GAZA (Reuters) – Gaza authorities arrested five Palestinians on Saturday on suspicion of ransacking the offices of President Mahmoud Abbas’s official Palestine Television station, Hamas’s interior ministry said. On Friday, assailants destroyed cameras, editing and broadcasting equipment in the Gaza office of the station, part of the Palestinian Broadcast Corporation (PBC), which broadcasts material supportive of Abbas. Station officials immediately […]

Three people have died in U.S. national parks since the government shutdown began on Dec. 22. The three deaths happened over a seven-day period starting on Christmas Eve and were all due to accidents or falls, the Washington Post reports. On Christmas Eve, a 14-year-old girl fell 700 feet down a canyon at Glen Canyon National Park in Arizona. A […]

A two-hour police investigation in Winnipeg’s Elmwood neighborhood on Friday evening resulted in an arrest in connection with the New Year’s Day death of Adam Travis Martin. Storm Alexander Moar, 22, of Winnipeg has been charged with second-degree murder as well as three firearm-related offences. For over an hour on Friday afternoon, residents in the 500 block of Kent Road […]

Toronto police say a Brampton man has been arrested and charged after allegedly forcing a 17-year-old girl into the sex trade. Police said officers launched a human trafficking investigation on Dec. 27 and found a girl who had been trafficked throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Police said a man used “intimidation and fear” over the girl to make her follow […]

A man is facing charges after a flight from Calgary to London, England, was forced to turn around on Friday night. WestJet Flight 1 took off from Calgary shortly after 6 p.m. and returned to the gate at 8:30 p.m. Police were called to the airport around 7 p.m. to take the man into custody when the plane arrived back […]

Three people have died at national parks across America since the government shutdown began, with one death going unreported for a week. Meanwhile, trash and human feces continue to bedevil the parks, in the absence of workers to provide even the most basic of basic services. The government shutdown is entering its third week, with Congress and the president seemingly […]

A picture of "Matrix" actor Keanu Reeves (left) appeared to be featured in Chinese government posters (right) (Getty (left image)) An untold number of Chinese Uighurs, estimated anywhere between one and 5.5 million, have disappeared into prisons and camps under Communist Party rule in the country’s autonomous Xinjiang region, according to activists and human rights groups, following a large-scale effort to purge and […]

His life was cut short when he was assassinated at age 39, but he still gave African-Americans the courage to speak up against injustice. Here we tell you everything about him and how he is remembered today. When is Martin Luther King Day 2019? Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an American federal holiday. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia […]

Tory MP Andrew Rosindell is accused of bigotry after it emerged his Facebook account was a ‘member’ of group that supported ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson while he was locked up Backbench MP for Romford Rosindell, 52, denies that he joined the group  An account under his name was found to have joined the Facebook group in May Robinson was jailed […]

A man allegedly trying to kidnap a woman chased her into a karate dojo. You can guess what happened next. This was the scene Thursday evening at Bushiken Karate Charlotte Dojo in north Charlotte, N.C., WSOC reported. It all began when the suspect tried to force a woman into his car outside the dojo just before 9 p.m., police say. […]