As three WADA staff arrived in Russia on Wednesday, Sky News understands the agency’s president, Sir Craig Reedie, was on a golfing holiday in California. WADA is attempting to extract data from the former Moscow laboratory which was the nerve centre of the country’s doping programme after Russia missed an initial deadline to send the data on 31 December 2018. […]

A report of the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. has cleared the Penticton RCMP of any wrongdoing in the death of a man while in a police cell in August. The report says heart disease was the likely cause of death, and said several times that closed-circuit television showed no physical force between police and the 55-year-old man, who was […]

Winnipeg police say they’re seeing a troubling trend of machetes increasingly being used as a weapon of choice by local criminals. At a press briefing Tuesday – in which details of two machete-related crimes were released – police Cst. Rob Carver said he’s seen the number of machetes on the streets increase significantly over the last two years. “Prior to […]

A 26-year-old man has been charged after police say a Good Samaritan, who was trying to help people stuck in a ditch by a northwest Alberta highway, was assaulted in an attempt to rob him of his snowplow. In a news release issued on Wednesday, the RCMP said officers were called to a robbery in progress on Highway 43 west […]

A Kingston man is facing several charges after police say he brutally assaulted his ex-wife and another woman. Kingston police say a 38-year-old local man broke into his ex-wife’s home, which is located north of the city. He allegedly entered through a rear door, despite numerous court-ordered conditions to stay away from his ex-wife. Police say these conditions stemmed from […]

BELFAST (Reuters) – Ireland’s deputy prime minister said he was “very optimistic” that Northern Ireland’s feuding parties could agree to revive the province’s power-sharing government this year, provided a Brexit deal is agreed by the end of March. The British province has been without a devolved executive for two years, since Irish nationalists Sinn Fein withdrew from the compulsory power-sharing […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German officials are racing to bolster cyber security after a far-reaching data breach by a 20-year-old student laid bare the vulnerability of Europe’s largest economy ahead of a critical European Parliament election in May. Officials say they are anxious to close security gaps and raise awareness ahead of the upcoming election, where voters from across the European […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – The guns have mostly fallen silent around the Yemeni port of Hodeidah and the skies are clear of warplanes, but a U.N.-sponsored deal for the warring armies to quit the city has stalled, risking efforts to end a conflict that has pushed the country to the brink of famine. The Iranian-aligned Houthis and the Saudi-backed government agreed […]

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has stumbled out of the gate with infighting, policy flip-flops and confusion in his one-week-old government, raising concern among investors about his ability to carry out pressing fiscal reforms. Divisions have quickly emerged between his political and economic teams over plans to overhaul a messy tax code and costly pension system […]

Waterloo Regional Police made an arrest in Kitchener in the “Venom robbery” that occurred on Weber Street. On Tuesday, police released images of a suspect in connection to the case. He appeared to be wearing a Venom mask and shirt — a supervillain in Spiderman comics. Police say that at around 1:15 p.m. Monday, the suspect entered a convenience store […]