WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is set to announce “concrete steps” and “clear actions” to address the Venezuela crisis when he meets on Monday with regional leaders in Bogota, Colombia, a senior U.S. administration official said. The official declined to comment on what the new measures would entail ahead of Pence’s speech, […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police on Sunday arrested and later released a senior Muslim cleric who helps administrate a sacred compound in the Old City, two days after he re-opened a mosque sealed by Israel during a Palestinian uprising in 2003. Sheikh Abdel-Azeem Salhab, who sits on the religious council appointed by Jordan to oversee […]

HANOI (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un set off by train for Vietnam on Saturday, for his second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump next week, media reported, and hours later, two witnesses saw a train crossing into China from North Korea. The reports of Kim’s departure from North Korea came after Vietnam […]

A dump of overnight snow in the Okanagan has created fantastic skiing conditions. Big White Resort near Kelowna is reporting that it received 42 centimetres of new snow in the last 24 hours. Big White said it has passed the five-metre mark in snowfall this sesaon. “Conditions could not get any better,” Big White said […]

The Young Authors’ Conference in Sherwood Park is celebrating 30 years of inspiring young minds to think and write creatively. About 350 students in grades 4 to 9 attended the conference held at F.R. Haythorne Junior High on Saturday. “I think, 30 years ago, some people had a dream that they really wanted kids to […]

Flowers designed by the Duchess of Sussex and her best friends at her baby shower were donated to child cancer patients and elderly men. Meghan, who is seven months pregnant, flew to New York last week for a five-day celebration of the impending arrival of her first child with her celebrity friends, including tennis star […]

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia destroyed an infamous apartment building which was once home to drug trafficker Pablo Escobar in a controlled implosion on Friday, after the site became a tourist destination. The “Monaco” apartments, where Escobar lived in the 1980s, were a symbol of evil, Medellin Mayor Federico Gutierrez told journalists. Gutierrez lamented that the […]

We Americans don’t cook nearly enough sausage bakes. In Britain, those glorious one-pan meals of vegetables topped with browned sausages are standard weeknight fare — easy to throw together, endlessly variable and as cozy and warming as supper should be. Here, in the United States, we are more likely to roast a chicken over those […]

A 27-year-old Kitchener woman has been arrested in connection with an investigation involving the death of a toddler. Waterloo Regional Police say they found a 20-month-old girl “without vital signs” at a home on Heritage Drive about noon on Thursday. The officers attempted CPR until paramedics arrived. Life-saving measures continued as the toddler was transported […]

A very powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake has struck eastern Ecuador close to its border with Peru. The US Geological Survey said the quake happened 71 miles southeast of the town of Palora, in the Morona Santiago province, at a depth of 82 miles. Most major earthquakes in South America are at shallow depths of 70km […]