BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Eastern Libyan forces loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar took over the El-Sharara oilfield on Wednesday, its spokesman said, in a direct challenge to the Tripoli government. The 315,000-barrels a day oilfield has been closed since December when tribesmen and state security forces seized it, making demands for payments and development […]

On Wednesday, the City of Edmonton and NAIT confirmed the school’s 53-acre expansion to the Blatchford development on the old City Centre Airport lands. The consolidation will see two satellite campus sites eventually move to the central Edmonton development. The purchase of two parcels of land from the city means the polytechnic’s main campus will […]

Three people have been arrested in connection with a shooting in Lindsay in November 2018. A 27-year-old man entered Ross Memorial Hospital around 3 a.m. with a gunshot wound, City of Kawartha Lakes Police say. The man was treated for his life-threatening injury and transported to a hospital in the Toronto area. On Wednesday, police […]

SANAA — Conjoined twin boys born in Yemen are in urgent need of treatment abroad, but are unable to leave because the war there has closed the capital city’s airport. Doctors treating two-week-old Abd al-Khaleq and Abd al-Rahim said Yemen‘s war-ravaged health system cannot keep them alive, and the parents are poor. Related Lawmakers push for Congress to pass […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon is committed to launching fast and effective reforms that could be “difficult and painful” to avoid a worsening of economic, financial and social conditions, according to a draft government policy statement seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The statement sets the main policy objectives of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri’s national unity government […]

Police say no injuries were reported after a vehicle drove into a business in Huntsville. According to Huntsville OPP, on Tuesday at around 9:45 a.m., a vehicle jumped the parking lot curb and struck the front window of the M&M Meats on King William Street. Police say no injuries were reported as a result of […]

Good morning. I write from Los Angeles, where I’ve come to seek my fortune for a week, driving and driving in the bright sunshine, endlessly optimistic, the radioman speaking to me from the dashboard until it’s time for tacos again. Here, as at home in Brooklyn, our newspapers were thrown against front doors this morning, […]

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s main opposition on Wednesday snubbed talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa meant to try resolve a political and economic crisis, saying any dialogue with the president would have to be brokered by an independent outside mediator. Mnangagwa, who is under pressure over the deteriorating economy and a security crackdown on anti-government protests […]

SANAA (Reuters) – Conjoined twin boys born in Yemen are in urgent need of treatment abroad, but are unable to leave because the war there has closed the capital city’s airport. Doctors treating two-week-old Abd al-Khaleq and Abd al-Rahim said Yemen’s war-ravaged health system cannot keep them alive, and the parents are poor. “They need […]

Though the Ontario legislature is currently on recess, Kingston Coun. Bridget Doherty is voicing her concerns over Ontario’s Bill 66, specifically Schedule 10 section of the proposed legislation. The proposed law would allow municipalities, with the approval of the minister, to sidestep environmental laws, such as drinking water source protection. Doherty thinks the bill would […]