CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition on Wednesday said it would use a U.S.-based fund to receive some of the country’s oil income in a key step to bankroll its efforts to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro. The fund would receive income accrued by state-run oil firm PDVSA’s U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum Corp since last month, when U.S. President Donald Trump recognized […]

At least two killed after building collapses in Turkey’s Istanbul: Official At least two people were killed and six wounded after an eight-storey residential building collapsed in Istanbul on Wednesday (Feb 6), the governor’s office said.  It was not immediately clear why the building, in the Kartal district on the Asian side of the city, had collapsed.   Istanbul Governor Ali […]

Environment Canada has replaced a freezing rain warning with a freezing drizzle advisory for the Guelph area and Waterloo region. The area had been under a freezing rain warning for most of the day on Wednesday, but the agency downgraded the statement at around 3 p.m. Environment Canada is still calling for freezing drizzle in the area Wednesday night and […]

Thompson RCMP are searching for a missing 15-year-old girl. Theresa Faith Miles was last seen on the afternoon of Feb. 1 at her Westwood Drive home in Thompson. Miles is described as 5’3″, 105 lbs, with brown eyes and black hair. Anyone with information is asked to call Thompson RCMP at 204-677-6911, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. You can also […]

Wherever you go in Britain, from town centres to small villages, you will see people sleeping rough on the streets. This is a national scandal staring at us in plain sight. The figures are damning: the number of people living in the streets has risen by 165% since the Conservatives came to power, more than 500 die sleeping rough each […]

Police are investigating a drive-by shooting they say happened in Cole Harbour, N.S., Wednesday afternoon. Nova Scotia RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Brian Cameron tells Global News that shooting on Circassion Drive was reported just before 4 p.m. There were no victims, according to police, but they did find casings in the area. Sgt. Cameron says police will release more information as […]

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A Kansas judge is under fire after he said that two teenage victims of a sex offender were “more an aggressor than a participant.” Leavenworth County District Judge Michael Gibbens made the statement as he sentenced 67-year-old Raymond Soden to 5 years and 10 months in prison for soliciting two girls, ages 13 and 14, on Facebook in January 2018. […]

A hotel in Hangzhou in China’s Zhejiang province recently made one of their hot spring pools into a human hot pot. Patrons were able to eat skewers of meat and grilled veggies served to them while taking a soak. Hot pot is a popular method of preparing Asian cuisine in which food is boiled in a soup base as the […]

A second man is facing assault charges and a person of interest is wanted in connection with an altercation in Moncton last week. New Brunswick RCMP say they were called to a residence on Whitney Avenue off Killam Drive at about 10:15 p.m. on Jan. 30. When they arrived, officers found three men in the area of Whitney Avenue and […]