Virginia governor denies being in racist yearbook photo Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Saturday (Feb 2) resisted mounting pressure from his Democratic party that he resign, denying that he appeared in a racist yearbook photo while admitting he once wore blackface in a dance contest. Northam, who took office a year ago, said he would […]

Kim Yo-jong, who is subject to US unilateral sanctions, will visit South for Olympic’s opening ceremony, Seoul says. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister will visit South Korea for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, according to Seoul’s unification ministry. Kim Yo-jong will arrive on Friday to attend the opening ceremony as part of the 22-member delegation […]

Following in the footsteps of the U.S., Russia will abandon a centerpiece nuclear arms treaty but will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if Washington does so, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday. U.S. President Donald Trump accused Moscow on Friday of violating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with “impunity” by deploying banned missiles. Trump said […]

Sick of the cold? So is Manitoba’s most famous groundhog. Manitoba Merv joined the likes of Wiarton Willie and says spring is around the corner, having not seen his shadow at Oak Hammock Marsh Saturday morning on Groundhog Day. But Winnipeg has yet to hear from Winnipeg Wyn, who is actually a real groundhog, compared […]

For years, people have been complaining about the 407 ETR and the outlandish toll prices the private company charges on a road that was initially designed to ease congestion on the 401. Soon, the priority changed from transportation to making money for investors when the Mike Harris government made one of the stupidest mistakes in Ontario political history and sold the 407 to […]

Homicide investigators have been called to Surrey, where one person has died in a shooting. The Surrey RCMP says officers were called to the 13900-block of 58A Avenue around 7:15 p.m. to reports of shots fired. They arrived to find an adult victim suffering from gunshot wounds. Attempts to revive the victim failed, police said. […]

First, the shadows of clouds roll over the foreground, an ominous harbinger of what’s to come. Then, finally, it emerges: a gargantuan morass of muddy mining waste, the product of a deadly collapse at a tailings dam owned by the company Vale SA in Brumandinho, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The dam burst […]

Death toll from a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit Hualien rises to 10 while rescue workers rush to save survivors. Rescue workers combed through the rubble as the death toll from a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit off the coast of eastern Taiwan rose to 10. Authorities revised the number of people who were still missing down from […]

Transportation Minister Saleh al-Gabwani denounces Abu Dhabi’s moves to set up ‘tribal and regional armies’. A Yemeni government minister has accused the United Arab Emirates of trying to fragment the country by creating regional and tribal armies in the south. Yemen’s Transportation Minister Saleh al-Gabwani said the UAE-backed troops cut off his convoy on Sunday […]

While supportive of the aid response, South Sudan’s government worries that it is crippling the nation. One year after South Sudan briefly declared a famine, more than half of the people in the world’s youngest nation face extreme hunger amid civil war and famine that could return, a new report says. More than six million […]