DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain’s foreign minister, Sheih Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, criticized Qatar’s emir in a tweet on Sunday for not attending an annual Gulf Arab summit being held in Saudi Arabia. Qatar sent its state minister for foreign affairs to the summit, which is taking place amid a bitter dispute between Doha and […]

ROME/PADUA (Reuters) – Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, normally relishes confrontation, but now the firebrand populist is under attack from a place he calls home. Dissent is growing in his League party’s political heartland, the industrial north, adding to pressure on Salvini and his coalition partner to reverse course on their 2019 budget. “I […]

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – New Zealand police said on Sunday that they believe they found the body of a missing 22-year-old British woman after charging a 26-year-old man with her murder. Grace Millane, who was traveling the world after finishing university, went missing on Dec. 1 in Auckland. On Saturday the police said that she was […]

PARIS (Reuters) – The last refugee rescue ship working in the Mediterranean Sea, Aquarius, has ended her operations, French NGO Medecins sans Frontieres said late on Thursday, blaming harassment from Italy and other countries. “This is a somber day,” Nelke Mander, Medecins sans Frontieres’s general director, said in a statement. “The end of our operations […]

The province has granted B.C. Hydro an environmental assessment certificate regarding a dam in British Columbia’s Interior region. Dubbed the Revelstoke 6 project, B.C. Hydro says it is eyeing the potential installment of a sixth power-generating unit into the Revelstoke Dam. According to B.C. Hydro, the sixth generating unit “is an important contingency project in […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow would only be ready to discuss the fate of a group of Ukrainian sailors it captured last month after their trial was finished. The United States and the European Union have called on Russia to free the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were […]

A massive police presence was seen on a quiet Belleville street on Friday morning. Investigators say they received a call about what they were calling a “serious incident” around 7 a.m. Police said a man had barricaded himself in a house on Albion Way. Staff Sgt. Rene Aubertin with Belleville police said it took several […]

A search is underway in West Kelowna where a senior disappeared on a walk to the bank at 5:30 p.m. Friday. RCMP have called on Central Okanagan Search and Rescue to assist looking for Al Campbell, a man in his 80’s. “It is important for the public to know that Al Campbell suffers from a […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – New York prosecutors have withdrawn an appeal to extend the sentence of a former executive at Turkey’s state-owned lender Halkbank, Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Friday. Halkbank (HALKB.IS) shares rose nearly 4 percent after the report as market participants saw the move as further indication of an improvement in diplomatic […]

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Police searching for a 22-year-old British woman missing in New Zealand have launched a murder investigation and a 26-year-old man is being questioned, investigators said on Saturday. Grace Millane, who was traveling the world after finishing university, went missing a week ago. She had arrived in New Zealand on Nov. 20 and […]