PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s parliament is reviewing a five-year ban on more than 100 members of the main opposition party, which could allow them to return to politics, following threats by the European Union to deny duty-free trading access to the Southeast Asian nation. The EU last month began a formal procedure to strip […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Monday called absurd a Ukrainian accusation it has designs on the Ukrainian ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk in order to create a land corridor between Russian-annexed Crimea and eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. As tensions between Kiev and Moscow have risen over Russia’s seizure of three Ukrainian naval […]

Negotiators from nearly 200 nations have two weeks to agree on details of the 2015 Paris climate accord. Delegates from around the world have kicked off two weeks of United Nations talks in Poland on tackling climate change, three years since the landmark 2015 Paris deal to shift away from fossil fuels. The COP24 climate […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese police have detained two people in eastern China’s Zhejiang province following the death of an inspector looking into environmental violations, the China Daily reported on Monday, citing a government statement. The inspector, Chen Ben, was part of an enforcement team organised by the environment and police bureaus in the city of […]

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – The chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence service will warn the Kremlin on Monday not to underestimate the West after a brazen nerve agent attack on a retired double agent in England stoked fears about Russian covert activity abroad. In his second major speech since being named in 2014 to head […]

Around 5,000 stuffed animals flew over the boards at Prospera Place Saturday night as the Kelowna Rockets hosted the Saskatoon Blades for their 6th annual Teddy Bear Toss. Each year, WHL teams come together to collect more than 50,000 items for local not-for-profit organizations throughout Western Canada and the pacific northwest U.S. Fans bring new […]

(Reuters) – Spain’s far-right party is seen winning 8-10 seats in a regional election in Andalusia, according to an opinion poll published as voting closed, in what would be the first parliamentary representation for a far-right party in Spain in decades. The GAD3 poll, carried out for ABC newspaper by telephone between Nov 19-30, showed […]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A hard-headed hospital nun who disobeyed doctor’s orders saved the life of Pope Francis some six decades ago when he risked dying of pneumonia, the pope reveals in a new book. When Francis was studying for the priesthood in Latin America in the 1950s he caught pneumonia, but it was mis-diagnosed […]

SANAA (Reuters) – Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks and houses to help stem the world’s worst outbreak of cholera. Nearly four years of war between a Saudi-led coalition and the Iranian-aligned Houthi group have crippled healthcare and sanitation systems in Yemen, where some 1.2 million […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will continue missile tests to build up its defense and deterrence capabilities, a top military spokesman was quoted as saying on Sunday, following a U.S. allegation that Tehran had carried out a new missile test. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday condemned what he described as Iran’s testing of […]