Russia clashes with US and Ukraine supporters, ruling out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister clashed with the United States and Ukraine’s supporters at a U.N. meeting Monday where Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West, and China warned that further global chaos could impact the slowing global economy.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, claimed that Ukrainian forces have been “a complete failure” on the battlefield and are “incapable” of defeating or .
He told the U.N. Security Council that Moscow
Tourists, workers, students stranded by Metro Vancouver bus strike
Tourists Jorge Correa and Roger Leyton wanted to go to Vancouver Island on Monday, but with no bus to get them to the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, they had to make other plans.
“We have to leave tonight so this is our last day here,” said Correa, who lives in Chicago, while Leyton was visiting Vancouver from Mexico. “We couldn’t go (to Vancouver Island) so we are upset about that.”
They were among the thousands of people affected by a 48-hour strike
Mary Robinson appointed as senator for Prince Edward Island
OTTAWA — Mary Robinson has been appointed as an independent senator in P.E.I.
Robinson is the vice-president of the World Farmers’ Organisation and is a managing partner of the Robinson Group of Companies.
She was also the first woman to be named president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Robinson will be a strong voice for Atlantic Canadians in the Upper Chamber.
She joins three other senators from the province: Percy Downe, Brian Francis and Jane MacAdam.
Robinson is the 7
Man charged with killing his wife in 1991 in Virginia brought back to US to face charges
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A man who fled the country after he was charged with the slaying of his wife more than 30 years ago in northern Virginia has been returned to the U.S. to face murder charges, police said Monday.
At a press conference Monday, Fairfax County Police officers said that Jose Lazaro Cruz was charged with the fatal stabbing of his wife, Ana Jurado, 24, in 1991 in West Falls Church.
But police said Lazaro Cruz, who was
Toronto high school in lockdown after alleged machete attack: police
A male youth was injured after being attacked by a suspect allegedly armed with a machete, Toronto police said.
Authorities were called to the Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue West area in North York at 3:30 p.m. on Monday for reports of a person with a knife, believed to be a machete.
Police said one victim, described as a youth, was rushed to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Initially, police tweeted that there was a second victim, but they have not
Luigi Riva, all-time leading scorer for Italy men’s national team, dies at 79
CAGLIARI, Sardinia (AP) — Gigi Riva, the all-time leading goalscorer for Italy men’s national team who was known as the “Rombo di Tuono” (Rumble of Thunder), has died. He was 79.
The Italian soccer federation (FIGC) as tributes started flooding in for the player, who earned his nickname because of the potency of his shot with 35 goals in 42 appearances for Italy.
“I’m shaken and profoundly saddened, Italian soccer is grieving because a
Norman Jewison, acclaimed director of ‘In the Heat of the Night’ and ‘Moonstruck,’ dead at 97
At 94, June Squibb is a leading lady at last in the Sundance breakout ‘Thelma’
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — June Squibb is perhaps the busiest 94-year-old in Hollywood. This year alone she’ll voice a role in “Inside Out 2,” head to New York to star in directorial debut and film a television series that she can’t quite talk about just yet.
And for the first time in her rich and varied career which has brought her from the stage to , she is the lead of a film, “Thelma.” It’s a
Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison dies at 97
Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to social dramas such as the Oscar-winning “In the Heat of the Night,” has died at age 97.
Jewison, a three-time Oscar nominee who in 1999 received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, died “peacefully” Saturday, according to publicist Jeff Sanderson. Additional details were not immediately available.
Throughout his long career, Jewison combined light entertainment with topical
Winters Hotel fire: B.C. inquest told of chained door, ‘no way out’ from deadly blaze
BURNABY, B.C. — A coroner’s inquest has been told that a Vancouver rooming house where a fire killed two people in 2022 had a chained door, as relatives testified about the devastating impact of the blaze.
The inquest into the deaths of Mary Ann Garlow and Dennis Guay began Monday with family members describing their loss in the fire that gutted the Winters Hotel in Vancouver.
Garlow’s niece, Misty Fredericks, told the inquest jury that her aunt’s son John lived in the