couple is speaking out about what they call an identity theft nightmare. Scotiabank has been sending Joey Abra and his wife letters to start paying a $99,378.80 loan that was taken out to purchase a 2016 Range Rover. It turns out Joey Abra’s wife was the victim of identity theft. On Dec. 5, […]

WASHINGTON/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The U.S. aviation regulator said on Tuesday it would not ground Boeing Co 737 MAX planes after a crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people, bucking a trend of countries around the world that have suspended the aircraft’s operations. The Federal Aviation Administration’s acting administrator, Dan Elwell, said a review by […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military has not been asked to assist with the removal of American diplomatic personnel from Venezuela, the top U.S. military commander for the region told Reuters, adding they were expected to depart the country by commercial means. “Right now, we’ve not been asked to support that evacuation,” Admiral Craig Faller, […]