CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – Much of Venezuela, including parts of the capital Caracas, remained without power on Monday for a fifth day, crimping vital oil exports and leaving people struggling to obtain water and food. President Nicolas Maduro, who has blamed the unprecedented blackout on sabotage by the United States at Venezuela’s Guri hydroelectric […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – The readiness of Germany’s weapons systems stood at about 70 percent in 2018 overall, but its submarines, heavy-lift helicopters and Tornado fighter jets faced continued challenges, the German Defence Ministry told lawmakers on Monday. For instance, Germany had zero submarines that were ready for operations for five months in the first half […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Monday at Bangladesh’s plan to relocate 23,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in April, saying that it may not be habitable, creating a potential “new crisis”. Bangladesh says moving refugees to Bhasan Char – whose name means “floating island” […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin will not reply to a letter from the son of a woman killed by a suspected Russian nerve agent near the English city of Salisbury last year because Russia’s ambassador to Britain has already done so, the Kremlin said on Monday. Ewan Hope called on Putin in a letter […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese hog prices marched to their highest in 14 months on Monday and look set to keep rising after weeks of gains, analysts and producers said, as the worst disease outbreak to hit the country’s vast pig herd in years chops supply. Live hog prices in major consumption and production areas rose […]

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Sunday said he objected to several items in legislation implementing a peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group and will return the law to congress to be adjusted. In an address to the nation, Duque, who campaigned for president pledging to alter […]

Drivers in Coquitlam have one more day of free reign before construction nightmares begin on Como Lake Avenue on Monday. That’s when FortisBC will begin the next phase of its massive gas line replacement project that’s already caused months of traffic delays and lost business in Burnaby and Vancouver since the summer of 2018. The […]

A man has survived more than three hours lost at sea thanks to the buoyancy of his jeans. Arne Murke, a German tourist, had been delivering a yacht from the New Zealand city of Auckland to Brazil with his brother when they struck rough conditions. The 12-metre yacht’s mainsheet came loose and caused the boom […]

CARACAS (Reuters) – Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel on Sunday as the country entered a fourth day of a nationwide blackout that has left already-scarce food rotting in shops, homes suffering for lack of water and cell phones without reception. Authorities have managed to provide only patchy access to power since […]

KIGALI (Reuters) – The spokesman for leading Rwandan opposition politician Victoire Ingabire has been found dead, a government official said on Sunday. It was not immediately clear how 30-year-old Anselme Mutuyimana had died. Twenty-five years after a genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has won international praise […]