DAR ES SALAAM – An international court trying suspects of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has sentenced a 75-year-old militia leader to 25 years for his involvement in the killing of up to 5,000 Tutsis, the court said on Wednesday. Yusuf Munyakazi becomes the oldest person ever to be sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [...]
Canada’s apology to the Chinese community for the head tax from 1885 to 1923 was not enough, say descendants of those who paid the tax. Ottawa said sorry to the Chinese community four years ago and gave $20,000 to those who had paid the head tax or to their surviving spouse. But members of the [...]
SAN DIEGO – An immigration judge tentatively granted asylum Wednesday to the son of a Hamas founder who turned his back on his father’s terrorist group and became a spy for Israel. The ruling came after the federal government abruptly dropped concerns that Mosab Hassan Yousef was a terrorist threat. Yousef, 32, was greeted by [...]
HONG KONG – Tens of thousands in Hong Kong are expected to hit the city’s sweltering streets Thursday for an annual democracy rally marking the 13th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China. Organisers are expecting about 50,000 protesters to turn out for the July 1 march, down from 70,000 last year, underscoring [...]
SYDNEY – Former Australian prime minister John Howard said Wednesday he had not been told why his bid to lead world cricket had been thrown out, saying his rejection set a “bad precedent” if it was because of his politics. Howard’s ambition to head the International Cricket Council (ICC) was scuppered after a revolt by [...]
Rough seas generated by Hurricane Alex pushed more oil from the massive spill onto Gulf Coast beaches Wednesday as cleanup vessels were sidelined by the faraway storm’s ripple effects. The hurricane was churning coastal waters across the oil-affected region on the Gulf of Mexico. Six-foot waves and 25 mph winds were forecast through Thursday just [...]
Two 14-year-old boys have been rushed to hospital after they were pulled from a swimming pool in the city’s northeast end. They were swimming in the indoor pool at 30 Thunder Grove, an apartment complex near McCowan Street and Finch Avenue East. Police received a call for a drowning just after 4 p.m. Fire and [...]
JERUSALEM – An Israeli Cabinet minister met secretly in Europe with Turkey’s foreign minister on Wednesday in an attempt to improve relations rapidly deteriorating over the recent bloodshed on a Gaza-bound flotilla, Israeli government officials said. Industry Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer met Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in an unspecified location in Europe, the officials said, [...]
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