Canadian politician denies misconduct allegations, staff resigns The leader of the main opposition party in Canada’s Ontario province denied allegations of sexual misconduct that broadcaster CTV News reported were made by two women, prompting several staff members to resign. “These allegations are false, categorically untrue – every one of them,” […]
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Beating back IS in Syria raises new challenges for US For the last few years, the United States could neatly sum its objective in Syria in a single, uncontroversial bullet point: fighting the Islamic State group. Now that the extremists have been squeezed from all but the last bits of […]
Save the Children office in Afghanistan hit by attack At least 11 people have been injured in an ongoing attack on the offices of international aid agency Save the Children in Afghanistan. An explosion took place outside the organisation’s compound in Jalalabad, authorities said. Gunmen then entered the building. Local […]
US-led coalition says 150 ISIS fighters killed in airstrike The US-led coalition fighting ISIS killed approximately 150 ISIS fighters in a Saturday airstrike, Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the coalition, told CNN Tuesday. The target of the strike was an “ISIS headquarters and command and control center,” Dillon said, […]
Mixed Messages From U.S. as Turkey Attacks Syrian Kurds The White House sent out a message aimed at mollifying Turkey’s president on Tuesday, suggesting that the United States was easing off its support for the Syrian Kurds. That message was quickly contradicted by the Pentagon, which said it would continue […]
S. Korean advance team goes to North for pre-Olympic events A team of South Korean officials travelled to North Korea on Tuesday to check logistics for joint events ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in the South, as the rivals exchanged rare visits to each other amid signs of warming […]
Avalanche and volcano hit Japan’s Kusatsu ski resort At least 14 people have been injured by an avalanche and volcanic eruption near a Japanese ski resort. The eruption sent rocks raining down over a kilometre-wide area near Kusatsu in central Gunma prefecture, say local media. Four people who were riding […]
As Turkey Attacks Kurds in Syria, U.S. Is on the Sideline When President Trump met with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the United Nations last September, he embraced him as a friend and declared, “We’re as close as we’ve ever been.” Five months later, Turkey is waging an all-out […]
More asylum-seekers to leave remote Australian camps for U.S. resettlement Another 58 asylum-seekers held in an Australian-run detention center on Papua New Guinea (PNG) will leave on Tuesday for resettlement in the United States under a controversial refugee swap deal, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters. The asylum-seekers […]
South Korea government rejects ‘Pyongyang Olympics’ criticism Seoul’s presidential Blue House rejected criticism on Tuesday that next month’s Winter Games had been hijacked by North Korea, saying the event will help defuse tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs. Some opposition politicians and conservative civic in South Korea have criticized […]
