Trump refuses to back down on request for $5bn in funding for US-Mexico wall as partial gov’t shutdown enters fifth day. Partial government shutdown Departments affected: Homeland Security, Interior, Justice, State, Transportation, Treasury, among others About 800,000 federal workers affected Workers affected are furloughed or those deemed essential asked to work without pay US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday […]

Halifax Regional Police have issued a warning after a rash of thefts from vehicles in the area of Clayton Park. Police say they have recently received at least 10 reports of thefts from vehicles during the overnight hours. Officers say many of the reported incidents were in the areas of Harlington Crescent, Willett Street, Gristmill Court, Covington Way and Westridge […]

The dash for Boxing Day deals in Metro Vancouver started early Wednesday morning. A small group of shoppers started lining up at 4 a.m. at the Best Buy on Cambie Street in Vancouver. One shopper said he was “very surprised there’s few people here. Barely no one is here.” Fewer than 50 customers walked in when Best Buy opened its […]

Nine people were injured in Tuesday’s protests in capital city Khartoum, according to Sudanese Doctors’ Association Medical students at the University of Gadarif in eastern Sudan joined doctors at a central hospital on Wednesday to demand that President Omar al-Bashir step down, as anti-government protests entered their eighth day.  Sudanese doctors, who launched a strike on Monday to protest the […]

Peru says that, after December, it will not offer work permits to the 2,000 Venezuelan migrants that are crossing the border daily, but will keep the border open. The UN is expecting at least another two million Venezuelans to flee their country in the coming year. In Peru, immigration officials are cracking down those working without a permit and have […]

While it may be hard for Trump’s most vocal critics to find a redeeming quality about the current president, the Hill reports that the Intercept‘s White House Bureau chief, Ryan Grim, has found at least one — the economy. Appearing on Hill.TV’s Rising with Krystal Ball on Wednesday, December 26, Grim was asked about the potential ease of defeating President […]

Official estimates say 125,000 protesters took to streets across France on Saturday, with 10,000 in Paris alone. A huge cleanup operation has been launched in Paris after France’s “yellow vest” protesters took to the streets for the fourth week running. Demonstrators clashed with riot police in the French capital on Saturday, setting fire to cars, burning barricades and smashing windows […]

The Chang’e-4 lunar probe mission blasts off in a bid to become the world’s first to explore the far side of the moon. China has launched a rover to the far side of the moon in an ambitious bid to become the world’s first to explore the lunar “dark side”. The Chang’e-4 lunar probe mission blasted off on a Long […]

The UN is urging member nations to reach an agreement in Morocco on a framework for global migration issues. Marrakech, Morocco – There were 258 million international migrants in the world last year, increasing almost 50 percent since 2000, according to the United Nations. If all of the world’s international migrants lived in a single country, it would be the […]

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A grieving Bosnian Serb father who was released from detention on Wednesday said he would continue to lead protests demanding the truth about the death of his son, defying a police ban. The police in Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic arrested Davor Dragicevic and several other people on Tuesday, including his former wife and opposition politicians, during scuffles […]