Police in Halifax are asking for help finding the driver involved in a hit and run in Bedford last month. According to HRP, a youth was hit by a driver in the area of Lodge Drive and Bedford Highway on the night of Jan. 28. Upon arrival, officers found a youth lying on the ground […]
The province’s police watchdog said it has reasonable and probable ground to believe that an RCMP officer committed criminal offences in Sydney, N.S. The Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) charged Constable Sara Bennett with breaking and entering and mischief in connection to incidents with a man known to her. “The RCMP takes all allegations of […]
WINNIPEG — Exchange Income Corp. has entered into an agreement to buy Canadian North. The northern airline is set to be purchased for $205 million. Canadian North provides passenger and cargo service to 24 remote Canadian Arctic communities in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories through Ottawa and Edmonton, as well as dedicated charters in northern […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nurses at Providence’s eight Oregon hospitals approved new contracts on Monday after over six weeks of strike, ending what the state nurses union has described as the largest health care strike in state history. Providence and hospital nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association union reached the tentative agreement last week, […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s new Islamist rulers kicked off a long-awaited national dialogue conference on Tuesday as a “rare historical opportunity” to rebuild the country after fall of former President Bashar Assad and nearly 14 years of civil war. Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, […]
A young American woman on a European trip was taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris, killing the baby, authorities said Tuesday. The baby was reportedly thrown from a second-floor window of a hotel on Monday morning, according to the Paris prosecutor. Emergency responders rushed the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a Chinese journalist accused of espionage called for his father’s release from a seven-year prison sentence in the high-profile case that signaled Beijing’s tighten grip on journalism. Dong Yuyu, then a senior editor at a Communist Party-run newspaper that was increasingly out of step with the party’s hardening line, […]
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis continued his treatment for pneumonia Tuesday as the Vatican set in motion a nightly marathon of prayers from “his house” and allies cheered him on from afar in hopes that the 88-year-old would recover. The Vatican’s typically brief morning update said: “The pope slept well, all night.” On Monday evening, […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Russia and Indonesia took steps on Tuesday to strengthen their defense ties with a meeting between a top Russian security official and Indonesia’s defense minister in the capital of Jakarta as Moscow’s war on Ukraine entered its fourth year. Ahead of the visit by Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Russian Federation […]
Aux Cayes FinTech Co. Ltd, the operator behind the cryptocurrency exchange OKX, has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business in violation of U.S. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws, agreeing to pay over $500 million in fines and forfeitures. Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Aux Cayes will pay $84 million […]