CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president, Juan Guaido, said on Thursday that agents from a feared special police unit had called at his home, a sign of increasing pressure on the opposition leader trying to replace socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The police had asked for his wife, who was at home with their 20-month […]

Illegal detention centres, extortion and slavery common as asylum seekers use country as jumping-off point to reach Europe. Stripped naked, a man writhes in pain on the floor as heated plastic is dripped on his back. Other men are beaten while their kidnappers discuss ransom money. These are the scenes depicted in graphic new videos […]

Only half of the projected $500m that the G5 Sahel force needs has been raised, and African leaders are pushing the international community for more funding. The European Union is doubling its funding for an African body aimed at combatting armed groups across the Sahel region. Leaders of five African countries are in Brussels for […]

A Newmarket man has pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death for a fatal crash that claimed the life of Stuart Ellis in November 2017. Ellis, a 28-year-old husband and father from Beeton, had just learned he was expecting a second child. Twenty-one-year-old Tyler Nielsen listened with his head down as Crown Attorney Paul Tate […]

A member of the Canadian Armed Forces has been charged with sexual assault in connection with an incident that allegedly occurred over the summer. In a news release Thursday, the Department of National Defence (DND) said the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS) received a complaint on Aug. 16 by a third party regarding a […]

PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) – France, Germany and Britain have opened a new channel for non-dollar trade with Iran to avert U.S. sanctions, although diplomats say it is unlikely to allow for the big transactions that Tehran says it needs to keep a nuclear deal afloat. Washington’s major European allies opposed last year’s decision by U.S. President […]

Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al Thani is the latest in a line of public figures to accuse Abu Dhabi of holding them against their will. Qatar’s human rights committee says the detention of a member of the royal family by the United Arab Emirates is illegal and violates human rights laws. Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali […]

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The Sudanese army issued a statement on Wednesday saying it would not allow the state to collapse, following weeks of mass protests demanding an end to President Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year rule. Some activists had been calling for the military to back the protesters and pressure the government to step down. “The armed […]

The RCMP revealed some figures on Wednesday relating to two recent pilot projects aimed at reducing rural crime in central Alberta. “The first project launched in the northern region surrounding Wetaskiwin and ran from April 16, 2018 until Aug. 16, 2018,” police said in a news release. “Following that, the Sylvan Lake region was part […]

CAIRO (Reuters) – A bigger presence of relief agencies, U.N. workers and diplomats in Libya has done little to ease the plight of migrants abused in detention centers and blocked from crossing the Mediterranean, migrants and aid workers say. Migrant boat crossings from Libya dropped steeply from mid-2017 due an Italian-led push to disrupt smuggling […]