BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday fired one of his most senior aides and cabinet members, Gustavo Bebianno, amid a scandal involving campaign financing for some of his party’s congressional candidates. Bebianno was secretary general of the president’s office. His departure punctuated Bolsonaro’s first cabinet crisis since he took office on Jan. […]

Close to a year after the region was swept by historic flood conditions, a professor at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John is looking to speak with people who were affected. “I’m looking to get people’s experiences with the spring flooding in 2018,” said Julia Woodhall-Melnik, an assistant professor in the UNB Department […]

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s electoral commission approved on Monday the resumption of political campaigning, the body said in a statement, after the general elections were delayed by a week last Saturday. On Saturday, the commission’s chairman told parties to stop campaigning, despite the election being postponed from Feb. 16 to Feb. 23. Campaigning is typically […]

(Reuters) – Four of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s senior ministers have urged her to stop using the threat of a no-deal Brexit in divorce negotiations with the European Union, the Guardian newspaper reported on Monday. The ministers – justice minister David Gauke, pensions minister Amber Rudd, business minister Greg Clark and Scotland minister David […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – A hardline Hindu nationalist group in western India will partner with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in coming elections after agreeing a seat-sharing plan in Maharashtra state, the parties said on Monday. The tie-up with the Shiv Sena, a partner in the governing coalition led by the BJP, is […]

Tensions in the disputed Kashmir region have escalated further after four Indian soldiers, three suspected militants, a police official and a civilian were killed during a gun battle. The nine deaths come after a local Kashmiri militant rammed a van fitted with explosives into a paramilitary bus on Thursday, killing at least 40 soldiers. The […]

More than 300 Islamic State militants who are holed up in a tiny area in eastern Syria are refusing to surrender to U.S.-backed Syrian forces and are trying to negotiate an exit. A person familiar with the negotiations says the militants are asking for a corridor to the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib. He spoke […]

Now that Colin Kaepernick and the NFL have settled their much-debated collusion case, we can now discuss where, or if, he will play. Kaepernick, 31, made headlines and provided an endless supply of fodder for radio and television talk shows in 2016 when he kneeled during the playing of the U.S. National Anthem before NFL […]

UBON RATCHATHANI, Thailand (Reuters) – Leaders of Thailand’s biggest opposition party campaigning on Monday never mentioned ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose policies they espouse, nor the princess whose shock candidacy could see its ally banned from the March 24 election. They didn’t need to. Supporters in the northeastern stronghold of the Pheu Thai party are […]

Firefighters have rescued a mountain lion that was stuck in a tree outside a home in the California desert. The homeowner called for help after spotting the cougar close to his home near the edge of the San Bernardino mountains. The big cat was perched on a branch about 15m (50ft) above ground. State wildlife […]