When Imran Khan was asked this month why he did not criticise China’s alleged mass detentions from its Uighur Muslim minority, Pakistan’s prime minister was uncharacteristically coy. The former cricketer said he did not know much about the situation in China’s neighbouring Xinjiang province, where Beijing is allegedly holding hundreds of thousands in brainwashing re-education…
CALGARY — The developer of a nearly empty new mall just north of Calgary says he’s confident it will become the bustling Asian-style bazaar it is meant to be despite having to delay its late-October grand opening until sometime next year. Only nine of 517 retail spaces in the mall have opened for business since…
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe decided to start a hunger strike today after Iranian interrogators tried to pressure her into becoming a spy for Iran, her husband has revealed. Richard Ratcliffe said his wife had been asked by Revolutionary Guard officers who visited her in prison on December 29 to pass on information about Department for International Development…
BRUSSELS — Donald Trump boasted Thursday of singlehandedly winning commitments from his fellow NATO leaders to meet and exceed a defence spending target of two per cent of GDP — even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke only of continuing with Canada’s existing military plan. At a news conference wrapping up the two-day NATO summit…
Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, said five European Union nations have stepped forward to help resolve the latest impasse involving migrants stuck at sea on a humanitarian ship. But he bemoaned the lack of a systematic EU way to deal with migrant rescues. Mr Conte said that the crisis over the Sea-Watch 3, which has…
A British man who was arrested in Somalia earlier this month after suspected Islamist inmates tried to cut his throat, Somali authorities have said. Anthony Thomas Cox, who had been working for a private security company in Mogadishu, suffered minor injuries after he was set upon by fellow prisoners said to be loyal to al…
VANCOUVER — Cannabis connoisseurs in Vancouver have been able to buy potent weed over the counter for years — but ironically, that could change when marijuana becomes legal. None of the long-standing pot shops in the city have received provincial licences to operate, with only two weeks left until legalization. Watch: Open-air marijuana pop-up gets…
LONDON — Thomas Markle spent a career in Hollywood, but nothing prepared him for this. The father of royal bride-to-be Meghan Markle has been quoted as saying he will not attend his daughter’s wedding to Prince Harry this week after suffering a reported heart attack amid the intense media interest around the nuptials. The retired…
A gay atheist has launched his own party in a bid to take on Poland’s conservative political establishment and curb the influence of the Catholic Church. Robert Biedron announced the name of his party, Wiosna (Spring), to a packed Warsaw conference hall on Sunday in what he hopes will be the first step in unseating Law and…
Hate to break it to you, Toronto: the rest of Canada thinks your tap water kind of sucks. Almost 38 per cent of Ontarians think Toronto tap water tastes great, a new poll conducted by Santevia Water Systems has found, but the rest of the country thinks that the water pouring from the taps in…