Five people in eastern Romania have been found dead after torrential rainstorms left scores of people stranded in flooded areas, emergency authorities said Saturday. Rescue services scrambled to save 95 people in the hard-hit eastern counties of Galati and Vaslui. The bodies of three elderly women and two men were found in the localities of…
Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid respects to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire, at a military funeral in a remote town near the Kenyan border. Military officers played a prominent role in the funeral because Cheptegei held the rank of sergeant in…
Ukraine made a new call Saturday on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia after a meeting between U.S. and British leaders a day earlier produced no visible shift in their policy on the use of long-range weapons. The renewed appeal came as Kyiv said Russia launched more drone and artillery attacks…
A military court in Congo handed down death sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt. The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including a Briton, Belgian and Canadian, have five days to appeal the verdict on charges that included attempted coup, terrorism…
Ongoing controversy over the documentary “Russians at War” has brought scrutiny to Ontario’s public broadcaster, which has said it will not air the film it helped fund. One media expert says TVO is getting “the worst of all worlds” by investing in a project that can no longer be shown or monetized. “TVO created a…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that Ukraine should be allowed to strike within Russian territory, as his American and British counterparts meet in Washington to discuss whether to lift restrictions on long-range weapons supplied to Kyiv. Ukraine has been pushing for months for permission to use the weapons, including U.S.-supplied ATACMS and British Storm…
The soccer coach of 12 boys who were famously trapped in a cave in northern Thailand in 2018 became stuck again this week, this time forced to spend a night perched on a rooftop during flash floods in the country. Ekkapol Chantawong told Agence France-Presse that Typhoon Yagi forced him, his family, his girlfriend and…
The Toronto International Film Festival said Thursday it is suspending upcoming screenings of the controversial documentary Russians At War due to “significant threats to festival operations and public safety.” The announcement came a day after TIFF stood by the film, which is helmed by a Russian-Canadian director and received Canadian public funding, amid growing backlash…
A silhouetted figure stands in stark contrast against the bright blue of planet Earth, his torso emerging from a space capsule hundreds of kilometres above the atmosphere. The man is Jared Isaacman, a tech billionaire who became the first civilian in history to perform a commercial spacewalk. Before today, the only people who could attempt…
The Toronto International Film Festival says screenings of a controversial documentary depicting Russian soldiers in Ukraine will go ahead as planned, despite Ontario’s public broadcaster pulling its support amid outcry from the Ukrainian community. A statement from the festival Wednesday defended the film, Russians at War, a day after a large protest was held outside its…
