A man has been charged after police say he was caught driving the wrong way on Highway 11 in Bracebridge. According to Bracebridge OPP, on Tuesday just after 7 p.m., officers received a report that a vehicle was driving southbound in the northbound lanes of Highway 11. Police say officers were able to stop the […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – Endemic violence in Central African Republic is pushing the country towards famine with 63 percent of the population already needing emergency aid, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the country said on Wednesday. Central African Republic (CAR) has been in chaos since 2013, when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the president, provoking a […]

Good morning. Please return your seat backs and tray tables to their upright positions. Make sure your belts are snug. We’ve begun our initial descent into Thanksgiving International Airport. Some words of advice, not for the hard landing, but for the day that’s coming, the feast itself, the long hours of fellowship with family and […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she was “deeply disappointed” that a UAE court had sentenced British academic Matthew Hedges to life in prison on charges of spying. “We are of course deeply disappointed and concerned at today’s verdict,” May told parliament. “We are raising it with the Emirati authorities […]

Unseasonably mild conditions, which are likely to become more common as climate changes causes global temperatures to rise, has left many families crestfallen by dream holidays that failed to crystallise. At a time when northern Lapland would normally have 20-30cm of snow on the ground, there are now no more than a couple of centimetres […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey accused the United States on Wednesday of trying to turn a blind eye to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, and dismissed comments from President Donald Trump on the issue as “comic”. Trump vowed on Tuesday to remain a “steadfast partner” of Saudi Arabia, despite saying that Saudi […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin may meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina starting on Nov. 30, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters the Kremlin was closely watching moves in oil prices, but declined to comment on whether Moscow would […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China should put more focus on building civilian facilities on islands in the South China Sea and less emphasis on the military to better sooth regional fears about China’s intentions, an influential state-run paper said on Wednesday. The disputed, strategic waterway is claimed almost in its entirety by China, whose continued building […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it had moved to disrupt an Iranian-Russian network that sent millions of barrels of oil to Syria and hundreds of millions of dollars to indirectly fund militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. The complicated arrangement, described by the U.S. Treasury in a statement, involved a Syrian citizen […]

School in the southern Guangxi region planned to confiscate and review all student and staff electronic devices. A Chinese university’s plan to conduct a blanket search of student and staff electronic devices has come under fire, illustrating the limits of the population’s tolerance for surveillance. The proposal drew condemnation after raising the prospect that tactics […]