Seven months ago Nicolas Maduro seemed to be on the brink. A rival for the Venezuelan presidency, Juan Guaido, emerged out of nowhere and led the most serious challenge to Chavismo in 20 years. Weary Venezuelans dared to believe that they were finally to get a new government. Today the picture is very different. Mr […]
A court In India’s southern Kerala state has sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment for killing a low caste Dalit Christian for marrying a higher caste woman. The court in Kerala’s Kottayam district also fined each of the convicted men £456 for killing Kevin Joseph, a 23-year old electrician, in May last year, three days […]
Click:Tea bag making machine Britain, the US and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by supporting a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the United Nations has said. UN investigators recommended that the UK and others, who have since 2015 been arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to […]
The death of Iranian woman who set herself on fire in protest against the ban on women entering the country’s football stadium has prompted an outcry against the country’s draconian law. Know as the “Blue Girl” for her support of the Iranian football team Estighlal, Sahar Khodayari attempted self immolation last Saturday after leaving a […]
Frenchhunters locked horns with Luc Besson in court on Monday, demanding the Gallic film mogul pay €122,000 (£108,000) for damage caused by wild deer he refuses to cull in the grounds of his vast Normandy estate. The local Orne hunting federation say they are tired of having to pay compensation to a dozen local farmers […]
En ces premiers jours de juillet, les bains de soleil sont imminents. Un casse-tête pour les parents, qui doivent s’assurer de se procurer la bonne protection solaire pour leurs enfants. Voici quelques questions à se poser au préalable afin de s’assurer d’opter pour le bon produit. Sommaire “Crèmes pour enfants” : critère absolu ? Doit-on […]
Finally! After a four-month forced break, Formula 1 was up and running this morning at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. Here’s our first batch of pics from the opening day of action from Spielberg. 133 You may also like Austrian GP: Thursday’s build-up in pictures McLaren updates ML35 livery with #WeRaceAsOne colors Mercedes test […]
Maybe you had COVID-19 and didn’t even know it. It’s a thought on many Canadians’ minds as we enter another month of the coronavirus pandemic. While the total number of test-positive cases in Canada has surpassed 100,000, the number of people who have actually been infected with the virus is likely much much higher. That’s […]
It looks like hockey is finally coming back — and specifically to the Great White North. Barring unforeseen setbacks, Edmonton and Toronto are expected to be named as hub cities for the revised NHL playoffs, according to TSN. And the news that the rest of the NHL season will be played exclusively on Canadian soil […]
Conservatives are calling on the federal procurement watchdog to review several sole-sourced contracts between the Liberal government and WE Charity, the international, youth-based organization recently tapped to administer a $900-million student-grant program. In a letter sent Thursday to Procurement Ombudsman Alexander Jeglic, Tory MPs Kelly Block, Dan Albas, and Raquel Dancho said “justifiable concerns” have […]