Paris:  A French yellow vest protester's hand was ripped apart during violent clashes in Paris as demonstrators tried to storm the French National Assembly in a 13th consecutive week of unrest. Police said the injured protester lost four fingers on Saturday as police swooped in to stop protesters from breaching the parliament's exterior. Police could not confirm French media reports […]

‘She was shocked when we entered’: Jeremy Corbyn drove two friends to his flat because he WANTED them to see new girlfriend Diane Abbott naked in his bed, biography reveals Britain’s top investigative author has been researching Corbyn for 18 months     TOM BOWER is author of Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot For Power This extract explores Jeremy Corbyn’s previous relationship […]

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Eastern Libyan forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar carried out four air strikes near the El Feel oilfield as a warning to a rival commander, a field engineer said on Saturday. It was the first military action by the eastern army since it banned all flights in southern Libya without its authorization on Friday. The strikes […]

Sister uses Facebook to help find her Army reservist and Lib Dem campaigner brother a girlfriend- saying he is ‘obsessed’ with Cornwall, likes pasties and drinks ‘an obscene amount of tea’ Sister wants to help find her Army reservist brother Tom Stubbs, 34, a girlfriend Helen Stubbs made a post listing her brother’s positive qualities on Facebook She said her brother likes […]

An ATM was stolen from a gas station southern New Brunswick early Friday morning, and police are trying to figure out who’s responsible for the robbery. New Brunswick RCMP say officers responded to a break-in at the Esso Gas Station on Route 175 in Pennfield, N.B., at around 2:45 a.m. Police say the ATM contained an undisclosed amount of Canadian currency. […]

A section of Highway 3 in B.C. that was closed in both directions earlier Saturday because of high avalanche hazard, then avalanche snow removal, has been reopened. According to DriveBC, the highway was closed between West Avalanche Gate and East Avalanche Gate — approximately halfway between Salmo and Creston. The closure was originally because of avalanche hazard, with avalanche deposit […]

With Edmonton in the midst of a week-long deep freeze, the frigid temperatures are proving to be a challenge for emergency crews who work outdoors. Fire crews were called to a house fire in southeast Edmonton just after 2 a.m. Saturday when temperatures hovered around -29 C. Related How are newcomers adjusting to the cold Prairie winters? ‘Knee-length water came […]

ELKHART, Ind. — A federal appeals court has thrown out a 1994 attempted murder conviction, finding that an Indiana prosecutor concealed evidence by not disclosing that the state’s sole eyewitness underwent hypnosis to sharpen his memory before testifying at trial. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago announced the decision in Mack Sims’ case on Feb. 1. Sims […]

Aliny Mendes, 39, was knifed as she walked near Meadow Primary School in Cheam, Surrey, during a horror broad daylight attack yesterday. A man aged in his 40s arrested on suspicion of murder and a second man, aged in his 50s, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender continue to be quizzed in custody. Police confirmed at least one of the […]

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) – The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is poised to attack the last Islamic State (IS) enclave in its area of operations once civilians still inside have been evacuated, an SDF official said. The besieged Islamic State enclave centered around Baghouz on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River represents the jihadist group’s last territorial foothold in […]