Staffan de Mistura expresses disappointment over failure to agree on composition of UN-backed constitutional committee. The outgoing United Nations Special Envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, says the latest talks involving Iran, Russia and Turkey to end the war are a “missed opportunity”. Staffan de Mistura says he is disappointed with the failure of the […]

Bank employees accused of helping customers to set up offshore firms and transfer proceeds from criminal activities. German investigators looking for evidence of possible money laundering have searched multiple offices belonging to Deutsche Bank. A total of 170 officers from the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office, the Criminal Bureau of Investigation (BKA), the tax fraud office […]

A Moncton woman says she hopes speaking out about a sensitive issue will help more to come forward in the future. “This is my second time in my life getting ‘roofied,’” says 24-year-old Taylor Woods. “I find that quite scary.” A weekend venture downtown for Woods and a friend turned into a scary experience as […]

A southern Alberta man on trial for sex offences against underage girls was back on the stand in a Lethbridge courtroom on Wednesday. Trevor Pritchard spent about two hours on the witness stand in Court of Queen’s Bench as the Crown completed its cross-examination. The 35-year-old was the final witness to testify before the defence […]

The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to advance a resolution to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen‘s civil war, setting the stage for a possible final vote on the measure within days. Underscoring bipartisan unhappiness with President Donald Trump’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate, […]

The Town of Midland paid eight bitcoins to cybercriminals who held their systems ransom earlier this year, a staff report says. On Monday, a seven-page staff report prepared by the director of corporate services and town solicitor, Amanpreet Sidhu, was presented to council which outlined the costs the town incurred after its network was illegally […]

Valerie Theoret, 37, and her daughter Adele Roesholt died in the attack on Monday in a remote area of Yukon, a territory in the northwest of the country. Royal Canadian mounted police were contacted at around 3.45pm by Mrs Theoret’s husband, Gjermund Roesholt The animal trapper told officers a grizzly bear charged at him around […]

A group of Texas farmers banded together to help a fellow neighbour who was unable to harvest his crop because of his battle with cancer. When a group of Floyd County farmers learned Greg Bishop was fighting leukemia and was unable to complete his cotton harvest, they pooled their resources and finished the harvest for […]

The Golfe, mer, falaises vertes, a lesser-known landscape by the prolific French impressionist, was snatched by three men from its frame on display on Monday ahead of a planned sale at the Dorotheum auction house. A police spokesman said: “The men left the site through different exits and fled.” They released pictures of the three […]

The breakdown of a plea deal with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an explosive British news report about alleged contacts he may have had with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threw a new element of uncertainty into the Trump-Russia investigation. On Tuesday, a day after prosecutors accused Manafort of repeatedly lying to them, trashing […]