The father and uncle of James Bulger want information that they say is “common knowledge” about the toddler’s killer, Jon Venables, to be made public. Ralph and Jimmy Bulger are challenging a lifelong anonymity order made in relation to Venables in 2001. Lawyers for the brothers told the High Court that something had “gone wrong” […]

Passengers stranded on an Amtrak train for more than a day in a remote and snowed-in part of Oregon after it hit a tree that had fallen on the tracks said the train was moving again Tuesday. “It’s just like relief. I’m just excited to get off of here,” Abbie Jeffrey, 16, told the KGW […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey criticized European Union leaders on Tuesday for attending a summit hosted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi days after nine men were executed for killing Egypt’s chief prosecutor. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said it was hypocritical for EU leaders, who have told Ankara that reinstating the death penalty in Turkey would […]

Just under 2,500 customers are without power south of Winnipeg, including hundreds in the town of Morris, due to an outage Tuesday morning. Manitoba Hydro said they were heading to the scene but were unsure of the cause. Temperatures south of Winnipeg Tuesday were in the -25C range with a windchill hovering around -38. Source: […]

DOHA/KABUL (Reuters) – American and Taliban officials looking to end a 17-year war in Afghanistan began their most detailed and high-level discussions yet on foreign troop withdrawals and counter-terrorism on Tuesday, officials close to the peace negotiations said. The talks, which kicked off in Doha on Monday with a meet-and-greet lunch, are seen as the […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May is proposing that parliament votes on whether to leave the European Union without a deal or delay Brexit if her exit deal fails to win parliamentary approval, a Daily Telegraph reporter said on Twitter. “The PM (Prime Minister) has said there will be a three line whip […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will consider the view of the World Court on control of the Chagos Islands but the dispute is with Mauritius and should be resolved bilaterally, British foreign office minister Alan Duncan said on Tuesday. On Monday the International Court of Justice (ICJ) told Britain to give up control over the Chagos […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Tuesday propose formally ruling out a no-deal Brexit in a bid to avoid a rebellion by lawmakers who are threatening to grab control of the divorce process, The Sun and Daily Mail newspapers reported. As the United Kingdom’s labyrinthine Brexit crisis goes down to the […]

HANOI (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump after traveling from the North Korean capital by train, a Reuters witness said. Kim’s train arrived at the station in the Vietnamese town of Dong Dang after crossing over the border from China, […]

The former Vatican treasurer has been found guilty of abusing teenage choir boys by a court in Melbourne. Cardinal George Pell was actually convicted of five offences in December last year, but details of the verdicts were kept secret for fear they would prejudice a second trial he was facing. Those charges have now been […]