WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s special representative for Venezuela pledged on Thursday that Washington would “expand the net” of sanctions on the South American nation, including more on banks supporting President Nicolas Maduro’s government. “There will be more sanctions on financial institutions that are carrying out the orders of the Maduro regime,” Elliott Abrams told a U.S. Senate […]

Halifax police have charged four people with human trafficking, after it’s alleged two women were directed into prostitution. Investigators began their investigation on Feb. 26. It’s alleged a man “directed and influenced” the women, aged 21 and 22, for the purpose of prostitution. Two women and a man were arrested Wednesday night at an apartment on Roleika Drive in Dartmouth. […]

Deschambault Lake RCMP said bootleg alcohol worth over $3,000 destined for the northern Saskatchewan community was seized in two separate traffic stops. The first happened early Tuesday evening when officers stopped a vehicle with two women on Highway 911 just south of Deschambault Lake. Police said 20 bottles of alcohol – including 17 66-ounce bottles of whisky – and a […]

Lewd lyrics: Pop music is just as violent and sexist as hip hop and rap, study finds Pop music and rap are the most popular genres among teens, but a new study finds that their lyrics are the most violent and misogynistic of all musical styles Nearly one-third of pop songs contain lyrics that degrade or demean women by portraying […]

‘Major incident’ as high winds battering Britain tear massive scaffolding from four-storey building and onto street near Hampstead Heath A witness at the scene said there was ‘an awful lot of screaming’ as the large structure collapsed on the street Staff at Royal Free Hospital told staff not to go home because of ‘major incident’ that occurred this afternoon Emergency […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s attorney general said on Thursday he would begin fresh contempt-of-court legal action against far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whose case has attracted the sympathy of right-wing supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump. Robinson, 36, the co-founder of the English Defence League (EDL) which has staged violent demonstrations against Islam, won an appeal last year against a contempt-of-court […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British police said on Thursday they had launched a murder investigation after the body of a woman was found in a shallow grave in southwest London. Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, originally from France, had been missing since Monday after not turning up for work. Her body was found in a garden in Kew on Wednesday evening. “Although formal […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of women in senior roles at Germany’s foreign ministry has increased sharply in the past year, but they are still underrepresented in diplomatic missions overseas, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday. Maas said he would soon name a woman as state secretary, only the second woman to ever hold that role, adding the ministry […]

Azriel Clary – just 17 when she met him after a gig – spoke out to defend him in an emotional interview alongside his other lover Joycelyn Savage. The girls' families have claimed they have been "brainwashed" and are being held against their will by the superstar, real name Robert Kelly. But they angrily dismissed that on US channel CBS […]

Raising the WOOF! The poodles pampered just as much as the showgirls before the curtain lifted on 1952 Paris To Piccadilly show in London’s West End Canine stars of productions at the Prince of Wales theatre in the 1950s were groomed before going on stage The backstage pampering process involved hours of washing, clipping and combing the poodles’ fur coats […]