With an estimated 40 million users, app’s shutdown by authorities had a serious effect on the lives of many Iranians. Tehran – Telegram is arguably the most popular social media application in Iran. So it will come as a relief to its estimated 40 million users – nearly half of Iran’s population – that the […]

West Kelowna RCMP and fire investigators are looking into a blaze that engulfed three vehicles and spread to the nearby car wash. It happened at the Husky gas station on Old Okanagan Highway on Wednesday night just before 8 p.m. No one was hurt in the blaze. “Upon arrival, fire crews from the Westbank and […]

Seoul proposes the two Korean teams march together at the Games’ opening ceremony, after rare talks. North Korea has agreed to send a delegation of athletes, supporters and officials to next month’s Winter Olympics taking place in South Korea, as tensions on the divided peninsula continue to subside. South Korea’s Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung […]

The tanker, Sanchi, is carrying 136,000 tonnes of light crude oil. The Iranian oil tanker that caught fire after colliding with a Hong Kong cargo ship on Saturday in the East China Sea, could burn for as long as one month. That warning of a potential environmental disaster has come for South Korea’s Ministry of […]

On January 21, 1990, at least 52 people were killed on the Gaw Kadal bridge in Srinagar. Separatist leaders in Indian-administered Kashmir are marking the 28th anniversary of an Indian security crackdown that killed 52 civilians and injured more than 250 others. Amid the memorial, the government has imposed restrictions on people’s movement in the […]

Although few want to stay in Italy, a country with poor job prospects, far-right and mainstream groups target refugees. Rome, Italy – On a pale January afternoon, 17-year-old Ali* sits around a fading fire at a makeshift refugee transit centre. Established in 2015, Baobab Experience is now located in a car park surrounded by deserted […]

Ibrahim al-Assaf was among dozens of senior officials, businessmen and princes who were held in November. A Saudi minister, who was recently detained in the Kingdom’s alleged anti-corruption crackdown, has attended a weekly cabinet meeting, according to state media. Ibrahim al-Assaf, a state minister and former finance minister, was among dozens of senior officials, businessmen and […]

The attack comes as a response to an ambush on a UN base in North Kivu that killed 15 peacekeepers. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s military has launched an operation against a Ugandan rebel group who call themselves, “The Allied Democratic Forces”, commonly known as the ADF. The ADF is suspected of killing 15 Tanzanian […]

The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, featured thousands of smart gadgets, artificial intelligence devices and hi-tech cars. The biggest consumer technology expo in the world is wrapping up in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, featured thousands of smart gadgets, artificial intelligence devices and hi-tech cars. One of the main trends in the […]

Demonstrators brave police and poor weather to protest against law that will make it more difficult to prosecute high-level officials. Tens of thousands of people rallied against anti-corruption legislation in Romania’s capital Bucharest, braving heavy snow, as well as a large police presence. The protests were organised on Saturday after the leftist-leaning, ruling Social Democrats […]