KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – The Taliban have rejected Kabul’s offer of talks next month in Saudi Arabia where the militants, fighting to restore strict Islamic law in Afghanistan, will meet U.S. officials to further peace efforts, a Taliban leader said on Sunday. Representatives from the Taliban, the United States and regional countries met this month in the United Arab Emirates […]

Since it opened three years ago, Vancouver’s cat cafe, the Catfe, has been a smashing success — even attracting superstar singer Adele at one point. The establishment, which serves up coffees and treats — along with a chance to snuggle with kitties — partners with the BC SPCA to help adopt out cats in need of a forever home. The […]

Trump touts ‘big progress’ after phone call with China’s Xi on trade Both the US and China talked of progress on Saturday after telephone talks between their leaders over a trade war that has helped rattle global markets. “Just had a long and very good call with President Xi of China,” US President Donald Trump said on Twitter after the call […]

Donald Trump is too busy watching Fox News to bother working with Democrats to end the government shutdown, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse claims. The shutdown has now lasted seven days, after Trump’s abrupt reversal last week on funding for the border wall. Last week, Trump gave signals to Congressional leaders that he would sign a measure giving temporary funding to […]

The French authorities have been accused of not doing enough to prevent migrants being smuggled across the Channel. But the man, who did not want to be named, said: “I know of some who were very near the UK (waters), just one kilometre away, and the French police brought them back to Calais. “Everywhere is blocked now. I know people […]

Egyptian security forces have killed 40 suspected militants in three separate incidents in North Sinai and Giza, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday, a day after a bombing on a Vietnamese tourist bus in Giza killed four people. The bombing, less than four kilometres from the pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo, is the first deadly attack against foreign tourists […]

Local police fired tear gas as protesters came into conflict with cops, making it just another Saturday of violence in France. Footage emerged of "gilets jaunes" fleeing momentarily after the tear gas was released. The protesters have also formed a barricade using bins. French journalist, Simon Louvet, tweeted: "The GJ are in the streets around Jeanne D'Arc Street and are […]

Surrey RCMP is requesting the public’s assistance in locating George Gettings, who is wanted on an outstanding warrant. George Gettings, of no fixed address, is currently wanted on a warrant for uttering threats. Police believe he may currently be in the downtown Vancouver area. Gettings is described as a 55 year old Caucasian male, 5’11, 190 lbs, with light brown hair and blue eyes. […]

Cape Canaveral, Florida – The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule soon after the stroke of midnight. A combination of images of Pluto’s surface captured by the New Horizons […]