Toronto police are encouraging the public to take precautions after men who said they were water heater inspectors allegedly stole cash from a home. According to police, a Scarborough senior received a call on Sunday from a man saying she needed her water heater inspected or she would be fined $1,000 by the provincial government. […]

Let’s not get fooled again; Doug Ford‘s flimsy explanation for deceiving the public about his government’s sex scandals just doesn’t pass the smell test. As we know, Ford’s office initially issued a statement that said that Jim Wilson was leaving cabinet to deal with addiction issues. It wasn’t until Global News investigative reporting discovered that […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police on Friday said a Somali man who stabbed three people in the city of Melbourne on Friday drove a car laden with gas cylinders which caught fire and that they are treating the attack as terrorism. The man stabbed three people, killing one, before he was shot by police. He […]

Speaking at a news conference, Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said that the suspect had “family associations that were well known” to police and that he was also known to Australia’s security agency. “We don’t believe there is an ongoing threat at this stage, but certainly we are treating it as a terrorism incident.” The 31-year-old […]

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines’ anti-corruption court on Friday ordered the arrest of former first lady Imelda Marcos after finding her guilty on seven counts of graft during the two-decade rule of her husband and former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. But Marcos, 89, famous for a huge collection of shoes, jewelry and artwork, can avoid arrest […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government said it will sell stocks worth millions of dollars seized from people who moved to Pakistan following partition in 1947 and the wars since, as a way to make up for a shortfall in revenues. The stocks worth at least 30 billion rupees ($412.26 million) are part of what […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – The owner of the Fukushima nuclear plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami nearly eight years ago, said on Friday it planned tests early next year to see how much melted uranium fuel has cooled in the damaged reactors. The tests planned for January to March will stop water cooling in the […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Britain’s junior Brexit minister told a German media outlet he was optimistic that Britain and the European Union would reach a Brexit deal soon, adding that he hoped this would happen in the next three weeks. Robin Walker told the Funke group of newspapers that Brexit negotiations were progressing in a constructive […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China has been violating an agreement with the United States aimed at stopping cyber espionage through the hacking of government and corporate data, a senior U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday. When asked if China was violating the 2015 agreement between then President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, National Security […]

T-shirt shows a mushroom cloud created by an atomic bomb with the words: ‘Patriotism OurHistory Liberation Korea’. A Japanese television station cancelled a performance by the wildly popular Korean boyband BTS after controversy erupted over a shirt worn by a member appearing to show the mushroom cloud created by an atomic bomb. The international superstars […]