Cyprus has hailed a significant discovery of natural gas offshore, highlighting the Mediterranean island’s prospective role as an alternative source of energy to Europe. Amid rising tensions over hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean, the US energy giant ExxonMobil announced that deep-water drilling south of the coastal city of Limassol had yielded “encouraging results”, described by Cypriot officials as exceeding all […]

Students, community members as well as the local police chief came together at a Pennsylvania church to mourn five slain family members — including three children — whose bodies were found dead in their Morrisville apartment on Monday. Wednesday night’s community prayer vigil at the Morrisville United Methodist Church was an “opportunity for the community to all come together and […]

The case has become national news: Arizona sixth-grade teacher Brittany Zamora, 27, is accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old student. Police say she sent him inappropriately sexual texts and later had sex with him multiple times. And, according to newly released documents first obtained by the Arizona Republic, police allege the former teacher allowed another male student to be in the room […]

A doctor is being hailed as a hero for throwing himself on a deranged double-amputee as he opened fire in a Florida veterans hospital. The doctor was shot in the neck but managed to jump on the suspect, Larry Ray Bon, before he could do more harm Wednesday night in the emergency room of the West Palm Beach VA Medical […]

‘We’ll announce the complete victory over ISIS in a week’: Syrian forces say Islamic State are days from obliteration as mass grave filled with terror group’s victims is uncovered Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are on the brink of ejecting ISIS from Baghouz  Today footage emerged appearing to show a mass grave discovered a week ago Many of the people buried […]

Police say a portion of Highway 12 in Tay Township will be closed on Thursday. Southern Georgian Bay OPP say the eastbound lane of Highway 12 at Fraser Lane will be closed beginning at 9 a.m. on Thursday for environmental cleanup. Police say the cleanup should take approximately six hours, and officers hope to reopen the road by 3 p.m. […]

Waterloo Regional Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing Cambridge woman. Police say that Eileen Holley was last seen in December. The 35-year-old is known to frequent downtown Kitchener and Cambridge. Holley is described as five feet seven inches, 120 lbs., with a partially shaved head and blue eyes. Police are asking anyone with information on […]

Hanoi: President Donald Trump criticised his former attorney Michael Cohen on Thursday for lying in testimony to Congress but found reason to praise him, too, for not alleging Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia in 2016. Trump, speaking at a news conference in Vietnam after failing to achieve a peace deal with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, called the blockbuster hearing back […]

Michael Cohen may have hoped to ward off evil during his grueling testimony with a small accessory – a red bracelet wrapped around his left wrist. President Trump’s former personal attorney was seen sporting the thin talisman, which is commonly associated with the Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible. The website MyJewishLearning.com notes that “wearing […]

A house is covered in ice near the edge of Lake Ontario in Pulaski, N.Y., on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. Starting over the weekend, wind gusts of up to 70 mph caused freezing spray from the lake to wrap nearby summer homes in ice as high winds howled through much of the eastern U.S. (Natalie Kucko via AP) Blistering winds […]