Brazil is emerging from a recession and struggling with the fall-out from corruption scandals. But there’s hope that next year’s elections could bring change. Brazil is emerging from a recession and struggling with the fall-out from corruption scandals. But there’s hope that next year’s elections could bring change. In this part of our series looking ahead to 2018, we head […]

Guilty of second degree murder. That was the verdict handed down in a Winnipeg courtroom just after 5 p.m. Thursday. The jury took a little over two hours to arrive at their decision in the trial of Brian Kyle Thomas, the man accused of killing Winnipeg Transit driver Irvine Jubal Fraser. There was no doubt Thomas killed Fraser.  Thomas’ lawyer did not […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament is likely to abandon plans for a 10-day break in February, House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom warned lawmakers on Thursday, as the country’s March 29 exit from the European Union draws nearer. “It is only right that I give the House notice that there are currently no plans to bring forward a motion to […]

Young black and ethnic teenage boys ‘disproportionately’ affected as both victims and perpetrators in London. Knife crime in the UK is taking a toll on young black men, who are disproportionately being stabbed and killed in the capital, official statistics show. According to police figures, knife crime rose by more than a fifth in the UK last year, with a […]

Only half of the projected $500m that the G5 Sahel force needs has been raised, and African leaders are pushing the international community for more funding. The European Union is doubling its funding for an African body aimed at combatting armed groups across the Sahel region. Leaders of five African countries are in Brussels for a security fundraising summit. They […]

Rutger Bregman, Author and Historian, during the Session "The Cost of Inequality" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2019.  (World Economic Forum ) Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's epic rant against the super-rich in front of the super-rich at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos has turned the 30-year-old into a viral social […]

Tens of thousands of jobs are at risk with the collapse of the UK construction and services giant, Carillion. Tens of thousands of jobs are at risk with the collapse of the UK construction and services giant, Carillion. The company is involved in a vast range of infrastructure and services contracts, and the announcement that it has been forced into […]

Rights group demand that Gui Minhai be allowed to leave China to seek medical help and reunite with his family. An ailing Hong Kong bookseller detained in China should be released immediately and allowed to leave the country if he wishes, rights groups said as a growing number of European officials joined the call for Beijing to set him free. […]

A cadet at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ont., is facing several charges of assault. According to a National Defence news release, the alleged victim is another member of the Canadian Armed Forces. On Jan. 21, the person reported an incident to the military police in Kingston. According to a National Defence news release, the investigation was […]

‘I thought the world was ending’: Incredible video shows ‘sun halo’ blaze in the sky in Malaysia Deep freeze gripping the Midwest of America may have created the spectacle  As temperatures hit as low as -42F, sun halos were spotted throughout the US  Sun halos are also known as mock suns or parhelia, which means ‘with the sun’ e-mail View […]