Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Beijing loyalist John Lee elected as Hong Kong's next leader
HONG KONG (AP) - John Lee was elected as Hong Kong’s next leader Sunday by an election committee comprised of nearly 1,500 largely pro-Beijing members. Lee received 1,416 votes in the chief exec...
May 07, 2022
Last women and children evacuated from Ukrainian steel mill
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces kept up their barrage of southern Ukraine, hitting the major Black Sea port of Odesa with cruise missiles and bombarding the steelworks up the coast in Mari...
May 07, 2022
Paddlers locate statue of giant hand that was carried away by swollen river
WINNIPEG - A statue of a hand that disappeared after it washed off the bank of a swollen river in Winnipeg earlier this week has been rescued, thanks to a group of canoeists and kayakers who set out S...
May 07, 2022
Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - It was dusk on April 14 when Francisco Kuruaya heard a boat approaching along the river near his village in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. He assumed it was the regular delivery boa...
May 07, 2022
RCMP seek witnesses in Williams Lake homicide
WILLIAMS LAKE - The Williams Lake RCMP is searching for people who may have witnessed an alleged homicide. Just after 11 p.m. Thursday (May 5), RCMP says they received a report of a man suffering from...
May 07, 2022
B.C. RCMP seek witnesses, video footage after stabbing homicide in Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - RCMP are looking for witnesses and seeking more information after a fatal stabbing in Williams Lake, B.C., earlier this week. They say police responded to a report of a man suffe...
May 07, 2022
Retired general Jonathan Vance loses military honour at his own request
OTTAWA - Retired gen. Jonathan Vance, Canada’s former chief of the defence staff, has terminated his appointment to a major Canadian military honour. A notice posted in the Canada Gazette, the f...
May 07, 2022
Air Canada flight makes emergency landing in Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE - An Air Canada Jazz flight made a successful emergency landing at the Prince George Airport Friday (May 6) evening. In a news release, the Prince George Airport Authority (YXS) says the...
May 07, 2022
Forced to relocate to a flood plain: Manitoba First Nation says protection is overdue
WINNIPEG - The marshy delta of Manitoba’s Fisher River was not the original home of Peguis First Nation. But having been relocated there more than a century ago after an illegal land transfer, a...
May 07, 2022
Afghanistan's Taliban order women to wear burqa in public
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public, a sharp hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights a...
May 07, 2022