BRUSSELS (Reuters) – When plans for a summit between the European Union and the Arab League were first hatched last year, it was envisioned as the start of a new friendship across the Mediterranean. What a difference a few months makes. The EU hopes that improving ties with its Arab neighbors would help advance its […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department called on countries to take in and prosecute hundreds of foreign fighters captured by America’s Kurdish allies in Syria as the United States withdraws troops from the country. The department’s spokesman, Robert Palladino, did not say how many prisoners were detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces – an […]

One person was taken to hospital after a dump truck crashed off Highway 115 in Peterborough on Monday morning. Peterborough Police and Peterborough County OPP say that just before 6:30 a.m., a southbound dump truck veered off the Highway 115 overpass, crashed through guard rails and ended up in a ditch near Bensfort and Kennedy […]

-50 wind chills return with the biggest blast of cold of the year to kickoff February. January 2019 January 2019 was way warmer and drier than normal in Saskatoon. The city saw half of its normal precipitation throughout the period with only 7.2 millimetres of rain, freezing rain and melted snow at the airport when […]

A Louisiana police officer escorting a funeral procession on his motorcycle was killed in a collision on Friday, less than a year after surviving being shot in the face. Baton Rouge police officer, Cpl. Shane Totty, died Friday after a pickup truck plowed into the officer’s motorcycle during a funeral procession. According to Baton Rouge’s […]

Hamilton Police are investigating the city’s fourth shooting incident this year, this time in the city’s north end. Police say the incident happened about 7 p.m. on Sunday in the area of Wentworth St. North and Barton Street East.  Police were sent to the location on a “shots fired” call, but by the time they […]

A 33-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital and a 38-year-old woman is seriously injured after a snowmobile crash in a community north of Exeter over the weekend. Emergency services responded to a home on York Crescent in Hensall around 9 p.m. Saturday, and found the pair, both from Hensall, on the driveway. […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday said he would discuss the situation in Venezuela with a U.S. official and representatives of other countries at an upcoming Washington conference, stressing it was key to maintain pressure on Venezuela. Maas said he would travel to Washington on Wednesday and hold talks with White […]

The Israeli government released a report Sunday claiming to reveal close links between the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel and militant groups. Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry, which leads the country’s efforts against the boycott movement, said it uncovered extensive connections between pro-boycott groups and activists affiliated with Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would seek a “pragmatic solution” to a parliamentary impasse over the terms on which Britain leaves the European Union when she tries to reopen talks with Brussels. With less than two months until Britain is due to leave the bloc on March 29, […]