A high stakes bid by the Venezuelan opposition to transport aid into the country turned deadly on Friday as government forces opened fire on a group of indigenous volunteers, killing at least one woman and injuring 12. Members of the indigenous community in the southern town of Kumarakapay, bordering Brazil, on Friday night took the commander of…
LONDON — Teenage royal wedding guest Faith Dickinson says she’s got her “dream dress” ready for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Peterborough, Ont., resident is among the throngs of royal fans who have flooded the town of Windsor west of London to celebrate the union at Windsor Castle on Saturday. But…
If you have any doubts as to how severe Toronto’s housing crisis is becoming, take a look at a recently-listed apartment for rent at 40 Beaty Avenue. At 200 square feet, it barely qualifies for the title of “apartment” — people have walk-in closets larger than this place. And it was listed on Kijiji for…
A fiery train crash killed at least 25 people at Cairo’s main station on Wednesday in the latest disaster to strike Egypt’s run-down railways. The train engine appeared to have slammed into the buffers at the end of the track at high speed, sparking a major blaze at the Ramses station and leaving 40 more people injured. Egyptian…
Prince Harry is officially a married man but there is light at the end of the tunnel — namely, in the form of the royal’s hot cousins. Although all eyes were on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during their royal wedding on Saturday, 24-year-old Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and his sister, Kitty Spencer, turned…
Click: SINGAPORE — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began laying out his case for closer trade ties with Asian nations Tuesday, and issuing a challenge to domestic businesses to not disappear once the ink dries on any government-struck agreements. Speaking to a room of Canadian companies already invested in the region, and local companies interested in…
The British schoolgirl who ran away to join Isil has appealed for public sympathy following the birth of her son, as a row intensifies over whether she should be allowed to return to the UK. Shamima Begum, 19, went to Syria in 2015 and was discovered there in a refugee camp last week, heavily pregnant…
OTTAWA — The country’s annual inflation rate eased to 2.8 per cent in August as still-rising gasoline prices advanced at a more-moderate pace, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency’s latest number came in just below the previous month’s three per cent reading, which had pushed inflation to the top end of the Bank of Canada’s…
Canadians who are tired of Tinder and bored of Bumble now have a new online dating option: Facebook. Hey, they already have all your data — why not use it to help you get a date? The company announced its intention to get into the dating space at a developer conference this spring, which promptly…
The Royal Ascot has been described as Britain’s poshest sporting event, so when we heard Meghan Markle would make her official debut at the event on Tuesday, we imagined something like this: Our imagination wasn’t far off, as the Duchess of Sussex arrived at the horseracing event with her new husband, Prince Harry, dressed to…