WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate will hear opening arguments in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial today, beginning up to six days of presentations on the question of whether Trump should be removed from office. After battling into the early morning hours of this morning over the trial’s rules,... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO/CAIRO (Reuters) -U.N. experts have demanded an immediate investigation by U.S. and other authorities into allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. The U.N. special rapporteurs, Agnes Callamard and David Kaye, said today that they... Read more
Provincial police are searching for five missing French tourists after their snowmobiles fell through the ice of Lac-Saint-Jean on Tuesday evening. The group of eight tourists from France were being led by a tour guide that day who later died after being pulled from a channel that was covered... Read more
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Daimler AG warned its earnings halved in 2019 and it faced further charges of up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion)related to dieel pollution, in the latest blow to the German luxury carmaker. The profit downgrade, blamed on restructuring costs at the company’s vans and mobility services... Read more
Toronto police charged 15-year-old with second-degree murder following Monday’s Scarborough shooting
Toronto police have charged a 15-year-old boy with second-degree murder after the shooting of a fellow teen in Scarborough on Monday afternoon. Safiullah Khosrawi was gunned down on Monday while walking home from school in the Markham-Ellesmere Rds. area at about 3:10 p.m. He was rushed to the hospital... Read more
China steps up prevention of new coronavirus pneumonia
HealthInternationalNewsUncategorized Jan 22, 2020
SEATTLE, Wash. (REUTERS) –A Washington state man who recently traveled to China has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, becoming the first confirmed U.S. case of the newly identified illness that has killed 17 people in China and sickened some 400 others across Asia. In Canada, steps have been taken... Read more
The Church of the Holy Trinity’s Toronto Homeless Memorial passed 1,000 names on January 14, following the death of Daniel Duncan the day before. Community members... Read more
‘The Notorious One,’ Conor McGregor, came out fast and furious at the UFC Saturday night, as he fought for the first time since October 2018. McGregor, 31, broke Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone’s nose with a flurry of shoulder strikes in the clinch. He then blocked a patented-Cerrone head kick before... Read more
Humber gathers to mourn ‘saddening’ Iran plane crash victims
EtobicokeHumberIGNITEInternationalNews Jan 16, 2020
The students in the K-building were so quiet, one could hear a pin drop. Many were praying or bowing their heads. A woman could be seen crying. Midday Thursday, Humber College’s Lakeshore campus hosted a moment of silence for victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crash, which... Read more
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed changes in the constitution that would allow him to extend his presidency power limits and chose a new prime minister after Dmitry Medvedev and the government resigned from duties. Putin picked a 53-year-old head of the tax service Mikhail Mishustin for the position... Read more
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