Dispute threatens to undermine unity at the African Union’s annual gathering in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. The leaders of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will meet on Monday in a bid to break a deadlock in negotiations over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is building along its share of the Nile river. The dispute threatens to […]

A man was airlifted to Hamilton General Hospital after being injured in an industrial accident in the Laurentian Hills neighbourhood of Kitchener on Tuesday morning. Police were called to Ottawa Street and Benninger Drive at around 10:45 a.m. for a workplace incident. Police would not provide further details as to how the man was injured. […]

As winter tightens its grip and people are faced with frigid temperatures, Chicago residents are being robbed of their winter coats at gunpoint, having their jackets literally ripped off their backs. Police in Chicago have reported a rash in gunpoint robberies as thieves target those wearing Canada Goose jackets. In just over a week, authorities […]

TORONTO – Durham police have charged a 36-year-old woman with dangerous driving after someone drove a car into a community swimming pool last week. Police allege the woman smashed into the Courtice Community Centre and ended up in the children’s pool around 8:40 a.m. on Friday. Video of the incident shows a red compact car […]

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will insist on excluding Gibraltar from all agreements between Britain and the European Union once Britain has left the European Union, Spanish diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said Spain intends to revive its bid for shared sovereignty over Gibraltar, a British territory since 1713, after Brexit. […]

HARARE (Reuters) – Hundreds of Zimbabwean lawyers marched on Tuesday to demand justice for people detained in jail and others facing fast-track trials after violent protests this month led to mass arrests and a brutal security crackdown. Police say more than 1,000 people have been arrested since Jan. 14, when a three-day stay-at-home strike called […]

BRUMADINHO, Brazil/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Three employees of Brazilian miner Vale SA and two other engineers working on behalf of the company were arrested on Tuesday, state prosecutors said, deepening a crisis for the company after another deadly disaster at one of its mines. In a statement on Twitter, Vale said it was cooperating […]

PARIS (Reuters) – French police have arrested five people on suspicion they had links to the gunman who killed five people in an attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg, a judicial source said on Tuesday. The source said the suspects were detained as part of an investigation into how Cherif […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – At 93, Kim Bok-dong died as she had lived for many years: at the heart of the controversy over Japan’s use of forced labor in its wartime brothels. Kim, who died on Monday at a hospital in the South Korean capital of Seoul, was a fixture at weekly protests outside the Japanese […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – Around 30,000 people fled into Cameroon at the weekend from the Nigerian city of Rann, fearing an attack by Boko Haram militants, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday. UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva that the residents panicked and fled after the Multinational Joint Task Force, […]