It’s no secret that Gov. Cuomo seeks greater control over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. But Tuesday’s MTA board meeting — on his idea to cancel the long-planned shutdown of the L-train tunnel — was a three-hour advertisement for checks and balances on the governor’s transit power. The meeting was an unmitigated disaster for the MTA, which has no solid plan […]

Crimean Tatar leaders say they fear another pro-Russian crackdown on the persecuted Muslim community. Bakhchisaray, Ukraine – Mumine Saliyeva cannot forget how masked, gun-toting pro-Russian security officers pounded on her door last October. They arrived to search her apartment and arrest her husband, Seiran Saliyev. “Every day, I check a hundred times whether the door is locked, I get up at […]

GRAND-BOURGTHEROULDE, France (Reuters) – France’s Emmanuel Macron began a national debate on Tuesday meant to calm protests against high living costs, but he may have started on the wrong foot by suggesting some poor people were “screwing” with the system. The president paid a surprise visit to a village in Normandy on his way to what was the first of […]

London police say a 14-year-old is facing charges, including armed robbery, after three jewelry stores were targeted over the course of two days. Police say a young person went to a jewelry store in Masonville Mall at around 8 p.m. last Thursday night, asked to view a piece of jewelry, and then fled with the item in their possession. At […]

Washington: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is urging Republican senators to support the Trump administration's decision to ease sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.Credit:AP Mnuchin met privately with senators on Tuesday before a vote on a resolution from Democrats. That measure would prevent the administration from lifting penalties against the aluminum manufacturing giant […]

Police have arrested and charged a pair of Winnipeg men for Sunday night break-ins in the Osborne Village area. Officers caught up with the two suspects – who were found in possession of a number of stolen items, plus a folding knife and a pry bar – in the 200 block of Wellington Crescent. Police said the two men forced […]

From the world’s most important power relation to key elections in the region, here’s what our foreign correspondents around the world will be keeping an eye on in the coming year. Source: Read Full Article

The lawyer for the man accused in the fatal stabbing of an Abbotsford high school student says he is fit to stand trial. At a B.C. Review Board hearing on Tuesday, the lawyer for Gabriel Klein, along with counsel for the Crown and Klein’s doctor, agreed he is fit to stand trial in the death of 13-year-old Letisha Reimer at Abbotsford […]

A statue of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti was unveiled Sunday in a plaza in Havana, a gift by the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a gesture of friendship in a time of strained US-Cuban relations. A statue of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti was unveiled Sunday in a plaza in Havana, a gift by the Bronx Museum of […]

Ankara says US withdrawal is ‘necessary immediately’ as it plans to push Syrian Kurdish fighters from all of north Syria Turkey has called on the United States to withdraw its military personnel from northern Syria’s Manbij region after announcing Ankara’s plan to push Syrian Kurdish fighters from the area, according to local media. Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, said on […]