Two leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been found guilty of genocide. The verdict was announced on Friday, four decades after an estimated 1.7 million people – or up to a third of Cambodia’s population – were killed. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, now 92 and 87, are the most senior surviving officials of…
It was intended to be a creative way to announce a new baby’s sex to friends and family. Instead a new father’s use of colourful explosives went horribly wrong, leading to a wildfire that burned through 47,000 acres and caused more than $8 million worth of damage. Footage released by the US Forest Service on…
Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has been receiving medical treatment in Singapore for the last two months and is no longer able to walk, though he should return home next week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. Mr Mugabe, 94, who ruled the southern African nation for nearly four decades since independence from Britain in…
The husband of a British charity worker in prison in Iran today welcomed the news of academic Matthew Hedges’s release, saying it brought hope for his own case and showed Jeremy Hunt to be a "straight" negotiator. Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was handed a five-year jail sentence in 2016 over spying charges, said…
House prices decline in seven of 11 major cities Toronto could see prolonged slowdown Vancouver price pressures may ‘fade out’ in coming months The impact of rising interest rates and Canada’s new mortgage rules took a toll on the country’s housing market in February, with prices falling in the vast majority of major cities. The…
Delegations from both sides of Yemen’s war have arrived in Sweden for peace talks, with the UN hoping the two can at least agree on a ceasefire for the strategic port city of Hodeidah to allow in desperately needed aid. A 12-member team from the Saudi-backed government headed by Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani left Riyadh early…
OTTAWA — American trade officials are showing newfound interest in a Canadian proposal for revamping NAFTA’s automotive provisions as the U.S. seeks to swiftly conclude renegotiations of the continental free trade pact. And that’s being taken in some quarters as a sign that the U.S. may realize it will have to settle for making only…
The government of Dubai has broken its silence on the case of its missing princess, saying she was safely back home and accused a former French spy of her kidnap. Sheikha Latifa, the daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Dubai’s ruler, tried to escape the country in March after complaining she was effectively being…
A French singer whose music video about the “yellow vest” anti-government protests went viral on social media has rejected accusations that her song is anti-Semitic. Marguerite, 28, performs the song while dancing with a group of women and children on a roundabout, most of whom are wearing high-visibility jackets. The lyrics express sympathy for the “yellow vests”,…
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s newest senior economic adviser is a big fan of trade with Canada: he’s pro-NAFTA, anti-tariff and doesn’t mince words while letting everyone know. The White House is confirming that Larry Kudlow has been named to the post, replacing Gary Cohn, who resigned last week. Trump had said he was seriously considering…