As Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman faces court in the US, elaborate precautions are in place around the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel – after all, he has previously escaped from prison, twice. One of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords will go on trial in the US later on Monday. Joaquin Guzman, also known as […]

Indonesian authorities will focus on airline’s operating procedures and qualifications of flight crew. Indonesian authorities are conducting an in-depth review of Lion Air after one of the airline’s planes crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta killing all 189 people on board. The “special audit” will cover the standard operating procedures of the […]

Nova Scotia RCMP have charged a Brazilian man with stunting after he was allegedly caught driving at 82 km/h over the speed limit on Saturday. Police say they clocked a vehicle travelling at 182 km/h in a 100 km/h zone along Highway 103 in East Chester, N.S. The 53-year-old driver, whose name has not been […]

UNICEF says 400,000 children are at risk of dying every day due to lack of food, but the war is making aid deliveries impossible. Warning: This report contains some disturbing images. The UN Children’s Fund is calling on the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels in Yemen to allow aid deliveries to reach starving people. The […]

Winnipeg police say the have seized thousands of dollars worth of methamphetamine early Saturday morning. Around 1:00 a.m., police were conducting a targeted patrol on Andrews Street and Aberdeen Avenue, when they observed a passenger in a taxi not wearing his seat belt. A traffic stop was conducted, and the man was found to have […]

Far-right president-elect vows to fulfill his promise in an interview with Israeli newspaper ‘Israel Hayom’. Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has told an Israeli newspaper he intends to defy the Palestinians and most of the world by moving his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Asked in an interview with Israel Hayom published on Thursday […]

The events, timed to coincide with the 39th anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, were broadcast live on state TV as America and Israel flags were burned. An effigy of Uncle Sam and pictures of Donald Trump were also torched. US sanctions targeting Iran’s oil sales and banking sectors are being […]

‘No’ vote against independence from France is in the lead with about half the ballots counted, reports say. The “no” vote against independence for New Caledonia is in the lead with about half the ballots counted in the French Pacific territory, reports say. Public broadcaster La1ere Nouvelle Caledonie reported that 59 percent of votes counted […]

PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron faces a week of historic commemoration and intense diplomacy as he prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One and host more than 60 world leaders at a peace gathering in Paris. U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and scores of other […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – The top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said on Sunday Iran would resist and defeat a U.S. “psychological war” and sanctions against its vital oil sector. “America has launched an economic and psychological war as a last resort … But America’s plots and its plans for sanctions […]