Azru Yildiz sits in her small Toronto apartment and contemplates what she’s lost. She can no longer go back to her native Turkey, her marriage collapsed, only one of her two daughters is living with her after years apart and the only job she could get after being a promising journalist back home is working […]

A 33-year-old man is facing numerous weapon and charges following an early morning incident on Dec. 15. The Regina Police observed a “suspicious” vehicle parked on the 38000 block of Albert Street around 2:00 a.m. Police approached the vehicle, which contained two men and a woman. Their investigation revealed firearms, drugs and ammunition. All three […]

A man was revived by first responders after being pulled from a one-alarm house fire in west-end Toronto early Monday morning. Firefighters responded to a call around 2 a.m. at an address on Harvie Avenue near the area of Eglinton Avenue and Dufferin Street. Fire officials said crews arrived on scene and located a male […]

At least 42 people have been injured in a suspected gas explosion that destroyed wooden buildings housing a restaurant and a real estate office in northern Japan, according to police and local media reports. The powerful blast on Sunday in Sapporo, the capital city of Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido, shook nearby buildings, broke windows […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian diplomats received consular access on Sunday to the second of two men detained by China over the past week, Canada’s foreign ministry said in a statement that gave few details. John McCallum, Canada’s ambassador to Beijing, met Michael Spavor, the statement said. Spavor and Michael Kovrig were both picked up after […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government is not preparing for a second referendum on Brexit, ministers said on Sunday, sticking to the script that Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal could still pass through parliament with a few changes. May delayed a vote last week on her agreement to leave the European Union because she was set […]

The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that a fifth person had died from their wounds following Tuesday’s Strasbourg Christmas market shooting. An official with the prosecutor’s office said the victim was a Polish national and gave no other details. The gunman, Cherif Chekatt, was killed on Thursday night after firing on police, ending a […]

PRETORIA (Reuters) – Andre Kruger’s stand at Africa’s first ever cannabis exposition displayed an indoor growing tent, complete with state-of-the-art lighting imported from the United States and fittings for a high-tech hydroponic irrigation system. What it didn’t have, however, was a cannabis plant. The four-day expo, which opened in South Africa’s capital Pretoria on Thursday, […]

Newfoundland and Labrador’s ambitious plans to dramatically expand the province’s lucrative offshore oil and gas industry got a nasty jolt on Nov. 16. Amid a fierce winter storm, an estimated 250,000 litres of oil spilled into the ocean from Husky Energy’s SeaRose platform, about 350 kilometres from St. John’s. It was the largest spill in […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives called nearly unanimously on Thursday for the government of Myanmar to release Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were imprisoned one year ago in a landmark free speech case. House members voted by 394 to 1 for a resolution calling for release of Wa […]