TORONTO (Xinhua) A 18-year-old female university student and a 10-year-old girl were killed, and 13 others injured when a gunman opened fire in a busy Toronto street Sunday night. The suspected shooter, a 29-year-old Toronto man, also died. Toronto police said he used a handgun to shoot and and exchangedContinue Reading
MONTREAL: Fourteen people, including a young girl, were shot near downtown Toronto, police in Canada’s biggest city said on Sunday, with one person killed and the gunman also dead.The young girl was in a critical condition, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said. “We are looking at all possible motives… andContinue Reading
TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian boat carrying around 40 African migrants has been stranded off the country’s coast without aid for more than a week after authorities refused to let them disembark there, the Red Crescent said on Monday. Monji Slim, an official of the Tunisian Red Crescent, said theContinue Reading
N’DJAMENA, July 23 (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 18 farmers and kidnapped nine women in western Chad, authorities said, part of a wave of violence that has spread from neighbouring Nigeria across the region. The attackers came into the village of Mayerom in Lake Chad region after darkContinue Reading
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Diamond producer De Beers said on Monday it was relocating 200 elephants from its private reserve in South Africa to neighbouring Mozambique, part of wider efforts to restore wildlife populations ravaged by conflict there. The Anglo American unit said its 32,000-hectare )80,000-acre) Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve couldContinue Reading
LONDON, July 23 (Xinhua) — Three men have been arrested after a three-year-old boy was seriously injured in a targeted acid attack in Worcester, England, the police said Monday. West Mercia Police said three men, aged 22, 25 and 26 respectively, were arrested in London on suspicion of conspiracy toContinue Reading
KIGALI, July 23 (Xinhua) — Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, agreed here on Monday to further promote bilateral cooperation in a bid to bring more benefits to the Chinese people, the Rwandan people and the African people. The two leaders hailed the growth ofContinue Reading
ROME, July 23 (Xinhua) — Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said Monday that 1,200 migrants have reached Italy from Turkey by sea this year, in spite of a European Union (EU) deal signed in 2016 that was designed to stop the flow of asylum seekers along the so-called EasternContinue Reading
Old transcripts and audios of Donald Trump interviews with radio host Howard Stern recently surfaced online, sparking outrage. Talks between the current US president and Stern ranged from crude talk about celebrities to their sex lives. In a 1997 interview, the duo disrespected recently deceased Princess Diana with SternContinue Reading
