DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Dipu Chandra Das, a 27-year-old Hindu garment worker, was accused in December by several Muslim colleagues of making derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad. The accusations drew a violent mob to his workplace. He was beaten to death, his body hung from a tree and set on fire. Across Bangladesh, Hindus […]
HONG KONG (AP) — European shares were mixed Wednesday, while most benchmarks in Asia advanced despite a retreat on Wall Street on selling of technology stocks. The future for the S&P 500 fell 0.1%, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1%. In Europe, France’s CAC 40 gained 0.5% in early trading to […]
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings said Wednesday its subsidiary started arbitration proceedings against Panama after that country’s Supreme Court ruled a concession for the subsidiary to operate Panama Canal ports was unconstitutional. Hutchison said it strongly disagreed with last week’s ruling, and China warned Panama would pay “a heavy price” if […]
Canada’s famous prognosticating rodents are predicting an early spring. Wiarton Willie, in Bruce County, Ont., and Fred la Marmotte, the famous groundhog in Quebec’s Gaspesie region, reportedly did not see their shadows this morning, which is good news for people tired of wintry weather. According to legend, there will be six more weeks of winter […]
The latest Nor’Easter to blow through the region has caused some services to delay opening on Monday morning Schools HRCE – Bay View High Eastern Shore Consolidated, Marine Drive, Musquodoboit Rural High are closed. All other HRCE schools will be delayed in opening by two hours to allow additional time for cleanup. All CCRCE schools […]
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 19 Palestinians, most of them women and children, by midday Wednesday, according to hospital officials. Israel pledged to continue strikes, saying that it was responding to a militant attack on Israeli soldiers that seriously wounded one. Among the Palestinians killed were five […]
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks via video on Wednesday, Chinese state media said. There were no immediate details on their conversation. The virtual meeting came in the middle of a series of meetings between Xi and Western leaders who have sought to boost ties with China […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek coast guard patrol boats and a helicopter were searching for potential missing people off an eastern Aegean island Wednesday after an overnight collision between a patrol vessel and a speedboat carrying migrants that left at least 15 people dead. Twenty-four migrants, including 11 children, were injured and were hospitalized on […]
The last remaining nuclear arms pact between Russia and the United States is set to expire Thursday, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century. The termination of the New START Treaty would set the stage for what many fear could be an unconstrained nuclear […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the latest surge in militant attacks in southwestern Pakistan that has killed dozens of people, mostly civilians, as security forces on Wednesday pressed their operations in the insurgency-hit region. The authorities said scores of militants have been killed in recent days as Pakistani forces crack down […]