RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian government collected more than 50 billion riyal ($13.33 billion) so far this year from settlements reached with detainees in a crackdown on corruption launched at the end of last year, said Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan on Tuesday. Scores of top officials and businessmen were detained in Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel in […]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is considering action to push Myanmar to work with the United Nations to address the Rohingya refugee crisis, although China and Russia have so far boycotted talks on a British-drafted resolution, diplomats said on Monday. The draft resolution aims to put a timeline on Myanmar allowing the […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Police on Tuesday raided a mosque in Berlin whose preacher was suspected of transferring funds to an Islamist fighter in Syria for the purpose of carrying out “terrorist criminal acts”, prosecutors said. Officers searched the As-Sahaba mosque in Berlin’s northern district of Wedding where 45-year-old Ahmad A. – known to his […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump did not commit during a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at the G20 summit two weeks ago to extradite a Muslim cleric based in the United States, a senior White House official said on Monday. “While meeting with President Erdogan at the G20, the president did not commit […]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) has declared force majeure on operations at El Sharara oilfield, it said late on Monday, a week after the company declared force majeure on the field’s exports. NOC said in a statement that oil production from Libya’s biggest oilfield will only restart after “alternative security arrangements are […]

BEIJING • Boeing has kicked off its industrial foray into China, handing over the first 737 Max completed in the country to Air China as executives looked past simmering trade tension to a US$2.7 trillion (S$3.7 trillion) market opportunity. The jetliner was the first to be delivered from outside the US by the Chicago-based planemaker, […]

LUXEMBOURG/WARSAW (Reuters) – The European Union’s top court ruled on Monday that Poland must immediately suspend a law that forced some Supreme Court judges to retire, drawing a line under a dispute between Warsaw and Brussels. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party had already agreed to scrap the law that lowered the judges’ retirement […]

An inmate allegedly attempting to smuggle unauthorized tobacco into Dorchester Penitentiary was caught by RCMP and corrections officers, the Correctional Service of Canada said on Monday. The correctional service says that during a 7:30 a.m. headcount in the minimum security unit of the penitentiary on Monday, staff members discovered that an inmate was not accounted […]

This week on the Dark Poutine podcast we look at the fate of Alicia Ross. In Thornhill, Ont., on a warm summer night in August 2005, 25-year-old Alicia Ross vanished from her family home without a trace. The intense search proved fruitless and foul play was expected early on. Alicia’s disappearance left a city in […]

Good morning. I once had a job at a posh little deli attached to a restaurant in a charming part of town. I’d arrive before dawn and heat a huge vat of water on the stove, perfume it with peppercorns, then slide five or six chickens into it to poach. I’d make mayonnaise while the […]