There is no end in sight for the cold spell on British Columbia’s South Coast. Global News meteorologist Mark Madryga says it will be another very cold morning under a clear sky in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday as temperatures will dip close to -8 C. “The record for the Vancouver airport on this date is […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Wednesday found a Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses guilty of organizing the activities of a banned extremist organization and jailed him for six years in a case Western governments cast as a test of religious freedom. Armed police detained Dennis Christensen, a 46-year-old builder, in May 2017 […]

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand defended on Wednesday its arrest of a Bahraini footballer with refugee status in Australia, saying officials only detained him because Australian authorities sent an Interpol “red notice” after he boarded a plane to Bangkok. Hakeem Al Araibi’s case has drawn international criticism as a Thai court considers an extradition request from […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government has reassured the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) it will stick to its plans to continue increasing military spending to reach 1.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2024 despite declining tax revenues, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Tuesday. Those plans had been called into question on Monday after […]

Facebook has finally promised the feature that internet users have been pining for — the ability to delete a regretful message from their chat history. The functionality was originally introduced for Facebook executives in 2014, after Sony Pictures’ email accounts were hacked. The technology news site TechCrunch reported last April that multiple people who’d received […]

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Pope Francis, whose papacy has been marked by efforts to quell a global crisis over sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy, said on Tuesday he was committed to stopping the abuse of nuns by priests and bishops, some of whom had used the women as sex slaves. Francis […]

WASHINGTON’S BIRTHPLACE, Va. — It was cold crouching down in this homemade goose blind on the edge of a frozen cornfield near the Potomac River. The early-morning January sun gave off considerably less heat than a light bulb. All we had to eat was a communal bag of venison jerky, a satsuma and, eventually, the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is sending food and medical supplies to Colombia’s border with Venezuela where it will be stockpiled until it can be delivered to the economically shattered nation, U.S. officials with knowledge of the plan said on Tuesday. One official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the aid will be prepositioned […]

Headliner Wayan It runs in the family. Cedric Vongerichten, 37, the son of the chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, has opened a restaurant blending Asia and France, just as his father did. When it comes to Asia, the younger Mr. Vongerichten looks not to Thailand, but to Indonesia, the home country of his wife, Ochi Vongerichten, a […]

Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Francis noted that Pope Benedict XVI had taken action against a France-based order after some of its religious sisters had been reduced to “sexual slavery” at the […]