Comment on this story Comment Toronto police charged eight teenage girls with murder after a 59-year-old man was killed in a stabbing in the city’s downtown early Sunday, an assault described by officials as a “swarming.” The victim, whose identity is yet to be disclosed, died in a hospital shortly after suffering “what were described…
Comment on this story Comment A somewhat subjective rating of the day’s weather, on a scale of 0 to 10. 6/10: Too high, you say, for sunny but chilly 40s? Just you wait for what’s to come. Today: Mostly sunny and cold, light winds. Highs: Low to mid-40s. Tonight: Increasing clouds, wintry mix late? Lows:…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three days after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, walked into a forest near his home and began to dig. He didn’t stop until he had carved out a shallow pit, big enough for a man like him. It was his…
CNN — Many Rohingya are feared dead at sea more than three weeks after their boat became stranded off the Indian coast, where at least 160 people remain aboard on the brink of starvation, family members and the United Nations’ refugee agency said. Mohammed Rezuwan Khan, whose sister and 5-year-old niece are on the vessel,…
Queue of hearses outside Beijing crematorium China reports no new deaths; some criticise its accounting Beijing faces surge in severe COVID in next two weeks – expert BEIJING, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking…
Thailand’s navy has discovered the bodies of six marines after a small warship sank in the Gulf of Thailand. One marine was rescued alive on Monday as the military mobilised helicopters, warships and unmanned drones off its central coast. Twenty-three people remained unaccounted for after the HTMS Sukhothai was knocked over by four-metre waves and…
Twitter helped promote US military’s activities in the Middle East, according to an investigation based on company files. Twitter worked with the Pentagon to amplify propaganda about the United States military’s activities in the Middle East, allowing fake accounts to push pro-US narratives despite pledging to shut down covert state-run influence campaigns, according to an…
The Taliban’s de facto authorities on Tuesday banned women and girls from attending universities and from getting higher education in Afghanistan, according to the letter released by the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education. Tuesday’s order, which is effectively immediately, completed all the restrictions the Taliban imposed on Afghan woman’s life in the 1990s, taking Afghanistan…
Comment on this story Comment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday plans to appear in Washington to meet with President Biden and visit Capitol Hill, according to people with knowledge of the plan — a trip that will mark Zelensky’s first public international appearance since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. During the visit, Biden will…
Tonight will be quiet and clear, but chilly. Low temperatures fall to around 10 degrees lakeside and near zero inland. Clouds thicken up tomorrow, but any snow should hold off until tomorrow night. We are still tracking a big winter storm expected to affect the entire Great Lakes Region. Snow spreads across the state Wednesday…
