US president Donald Trump has suggested he may cancel his planned sit-down with Vladimir Putin over Russia’s seizure of three Ukrainian naval ships last weekend. In an interview with The Washington Post, Mr Trump said he would be receiving a “full report” from his national security team on Russia’s recent actions in eastern Ukraine and […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on the sidelines of a G20 meeting this week, aiming to build on a thaw in ties after a military standoff on their disputed border last year, officials said. The 3,500 km (2,200-mile) border between the nuclear-armed neighbors has […]

President Duterte says his hitmen would take out communists who were deployed to kill police during the 1970s and ’80s. Philippine leftists reacted with dismay on Wednesday to a threat by President Rodrigo Duterte to create a “death squad” to hunt what he said were Maoist assassins. Critics said the comments could trigger a spree […]

Investigators looking at whether faulty sensors prompted systems to push nose down as pilots fought to do the opposite. Lion Air pilots struggled to maintain control of their Boeing jet as an automatic safety system in the plane repeatedly pushed the plane’s nose down, according to a draft of a preliminary report by Indonesian officials […]

A B.C. mother has had to make an emergency trip home from Ghana without her adopted two-year-old son because of her deteriorating health. Kim Moran, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has been wheelchair-bound and unable to walk since late last week. The Abbotsford resident was hospitalized on Thursday in Accra, Ghana, where she has been […]

A 35-year-old convicted sex offender took the stand in his own defence on Tuesday at his Lethbridge trial for charges of sexual assault, luring and child pornography. Trevor Pritchard was arrested in January 2017, after a 15-year-old girl came forward to police alleging that he sexually assaulted her. Additional charges were laid after police said […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China will retaliate “in proportion” if the United States sanctions its top official in the restive region of Xinjiang over alleged human rights abuses, China’s ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday, adding that Beijing’s policies in the region are to “re-educate” terrorists. Chinese Ambassador to Washington Cui Tiankai told Reuters […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s incoming foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday that to contain migration pressure in Central America and southern Mexico, an effort on the scale of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt war-ravaged Europe would be needed to develop the region. Mexico is battling to curb the flow of migrants from Central […]

RCMP were called to a bus crash north of Cache Creek on Tuesday afternoon. Police say the bus went into a ditch near Church Road and Antoine Road just after noon. Ten children and two adults were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Air ambulance was called for one patient with an eye injury. The superintendent of […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Torrential rain triggered flash flooding that turned streets into rivers in Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, on Wednesday, causing major disruptions to the morning commute. A spokesman for Ausgrid, the nation’s biggest electricity network, said the storm had so far left 8,100 homes without power around Sydney and the central coast. There was […]