Iran is launching a three-day navy drill from the Gulf to Indian Ocean – including a crucial international oil shipping route – tomorrow Iran is holding a three-day annual naval drill, starting Friday Drill will take place in the Oman Sea and the north of the Indian Ocean  It will also be held in the sensitive global shipping route, the […]

Syracuse University men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim accidentally struck and killed a pedestrian late Wednesday night, according to local police. Boeheim remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation, Syracuse Police said in a news release. The legendary college coach underwent “field sobriety and alco-sensor tests,” which “were negative for any signs of impairment,” according to police. Boeheim […]

Little Alesha was discovered dead in woodland on July 2 on the Isle of Bute where she had been spending a summer break with her dad and grandparents. Today, mum Georgina Lochrane wept as she left the High Court in Glasgow where she saw her daughter's 16-year-old killer – who cannot be named for legal reasons – found guilty. In memory of […]

A building in Barrie was temporarily evacuated due to a chlorine issue, officials say. According to a tweet from Barrie Fire, on Thursday at around 11 a.m., crews were called to a building on Hart Drive due to chlorine issues. Barrie Fire says approximately 20 guests were evacuated and sheltered on a Barrie Transit bus while crews worked to ventilate […]

Empire actor Jussie Smollett allegedly paid $3,500 to stage a “bogus” hate crime attack against him to draw attention to himself because he was dissatisfied with his salary, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said at a Thursday press conference. Smollett, 36, is accused of filing a false police report about his alleged hate attack on Wednesday. At the Thursday press conference, […]

A fire has destroyed the oldest business in a small New Brunswick village, located approximately an hour southwest of Saint John. Hall Bros. Enterprises Ltd, a tractor dealer on Route 104, was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary this year until crews responded to reports of a fire at 4:42 a.m., on Thursday. Bill Palmer, chief of the Norton Fire […]

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain and the European Union on Thursday played down the chances clinching an immediate Brexit divorce deal but diplomats said they were moving closer to a legal compromise that Prime Minister Theresa May hopes will win over the British parliament. May is trying to get changes to the divorce package before putting it to another vote in […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The risk of Britain crashing out of the European Union on March 29 without a deal to ease Brexit has increased this month, the deputy head of the European Commission said on Thursday. Asked during a conference in Brussels if Britain would leave on the date scheduled, First Vice President Frans Timmermans said his fear in the […]

WARSAW (Reuters) – A statue of a priest who was leading figure in the movement that toppled Communism in Poland was removed by protesters, who accused the Catholic Church of neglecting accusations that he sexually abused minors. The statue of Henryk Jankowski in central Gdansk – the birthplace of the Solidarity movement – was lifted from its plinth overnight by […]

Jeremy Corbyn says Shamima Begum SHOULD be let back into Britain and ‘given our support’ after ISIS bride was stripped of UK citizenship Labour leader says the teenager has ‘a right to return’ as she was born in Britain Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship yesterday The case hinges on Begum’s Bangladeshi heritage on her mother’s side […]