JAKARTA (Reuters) – An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 struck 174 km (108 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ternate in Indonesia’s Molucca islands on Sunday, followed by a series of aftershocks, but with no tsunami risk, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake hit at a depth of 60.5 km and was followed by aftershocks of a […]

The Atlantic branch of the Canadian Red Cross is assisting a New Brunswick family of four after they lost their home in a fire on Saturday, Jan. 5. The Red Cross says the fire was reported “late Saturday afternoon” at 2918 Highway 625 in the rural New Brunswick community of Parker Ridge. A couple and two children are currently staying […]

WARSAW (AFP) – Polish prosecutors probing the deaths of five teenage girls in an “escape room” said Sunday (Jan 6) they had charged an owner of the facility with deliberately creating a fire hazard that led to the blaze. The five girls, all aged 15 according to Polish media, died and one man was seriously injured on Friday (Jan 4) […]

Toronto police say two men have been injured in a shooting near Queen and Woodbine Sunday afternoon. Police said they received a call around 2:30 p.m. for reports of a shooting in the area. When authorities arrived on the scene, they discovered two men with injuries to their lower bodies. There is no word on their condition, but police said […]

JERUSALEM (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser on Sunday (Jan 6) set out conditions for the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, saying the defence of allies must first be assured. The comments by John Bolton during a visit to Israel signalled a far more gradual US withdrawal than initially set out by Trump, whose Dec 19 […]

Kabul, Afghanistan: The death toll after a collapse at a gold mine in Afghanistan has climbed to 35, a local official said. A worker carries a 28 kilogram gold bar.Credit:Bloomberg At least 12 others were injured in the accident on Sunday morning, provincial council member Abdullah Naji Nazari said. The number of victims could rise, he said. About 50 workers […]

The attacks and fire-bombings sweeping Brazil’s northeastern state of Ceara continued unabated Sunday despite the deployment of at least 300 members the elite, military-style National Police Force to help bring an end to the violence. The state’s public security department said that buses and cars were torched and gas stations were attacked in Fortaleza, the capital, and in at least […]

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun is being held in a hotel room at a Bangkok airport, after being stopped by officials following a flight from Kuwait. She fled her family, who she says beat her, threatened her, and locked her in a room for six months for cutting her hair, when they left the Kingdom on a holiday to Kuwait. Phil Robertson, […]

Israel has arrested five Jewish seminary students in the occupied West Bank in connection with a rock attack on a Palestinian car that killed a woman, the Israeli domestic intelligence service said on Sunday. The detainees “are suspected of grave terrorist offenses including murder,” the Shin Bet service said in a statement after a court order limiting media coverage of […]

The arson squad is investigating after a suspicious fire in the parking lot of Avco Inc., a construction and snow removal company on Creusot St. in the Montreal borough of Saint-Leonard. Montreal police spokesperson Manuel Couture said a 911 call came in at about 10 p.m. on Saturday, reporting three snow removal trucks were on fire. “Firefighters quickly brought the […]