BETTER remuneration was what lured former Kingston port worker Anthony Francis to Fort McMurray, a city of vast deposits of oil sands in north-east Alberta — Canada’s largest oil-producing province. That was three years ago. Today, the 45-year-old heavy-duty mechanic will readily tell you that the...
One of the Islamic State’s top leaders in Iraq’s Anbar province was killed in a U.S. airstrike last week, the Pentagon said Monday.The “military emir” of Anbar, known as Abu Wahib, and three other Islamic State members were killed May 6 while traveling in a vehicle...
North Korea said it would strengthen its defensive nuclear weapons capability, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday, a decision adopted in defiance of U.N. resolutions at a rare congress of its ruling Workers' Party. The congress, which ended on Monday after four days,...
The day before Prince died, his team called an eminent opioid addiction specialist in California seeking help with “a grave medical emergency,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper reported. Dr. Howard Kornfeld sent his son on an urgent overnight flight to Prince’s Paisley Park estate in...
United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, has identified what he regarded as three priority areas in which the Obama administration would like the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean to grow and thrive. Addressing the Council of the Americas’ 46th Annual Washington Conference...