HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean activist pastor Evan Mawarire who was arrested on charges of subversion amid violent anti-government protests is expected to apply for bail at a High Court hearing on Friday. Security forces have dispersed demonstrations by force and cracked down on activists. Protests erupted last week following a hike in fuel prices. Rights groups say a dozen people […]

Move over Gritty. Crime fighters in B.C.’s interior are hoping to harness the fuzzy power of a mascot to bring down crooks. The Kamloops and District Crime Stoppers has unveiled ‘Anonymoose,’ a plush moose in a red shirt that’s a riff on the organization’s mandate to accept anonymous tips. The organization says Anonymoose is meant to help raise awareness of […]

Dr Yang Hengjun,  an Australian citizen of Chinese heritage, took a flight on China Southern Airlines from New York to Shanghai and arrived in Guangzhou Airport at 5am last Saturday. Right after passing through customs he was abducted by a group of Chinese State Security personnel and taken into custody. Taken into custody in China: Yang Hengjun.Credit:tanya lake His wife […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Thursday ordered some U.S. government workers to leave Venezuela and said U.S. citizens should consider leaving the country, one day after Washington recognized an opposition politician as Venezuela’s president. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro broke off diplomatic relations with Washington and gave U.S. embassy personnel three days to leave the country after President […]

A province-wide warrant has been issued for a former Hells Angels associate who was about to be sentenced for producing drugs for the purpose of trafficking. Leslie McCulloch and his girlfriend, Rebekka Rae White, were arrested in March of 2016 after a police raid at a West Kelowna auto restoration shop. Related Mounties seek alleged drug dealer on B.C.-wide warrant […]

Dante, 14, has been viciously attacked twice since he joined his new school in October last year – one resulting in post-concussion syndrome. In the teen's first beating at the Milford Haven School in Pembrokeshire, Wales,  when he was allegedly punched in the throat in an unprovoked assault. His mum claimed that her son had "weeks of meat thrown at him". Rachel […]

Theresa May dined with the co-chairman of the controversial Presidents Club just weeks after she criticised an event where female staff were ‘forced to dress sexily’ and propositioned by guests Bruce Ritchie met Prime Minister weeks after she spoke out against the dinner Investigation revealed female wait staff were allegedly forced to dress sexily  Millionaire has donated at least £50,000 […]

Inside the prison once described as Georgia’s Abu Ghraib where speedboat killer Jack Shepherd will be jailed for up to nine months and where he’d rather stay than come back to the UK to face justice Killer to spend the next three months in Tblisi’s Gldani maximum security prison  Gldani was at centre of scandal in 2012 where inmates were […]

An extensive investigation has led to theft charges for a Brighton, Ont., couple in connection with a volunteer organization. In July 2018, Northumberland OPP began a probe into a reported theft from an organization in the town of Brighton, about 35 kilometres east of Cobourg. On Friday, police said they made two arrests on Thursday. The name of the volunteer-based […]

The impasse between the government of Nicolas Maduro and the interim government of opposition leader Juan Guaido entered its third day in Venezuela — as both leaders gave defiant national addresses on Friday, and a new report suggested that private military contractors were dispatched from Russia to help beef up Maduro’s security team. Interested in Venezuela? The dueling speeches took […]