‘Good friends do exist’: London attack victims remembered at sentencing hearing
LONDON, Ont. — A father revered by relatives for his seemingly endless generosity; a devoted mother who persevered through obstacles; a grandmother who painted cartoon characters for her grandchildren and a teenage girl who a friend described as a “giver of hope.”
They were the victims of the deadly attack against four members of a Muslim family perpetrated by a self-proclaimed white nationalist.
Nathaniel Veltman’s killings on June 6, 2021 in London, Ont., have prompted calls for Canada to confront Islamophobia
Canadian director of Mickey Mouse horror film: ‘We kind of shook the world’
Here’s Mickey!
A Canadian horror director is riding a wave of viral buzz for turning Disney’s most famous character into a gruesome slasher flick.
The trailer for “Mickey’s Mouse Trap” was released on Jan. 1, the same day the earliest iteration of the beloved animated rodent entered the public domain, and it’s been making headlines.
“We kind of shook the world,” says Toronto-based filmmaker Jamie Bailey, 46, who has been fielding interview requests from the likes
Police probe UK Post Office for accusing over 700 employees of theft. The culprit was an IT glitch
LONDON (AP) — U.K. police have opened a fraud investigation into Britain’s Post Office over a miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of postmasters of stealing money when a faulty computer system was to blame.
The Metropolitan Police force said late Friday that it is investigating “potential fraud offences arising out of these prosecutions,” relating to money the Post Office received “as a result of prosecutions or civil actions” against accused postal workers.
Police also are investigating potential offenses of perjury and perverting the course of
A timeline of key moments leading to Japan planes colliding. Human error is seen as a possible cause
It only took 18 minutes to evacuate the 379 passengers of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after their plane burst into flames just after touchdown at Tokyo’s Haneda airport Tuesday evening. A smaller coast guard Bombardier Dash-8 aircraft, preparing to take off to deliver urgent aid to quake-hit central Japan, was using the same runway when the two collided. The captain of the coast guard craft escaped with burns but his five crew members died.
The Associated Press collected accounts from officials and transcripts of
Death toll rises to 5 in hospital fire in northern Germany
BERLIN (AP) — The death toll in a fire that broke out in a hospital in Germany this week has risen to five, with all of the victims patients, as investigators sought to understand the cause of the blaze.
late Thursday at the hospital in Uelzen, southeast of Hamburg. Emergency workers arrived to flames and calls for help. They evacuated several people, and were able to stop the fire from spreading any further, according to the dpa news agency, which cited police.
Firefighters and police, some using
Thousands of mourners in Islamabad attend funeral for Pakistani cleric gunned down in broad daylight
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of mourners attended a funeral Saturday for a Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric gunned down in broad daylight on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, police and a spokesman for the cleric’s organization said.
The funeral of Masoodur Rehman Usmani was held a day after unidentified gunmen shot and killed him and wounded his driver in the neighborhood of Ghauri Town, according to a statement from Islamabad police.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which is a rare occurrence in this part of Pakistan. Police
South Korea says the North has again fired artillery shells near their sea border
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea conducted a new round of artillery drills near the disputed sea boundary with South Korea on Saturday, officials in Seoul said, prompted South Korea to respond with its own firing drills in the same area.
The North’s back-to-back firing exercises come after repeatedly called for stronger war readiness to cope with what he called deepening confrontation led by the U.S.
Experts say North Korea is likely to continue its provocative run of weapons tests to boost its leverage
Pope Francis warns against ideological splits in the Church, says focus on the poor, not ‘theory’
Amid resistance to some Vatican policy by more conservative factions of the Catholic church, Pope Francis on Saturday cautioned the faithful against fracturing into groups “based on our own ideas.”
He issued the call to abandon “ecclesiastical ideologies” in his homily in St. Peter’s Basilica during Epiphany Day Mass, the last major Christmas season holiday.
Francis also warned against “basking in some elegant religious theory” instead of finding God in the faces of the poor.
Last month, for priests to bless couples outside of marriage
N.B. wrongful convictions: A story of undisclosed evidence, recanting witnesses
The story behind two New Brunswick men’s wrongful convictions for murder contains classic elements of how things can go terribly wrong in Canada’s justice system, say the lawyers who fought to prove their innocence.
A written submission presented to the court by Innocence Canada lawyers on Thursday argues that “police tunnel vision, the non-disclosure of important evidence, recantations by the two key Crown witnesses,” as well as a disregard for the men’s strong alibis, were key factors in Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie’
Blinken opens latest urgent Mideast tour in Turkey as fears grow that Gaza war may engulf region
CHANIA, Greece (AP) — said Saturday that Turkey is committed to playing “a positive, productive” role for postwar Gaza and prepared to use its influence in the region to prevent the from broadening even more.
The by America’s top diplomat opened with talks in Turkey and Greece before shifting to the region for “not necessarily easy conversations” with allies and partners about what they are willing to do “to build durable peace and security.”
Blinken’s fourth visit in three months comes as developments in