BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes targeted Islamic State weapons stores on Sunday as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an attack against the jihadists’ enclave at Baghouz near the Iraqi border, SDF official Mustafa Bali said. In a post on Twitter, Bali said the attack began at 6 p.m. (1600 GMT). “Direct and fierce” […]

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Counting in the vote to elect the governor of the oil-rich southern Nigerian state of Rivers was suspended on Sunday, the electoral commission said, following violence at polling stations and collation centers. Voters went the polls on Saturday to choose governors in 29 of Nigeria’s 36 states, two weeks after a […]

ALGIERS (Reuters) – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika landed in Algeria on Sunday Ennahar TV said, after spending two weeks in a Swiss hospital while protesters have massed at home in the biggest threat to his 20-year rule. An Algerian government plane transporting the president arrived at Boufarik military airport just southwest of the capital. Top Algerian […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy wants to join China’s giant “Belt and Road” infrastructure plan to boost Italian exports, not to strengthen political ties with the Asian giant, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Sunday. Di Maio was responding to U.S. concerns at the prospect of a key ally supporting the Chinese initiative. A […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Hundreds of “yellow vest” protesters began marches in Paris on Saturday, marking the 17th straight weekend of anti-government demonstrations despite attempts by French President Emmanuel Macron to quell discontent with a nationwide series of debates. Protesters wearing the neon high-visibility vests that have come to symbolize the movement were joined by others […]

In a blow to the Trump administration’s U.S.-Mexico border strategy, a federal court judge in California has expanded the number of migrant families separated at the border that the government may be required to reunite. San Diego-based U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw late on Friday issued a preliminary ruling that would potentially expand by […]

Penticton RCMP are seeking the public’s help as they investigate an assault on an pregnant woman that happened in February. The woman, who is 8-months pregnant, was walking in a parking lot at 60 Calgary Ave. on her way home at 3:15 p.m. Feb. 20, according to police, when she was struck in the face. […]

R. Kelly had “no right to take advantage of me when I was only a 13-year-old child,” said a now-30-year-old woman who alleges that the singer had sex with her on numerous occasions. That’s according to allegations addressed in a statement that was released Friday through Gloria Allred, the unnamed woman’s lawyer. In the statement, […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md.  — Maryland’s highest court denied a new trial Friday for a man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial. In a 4-3 opinion, the Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that Adnan Syed’s legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that […]

Almost a dozen people have been arrested, following a drugs and weapons investigation by Hamilton Police. Investigators from the Make Safe task force seized four firearms and a number of illegal drugs during three search warrants Thursday. The task force was formed in response to a rise in shootings in 2019 which, police say, are […]