One person is dead and three others have been taken to hospital following a shooting in the LoDo neighbourhood in Denver’s downtown, not far from Coors Field, the city’s police force said Monday. Officers responded to the shooting at 21st Street and Lawrence Street at about 4 p.m., the Denver police tweeted. The three people […]

KABUL (Reuters) – A three-day meeting between the Taliban and the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan to pave the way for peace talks ended with no agreement, the militant group said a day after the diplomat declared a deadline of April 2019 to end a 17-year-long war. Afghanistan’s security situation has worsened since NATO formally […]

PARIS (Reuters) – France will decide very soon to impose sanctions on individuals linked to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday. “We are working very closely with Germany at this moment … and we will decide ourselves a certain number of sanctions very quickly over what […]

The Maldives is a republic lies south-west of the Indian sub-continent. It is made up of a chain of nearly 1,200 islands, most of them uninhabited. None of the coral islands stand more than 1.8 metres (six feet) above sea level, making the country vulnerable to any rise in sea levels associated with global warming. […]

Police say two men and two women have been found shot and killed in a basement in Philadelphia. Police say the bodies were discovered in a Philadelphia home Monday, each with a single gunshot wound to the head. They were pronounced dead just before 12:30 p.m. Two of the victims have been identified as a […]

Waterloo Regional Police made a pair of arrests over the weekend after pulling over a pickup truck in downtown Kitchener with the wrong plates. Police say they pulled over the vehicle at around 9:44 a.m. at the intersection of Weber Street East and Scott Street. It was then discovered that the truck had been reported […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Monday gave his first major speech since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, expressing support for his son, the crown prince, and making no mention of allegations that the young royal ordered the killing. The annual policy speech by the king instead highlighted […]

Finland’s president confirmed he spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump about how to manage forest fires, but he doesn’t recall mentioning raking leaves. Trump credited Finland’s Sauli Niinisto for suggesting clearing forest floors to prevent forest fires while the American president was touring the devastation that’s been left behind in California from some of the […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates is fully complying with sanctions imposed this month by the United States on Iran even though it will mean a further drop in trade with Tehran, a UAE economy ministry official told Reuters on Monday. Abu Dhabi, the political capital of the UAE federation, has taken a hawkish […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German conservative Manfred Weber, who is running to take over the European Union’s top job next year, said on Monday that turning the European bailout fund (ESM) into a European Monetary Fund (EMF) should be a priority. “I want to prioritize one thing: that is the creation of a European Monetary Fund, […]