HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised action on Tuesday in response to a brutal crackdown by security forces on anti-government protesters, as two of his supporters spoke of a possible plot to remove him from office. Lawyers and activists say police and soldiers have killed at least a dozen people, wounded scores and arrested hundreds since demonstrations began […]

ROME (Reuters) – Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, stoking a war of words between Rome and Paris, said on Tuesday that France did not want to bring calm to Libya because its energy interests there clashed with those of Italy. Relations between Italy and France, traditionally close allies, have grown frosty since the far-right League and anti-establishment 5-Star Movement formed […]

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning of potential freezing rain and snow for the Waterloo region and Wellington County. The statement says a band of snow is expected to hit the area Tuesday night. A rise in temperatures will see the snow shift to freezing rain by Wednesday morning before we see a switch into rain. Temperatures […]

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – A trial of four Kenyan policemen accused of killing the son of a British aristocrat began in a Mombasa court on Tuesday, with prosecutors saying they plan to bring 45 witnesses to testify. Naftali Chege, Charles Wangombe Munyiri, Baraka Bulima and John Pamba are charged with the killing in May 2012 of 28-year-old Alexander Monson. Monson […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Cardiff City’s new soccer star Emiliano Sala was on board a light aircraft that disappeared en route to the Welsh capital for his club debut, France’s civil aviation authority said on Tuesday. Sala was flying from the French city of Nantes to Cardiff when the plane lost radar contact off the English Channel island Guernsey late on […]

Escort who claimed she had dirt on Trump arrested in Moscow A leaked audio tape allegedly reveals Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his associates planned the arrest of a Belarusian model who claimed she had proof of President Trump’s campaign colluding with the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential election. The existence of the tapes was announced on Monday by Russian […]

Tow trucks drivers might have to apply the brakes on what one London city councillor calls the “predatory business practice” of racing to the scene of a car crash and using high-pressure tactics to secure business. Ward 2 Councillor Shawn Lewis’s letter, written on the heels of a first-hand experience with “chaser” towing services after a crash in December, is […]

Her dad is being investigated on manslaughter charges as the unnamed child was pronounced dead shortly after being rushed to hospital in south-western Taiwan. Doctors at Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital said the girl’s lungs were confirmed to have ruptured and then collapsed. The girl’s severe injuries are thought to be the result of the car-wash air gun having been put […]

A number of Ontario mayors were more than a little apprehensive last week when Doug Ford’s government announced they were undertaking a review of regional governments in a number of communities. You may recall that the Mike Harris government got the amalgamation ball rolling in the 1990s amid promises of millions of dollars of tax savings and much better service […]

A Vancouver Park Board commissioner is bringing a motion to the board next week he hopes will result in a switch to emissions-free landscaping equipment. Commissioner Dave Demers wants staff to develop a transition plan to switch from gas-powered equipment to environmentally friendly alternatives, and he says the pollution caused by the current equipment is astonishing. Along with being bad […]