World

The Alberta government has introduced legislation that would give the energy minister power to restrict the flow of oil, gasoline, and natural gas leaving the province. Once passed, Marg McCuaig-Boyd would be able to direct truckers, pipeline companies, and rail operators on how much product could be shipped and when. Violators would face fines of […]

The United States and Britain on Monday accused Russia of launching cyber attacks on computer routers, firewalls and other networking equipment used by government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators around the globe. Washington and London issued a joint alert saying the campaign by Russian government-backed hackers was intended to advance spying, intellectual property theft […]

BEIRUT—The Syrian army began preparatory shelling for an assault on the last area outside its control near Damascus on Tuesday, a commander in the pro-government alliance said, building on its recent capture of the major suburb of eastern Ghouta. Recovering the Yarmouk camp and neighboring areas located south of the city would give President Bashar […]

CARACAS—Chauffeured around in a sleek black pick-up, the head of Venezuela’s oil industry, Major General Manuel Quevedo, last month toured a joint venture with U.S. major Chevron. Flanked by other trucks carrying security guards, Quevedo passed a handful of workers waiting by an oil well cluster. They wanted a word with the OPEC nation’s oil […]

BERLIN—The Group of Seven industrialized nations condemned the alleged chemical attack in eastern Ghouta in Syria on April 7 and backed “proportionate” efforts by the United States, Britain and France to stop the future use of such weapons. “We fully support efforts made by the United States, the U.K. and France to decrease the capacity […]

MONTREAL—The Quebec government says it is facing the prospect of even more asylum seekers entering the province from the United States this year and wants the federal government to come up with a plan to deal with the influx. The number so far this year has tripled to 6,074 from about 2,000 during the same […]

MONTREAL—A Montreal mountaineer will attempt to become the first solo woman to climb Canada’s highest mountain in a trek that begins next month. Should Monique Richard reach the summit of Yukon’s Mount Logan, she will be the first female to reach the top by herself, according to officials with Parks Canada and data it has […]

The death of the password could be upon us. A new security standard recently endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium has experts excited about the prospect of making logins “unphishable” and ending the vulnerabilities that currently exist because so many users have poor “password hygiene” and reuse the same one across countless websites. The […]

A UFO made out of concrete sits atop a mountaintop in Bulgaria. The Buzludzha Monument sits at the site of a battle between the Bulgarians and the Turks in 1868, according to Atlas Obscura. In 1891, a group of socialists met on the same site to plan Bulgaria’s future. In memory of these two events, the […]

This weekend marked the 106th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Some 1,500 passengers and crew members died on April 15, 1912, when the Titanic struck an iceberg.  The ship went down in the North Atlantic, south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Cable ships were dispatched from Halifax in the aftermath to pluck bodies from […]

Toronto police laid a new murder charge against alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur on Monday, but said the latest suspected victim does not fit the profile of the other seven men he’s believed to have slain. Det. Sgt. Hank Idsinga said the self-employed landscaper was charged in the death of 37-year-old Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, who […]

A truck full of hay caught fire in the middle of a market in India, driving through the town as it became engulfed in a massive blaze. A video of the truck emerged on Indian media on Thursday, April 12, and reportedly happened on Kundanpur Road in the Ranapur area of the Central Indian district […]

The Estevan Bruins made a pit stop on their way into Nipawin, Sask., on Friday night to pay their respects to members of the Humboldt Broncos who were killed in a bus crash. Just over 24 hours later, the Bruins stood in a circle around centre ice with the Nipawin Hawks for a moment of […]

By Cynthia Kim SEOUL—A discotheque hidden among the back alleys of eastern Seoul is packed with hundreds of grey-haired couples on a Monday afternoon, dancing to local hits from the 1960s in a basketball court-sized hall. Kim Sa-gyu, 85, calls it his “playground.” “What else would I do all day? My family is busy with […]

Jackie Hartog opens the door to her white van as she pulls out her cell phone, checking the Ikwe Safe Rides Facebook group to see where she will be heading next. She’s been volunteering with the Winnipeg non-profit for about two years and has provided transportation for women around the city. “It’s fantastic. I always […]

Tens of thousands of people across southern and central Ontario remained without power Monday morning as the province’s massive ice storm transitioned to drenching rain. Provincial power utility Hydro One said its crews were working to reconnect more than 76,000 customers, while Toronto Hydro said the number of customers in the dark had shrunk to […]

NEW DELHI—Indian ride-hailing firm Ola, backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group, said it will add 10,000 electric three-wheelers to its fleet over the next 12 months as part of a plan to promote the use of electric vehicles. Ola plans to have 1 million electric vehicles on offer by 2021, it said in a statement, adding […]

THE HAGUE—Russia may have tampered with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Douma, the U.S. envoy to the global watchdog said on Monday, urging the body to condemn the continuing use of banned chemical weapons. The comments came during a closed-door meeting at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, […]

Last June, a new internet regulation took effect in China that sent foreign firms into a panic: all domestic and foreign firms would be required to store their data on servers within China, and be subject to security checks by Chinese authorities. Companies grew concerned that this would allow the Chinese regime access to sensitive […]

LIMA, Peru—Canada has become the latest to lay the blame for a deadly chemical-weapons attack in Syria last week at Syrian President Bashar Assad’s doorstep, despite Russian suggestions to the contrary. “When it comes to this use of chemical weapons, it is clear to Canada that chemical weapons were used and that they were used […]

LIMA, PERU—Leaders of North and South America decried the use of chemical weapons by Syria at the Summit of the Americas on April 14. All countries throughout the Americas except Bolivia and Cuba condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and urged him to stop chemical attacks on his citizens. Standing in for Trump at the Lima […]

LONDON–Russia’s intelligence agencies spied on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were attacked with a nerve agent in March, the national security adviser to Britain’s prime minister said. Mark Sedwill said in a letter to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday that email accounts […]

A house built via 3-D printing was unveiled to the public on Saturday, April 7, in western France, with backers praising it as a breakthrough in green construction. While it is not the first created with printing technology, this is the first house ever built in situ intended for permanent habitation. The house will be […]

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT—Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria’s chemical weapons program. The United States, France, and Britain launched 105 missiles overnight in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria a week ago, targeting what the Pentagon said were three chemical weapons facilities including a research and development in […]

Warning: This video footage might be disturbing to some. Food shortages in the socialist country Venezuela has meant that some sick animals have been “sacrificed” to feed healthier ones. According to the Miami Herald, even zoo animals are starving. Raul Julia-Levy — an animal rights activist — is hoping to round up the animals via a […]

About 2,500 hockey fans chanted “go Broncos go” one final time on April 13 for a 19-year-old described as “the classic underdog hockey player.” Jacob Leicht was one of 16 people who have died after a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos and a truck collided on April 6 at a rural intersection north of Tisdale. […]

A man has been jailed for narrowly missing a 1,600-tonne freight train after driving onto a rail crossing. Giedrius Puisys, 38, of Camden Road, Ipswich was handed a 12-month prison sentence and a three-year driving ban at Ipswich Crown Court. Officers released the footage, in the clip above, which shows the narrow-miss. Police said Puisys […]