Israel’s attorney general has said he intends to indict prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges. Mr Netanyahu is suspected of accepting gifts, including cigars and champagne, from wealthy businessmen and dispensing favours in return for favourable media coverage. It is the first time a serving Israeli PM has been put on official notice of […]

Waterloo Regional Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing Cambridge woman. Police say that Eileen Holley was last seen in December. The 35-year-old is known to frequent downtown Kitchener and Cambridge. Holley is described as five feet seven inches, 120 lbs., with a partially shaved head and blue eyes. Police are […]

The second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un has ended without a deal, with the US president walking away from talks with the North Korean leader. Billed as the next stage in the denuclearisation of the secretive nation, and a time to potentially bring a peace deal to formally end the Korean war, […]

SKRYHALIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian pensioner Nadiya Ignatiy says she has had the plum and cherry trees in her garden cut down for firewood since the government raised gas prices late last year. In next month’s election, she will vote against President Petro Poroshenko in favour of an opponent who has pledged to restore the […]

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) – Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire briefly along the contested border in Kashmir on Thursday morning, a day after the two nuclear powers both downed enemy jets, with Pakistan capturing an Indian pilot. The United States, China and other world powers have urged restraint from the two nations as tensions escalate […]

A British climber whose mother made history scaling Mount Everest before her death during an ill-fated expedition on K2 has disappeared on a notoriously dangerous peak in Pakistan known as Killer Mountain. Tom Ballard, from the Peak District, is attempting to navigate the treacherous Nanga Parbat, which has been given its foreboding nickname due to […]

I can’t say that I am at all surprised after learning that Johnny Manziel has crashed out of the Canadian Football League. On Wednesday, the Montreal Alouettes announced they had released the quarterback based on the direction of the CFL after Manziel contravened the agreement that made him eligible to play in the league. In […]

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and Pakistan both said they shot down each other’s fighter jets on Wednesday, with Pakistan capturing an Indian pilot a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a 1971 war, prompting world powers to urge restraint. Both countries have ordered air strikes over the last […]

HANOI (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will hold another day of talks at their second summit in eight months on Thursday, after swapping compliments at a dinner but giving no sign of progress on the key issue of denuclearization. Trump hailed “a very special relationship” when he […]

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he’s worried that if the president doesn’t win re-election, there will not be a “peaceful transition of power.” Cohen is testifying Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee. He told the committee in closing remarks that his loyalty to Donald Trump has cost him his job, his family and his […]