BRUMADINHO, Brazil/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Offers of penance from Vale SA for one of the deadliest mining disasters in decades fell on deaf ears in Brazil, where authorities and victims’ families seethed at a death toll from a burst dam likely to exceed 300 people. Chief Financial Officer Luciano Siani said Vale was doing […]

CARACAS (Reuters) – Shock and fear swept through the headquarters of Venezuela’s state-owned oil firm, PDVSA, on Monday, employees said, after the United States imposed sanctions aimed at limiting President Nicolas Maduro’s access to oil revenues. A high-level manager said PDVSA President and Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo was ensconced in his office. Several employees and […]

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday welcomed home diplomats recalled from the United States after the two countries scaled back their diplomatic missions to skeleton staff. The appearance was broadcast on national television and was followed by a speech by Maduro. The diplomatic rift was triggered by U.S. recognition last week of […]

A 13-year-old boy has been reported missing from Sagkeeng First Nation, and RCMP are looking to the public for help to bring him home. Richard Sinclair-Courchene was last seen Wednesday near Bruyere Point Road in Sagkeeng at around 8:30 a.m., wearing a brown parka and black pants. He’s described as 5’0″ tall, around 100 lbs, […]

A Cobourg man faces several charges, including driving while prohibited, following a traffic stop in the town on Monday morning. The Cobourg Police Service says an officer observed a vehicle speeding in a Community Safety Zone in the town. The officer stopped the vehicle on Nickerson Drive. The investigation led to charges for the driver […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights investigator leading the international inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi will meet Istanbul’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday, the prosecutor’s office said. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard, on a week-long visit to Turkey with a forensic and legal team, met Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday. Khashoggi […]

EDINBURGH (Reuters) – The Brexit stance taken by the opposition Labour Party is losing it support among young people while only 12 percent of people in its former electoral heartland of Scotland back its handling of the issue, according to a poll on Monday. Britain’s parliament is currently deadlocked over how and even whether to […]

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A high-level delegation from Libya’s parallel government in the east visited the main southern city of Sabha on Monday after its forces this month seized control of the city, an official said. The eastern government is allied to Khalifa Haftar, whose Libyan National Army (LNA) launched a campaign this month in […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese court on Monday jailed prominent rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang for 4-1/2 years for subversion of state power, a sentence denounced by Human Rights Watch as a “mockery” of Beijing’s claims to champion the rule of law. Wang, who had taken cases deemed sensitive by authorities, such as accusations of police […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police have recovered a painting by prominent artist Arkhip Kuindzhi stolen from a Moscow gallery on Sunday and detained the suspected thief, TASS state news agency said on Monday, citing a police official. A 31-year-old man told police where he had hidden the painting, TASS quoted a spokeswoman for the Russian […]