WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is holding direct communications with members of Venezuela’s military urging them to abandon leader Nicolas Maduro and is also preparing new sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on him, a senior White House official said. The Trump administration expects further military defections from Maduro’s side, the official told Reuters in […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is ready to engage in talks with the Netherlands about the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko was quoted as saying on Friday. “Our dialogue did not stop, including on a political level,” he said, according to Interfax news agency. “We touch upon those issues, […]

Three men from Kingston, Ont., are facing second-degree murder charges in the fatal shooting of a man in Trent River, Ont., last summer. In the early morning hours of Aug. 18, 2018, police say Scott McDonald, 43, was shot in the driveway of his rental cabin residence on Church Street in the hamlet of Trent […]

A water main break in East Vancouver has led to traffic disruptions and the closure of a school on Thursday. A break in an eight-inch main pipe at Prince Edward St. and East 5th Ave. may have been weather-related. The sidewalk in the area has been compromised and closed. Water spilled down the hill onto […]

BELO HORIZONTE/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Some 700 people were evacuated early on Friday from Brazilian towns near two separate tailings dams operated by Vale SA and ArcelorMittal on mounting fears of a recurrence of last month’s deadly dam burst nearby. The collapse two weeks ago unleashed an avalanche of mud that engulfed nearby buildings […]

BANGKOK (Reuters) – The sister of Thailand’s king entered the race to become prime minister on Friday as the candidate of a populist party, an unprecedented foray into politics by a royal that instantly upended the first election since a 2014 military coup. Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi, 67, the elder sister of King Maha […]

The Angrignon Boulevard Overpass — a crucial link to LaSalle that runs over the Lachine Canal and Highway 20 — is going to narrow to one alternating lane starting Monday. The situation is slated to persist for a solid year. “Closing it down to one lane is just going to make it insane,” said Esther […]

-50 wind chills finally roll out as a warm-up kicks in for the weekend. Extreme cold warning Environment Canada has continued an extreme cold warning for Saskatoon and most of Saskatchewan for -40 to -55 wind chills persisting into the weekend. An arctic high-pressure ridge has settled in over Saskatchewan with -40 degree temperature readings […]

A man was found not guilty of attempted murder, but guilty on lesser charges including assault with a weapon, after a downtown shooting involving Saskatoon police in September 2017. A Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench judge found Mike Arcand, 35, also guilty of four other gun-related offences in connection to the incident that caused chaos […]

(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May has approached a number of members of parliament from the opposition Labour Party to put forward an amendment to her withdrawal motion, The Sun newspaper reported late on Thursday. May is planning to back a new package of workers’ rights in a deal with some members of the […]