WASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) – The United States on Friday signaled it was ready to step up economic measures to try to drive Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power as some U.S. diplomats left the embassy in Caracas and Russia vowed to back its socialist South American ally. The U.S. Treasury Department stopped short of announcing a freeze on Venezuela’s U.S. assets […]

KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban negotiators and United States officials meeting in Qatar on Saturday finalised clauses to be included in a draft agreement to end the 17-year-old Afghan war, according to Taliban sources. Details provided by the sources to Reuters include apparent concessions from both sides, with foreign forces to be withdrawn from the country in 18 months from […]

Parents tears for tragic Julen: Town in mourning for two-year-old boy who died in a 250ft deep well as his body is brought to a funeral home ahead of poignant service tomorrow Body of Jose and Vicky Rosello’s son Julen was found today at 1.25am in Spain  Their heartbreak comes two years after firstborn Oliver died suddenly aged 3 Oliver […]

Little Julen Rosello disappeared two weeks ago down the hole with the massive search ending in tragedy overnight. Rescuers made the heartbreaking find about 1.25am local time today after digging out a 13ft horizontal tunnel by hand and reaching the spot they believed he would be trapped. Civil Guard speleologists bored a parallel hole to bring his body up to the […]

Waterloo Regional Police have arrested a 24-year-old man who went on a rampage in downtown Kitchener on Wednesday. Police say that around 1:10 a.m., the man threw a chair through the window of a business on Ontario Street. All was then quiet until around 6:40 p.m. when he began to damage property at other homes and businesses in the area […]

President Donald Trump says lawmakers have reached a deal to reopen the government for three weeks, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history. “I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government,” Trump said Friday from White House Rose Garden. After saying for weeks that he would not […]

Panama City: Pope Francis said on Saturday the Roman Catholic Church was weary and "wounded by her own sin," in an apparent reference to the global sexual abuse crisis. Francis made the comment in the homily of Mass for priests, nuns, and members of Catholic lay organisations in Panama City's newly renovated cathedral of Santa Maria Antigua, the first in […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has offered to hold talks on arm control issues with Russia on the sidelines of a United Nations meeting in Beijing next week, a senior State Department official said on Thursday. Under Secretary of State Andrea Thompson told reporters the talks almost certainly would include a dispute over a Cold War-era treaty limiting intermediate-range […]

Charges have been laid in a hit-and-run collision that left a Blood Tribe Reserve man dead in September of last year. Police were called at around 4:50 a.m. on Sept. 2, 2018 to the area of Highway 5 and Township Road 82 after reports that a man had been hit while two people were walking on the road. The pair […]

MADRID (Reuters) – Major European countries threw their weight behind Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday saying they would recognize him as interim president if Nicolas Maduro failed to call elections within eight days. Britain, Germany, France and Spain all said they would recognize Guaido unless fresh elections were announced. Venezuela has sunk into turmoil under Maduro with food […]