Former presidential hopeful Aboul Fotouh says Egypt is governed by ‘dictatorial police regime that hates politics’. Egypt’s presidential election is a “referendum with guaranteed results” for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, according to a leading opposition figure. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh said he encouraged citizens to boycott the “absurd” vote, expected to take place between […]

Second named cyclone of the South Pacific season damaged the Samoan Islands and could be catastrophic for Tonga. A clean-up is continuing in the two Samoas after Tropical Cyclone Gita hit on Saturday morning. There was extensive flooding, rivers burst their banks and houses were inundated. More than 200 people in Samoa needed emergency shelter. Apia, the capital, measured 425mm […]

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese police fired tear gas on Friday at hundreds of protesters in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, witnesses said, in the latest of more than a month of anti-government demonstrations. Demonstrators frustrated with a worsening economic crisis have been on the streets near-daily since Dec. 19 calling for an end to the 30-year rule of President […]

A Calgary woman is pleading for the return of her father’s ashes after they were stolen from her northwest house earlier this week. Heather Hamilton is in the process of moving to a new home in the community of Mount Pleasant and had left some unpacked boxes in her locked garage before going to sleep. She woke up on Thursday […]

Sadness across Bollywood after one of the biggest names in Hindi cinema passes away from cardiac arrest in Dubai. Tributes poured in from the world of Bollywood as the sudden death of Sridevi, one of India’s most celebrated actresses, left her loved ones “shocked”. The news was described as “unbelievable” and “tragic” after the 54-year-old veteran actress died on Saturday […]

A hospital allegedly put an 84-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s into a taxi for a ride to a California care facility, where she was abandoned alone outside a locked door to wander for at least 25 minutes around 2 a.m., according to a complaint lodged by her family. It’s unknown how long Savina Genoese Zerbi, who was recorded on surveillance video […]

LONDON (Reuters) – With just 56 days until Britain leaves the EU, Jo Elgarf has begun stockpiling food in case politicians fail to strike an exit deal, but she says she cannot do the same with vital drugs her disabled daughter needs. Four-year-old Nora has cerebral palsy and epilepsy and relies on imported Epilim and Keppra daily to stop her […]

Skopje has refused to relinquish the name Macedonia and Greece rejects the use of even a composite name that includes it. Athens, Greece – The dispute over the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM – as it registered with the UN in 1993) is the last major extant issue arising from the breakup of Yugoslavia.   Early attempts […]

In a city where apartments are the size of a postage stamp and "backyard" is a foreign word, the outside world becomes a necessary extension of one's barely-existent living room. Manhattan's coffee shops, libraries, taverns and parks serve as a quasi-home for 1.7 million residents squeezed into a 59-square kilometre island. At 1am, coffee shops glow from a sea of laptops. […]

Internal inquiry report from 2011 also reveals charity’s former Haiti director ‘admitted to using prostitutes’. Three men, who worked for the Oxfam Haiti team and are accused of sexual misconduct in the country, physically threatened a witness during an internal investigation into the allegations, UK-based charity Oxfam said.  The aid organisation released the findings of its 2011 internal inquiry into […]