Our Polite Neighbors to the North When police found the intruder at the Ottawa stables, he was in a stall with his pants down and his penis up, standing next to a miniature pony that MORE
Early Wednesday, Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his own home. His wife survived but suffered injuries from the brutal attack; she’s recovering in a local hospital. Interim Premier Claude Joseph called the killing a MORE
Justin Trudeau says he hopes to announce loosened travel restrictions at the U.S.- Canada border in the “coming weeks,” but it will depend on the trajectory of Covid-19. Both countries agreed to a non-essential travel MORE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — American authorities took down a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites under unclear circumstances on Tuesday, the U.S. and Iran said, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown MORE
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has prompted more speculation about his health after recent photographs suggested he had lost weight. Kim, whose heavy frame has drawn global interest since he became the country’s leader almost MORE
The largest warship in the Iranian Navy caught fire and sunk early Wednesday morning in the Gulf of Oman. The circumstances are unclear. The fire began around 2:25a.m. on the 207-meter (679-foot) Kharg, which was used MORE
The Polite Canadian “Last night, while attending House of Commons proceedings virtually, in a non-public setting, I urinated without realizing I was on camera,” said William Amos, a member of Justin Trudeau’s ruling Liberal party, MORE
Race organizers accused of not heeding warnings after rain, hail, and gale-force winds forecast across Gansu province Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into the death of 21 people in an ultramarathon over the weekend, as family MORE
President Biden’s unusually blunt demand Wednesday that Israel de-escalate its military attack on Gaza is creating a rare rift between the two countries and dismaying some of Israel’s supporters in the United States, while heartening MORE
Ongoing updates from the BBC:https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-57168671 Efforts to broker a truce between Israel and Palestinian militants continue, but little progress appears to have been made “The operation is continuing at full-throttle. There is still no ceasefire MORE
A manhunt is under way in Belgium for a heavily armed soldier with links to the extreme right who has made threats against a high-profile virologist who backed the country’s Covid lockdowns. Named only as Jurgen C, MORE
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets on Saturday, hours after another air raid on MORE
Late Wednesday, a jury in Rome found Finnegan Lee Elder, 21 and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20 guilty of stabbing Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega to death in July 2019. They were both given life sentences in prison. On the night MORE
After the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in 2012, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, told Americans agitating for new gun regulations, “The only thing that stops a bad guy MORE
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect MORE
Indonesian search teams believe they have identified an area where a missing naval submarine with 53 people on board could be located, as authorities warn oxygen on the vessel will run out within hours. The MORE
Our Polite Neighbor to the North, eh A driver has been charged after using his dump truck to push a car for over half a kilometre on the Gardiner Expressway on Tuesday, Toronto police say. Const. MORE
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is called a “strongman,” and he likes the title. But he’s anything but strong. Duterte’s fake tough-man persona was again proved on Monday as China invaded waters in the Philippines’ exclusive MORE
Now we know that British exports to the European Union plummeted by a cataclysmic 41% after Brexit on 1 January, what next?This is not the “slow puncture” predicted, but a big bang. Yet so far, it registers MORE
The European Union will review all requests to export AstraZeneca Plc vaccines to the U.K. “very severely” and will probably reject them until the drugmaker fulfills its delivery obligations to the bloc, a senior EU official said. MORE
French satire magazine Charlie Hebo sparks outrage over their depiction of Queen Elizabeth kneeling on Meghan Markle’s neck in a parody of George Floyds’ death. MORE
Dutch police on Wednesday said a coronavirus testing location in a town north of Amsterdam appeared to have been intentionally targeted, after an explosion went off early in the morning before the site had opened. MORE
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced in a French court Monday to three years in prison, for corruption and influence peddling. The dramatic and historic verdict and sentencing quieted a Paris courtroom, as the MORE
Inflicts Fatal Injuries to Man’s Groin! The bird had a knife attached to its leg ready to take on an opponent when it inflicted serious injuries to the man’s groin as it tried to escape, MORE
Uber suffered a major defeat in one of its most important markets on Friday when Britain’s Supreme Court, in a ruling that could threaten the future of the already unprofitable company, said a group of MORE