MARTIGNY, Switzerland (AP) -- Swiss prosecutors requested on Friday that the male bar manager of Le Constellation, in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana, be placed in pre-trial detention over the fatal fire in which 40 people died. Read More

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Environmental experts are warning that the U.S. push to revamp and boost Venezuela's vast oil reserves could worsen decades of ecological damage and increase planet-warming pollution in a country already struggling with the legacy of a long-declining petroleum industry. Read More

The federal agent who shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. Read More

US President Donald Trump said a second wave of attacks on Venezuela has been canceled, citing improved cooperation from the country after some political prisoners were released. Read More

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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday insisted that the Islamic republic would "not back down" in the face of protests after the biggest rallies yet in an almost two week movement sparked by anger over the rising cost of living. Read More

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said a trade deal with India did not materialize last year because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call President Donald Trump. Read More

NASA will conduct a medical evacuation in the coming days of an astronaut suffering an undisclosed ailment aboard the International Space Station, agency officials said. Read More

Tear gas burning his eyes, his voice hoarse from shouting anti-government slogans as cars honked around him, Majid joined crowds of Iranians taking to the streets in defiance of a crackdown on a swelling protest movement. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is A Kitchen in Italy by Mimi Thorisson. Read More

Russia carried out a strike near Ukraine’s western border with an intermediate-range ballistic missile known as Oreshnik, sending a threatening signal to Kyiv’s allies amid a widespread air attack that targeted energy infrastructure and damaged apartment buildings. Read More

Welcome to the era of the "Donroe Doctrine" — a reinterpretation of a 19th-century foreign policy used to justify the United States' attack on Venezuela and assert dominance in the Western Hemisphere, encompassing North and South America and the surrounding waters. On Jan. 5, the U.S. Department of State posted to X, "This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened." A photo of U.S. President Donald Trump with a text overlay — "THIS IS OUR HEMPISPHERE" — was attached. Read More

A Toronto man found not criminally responsible for killing his own father with a hammer a decade back has been approved for 14 days of international travel even though he "continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public." Read More

It appears Iranians have had enough of the terrorist regime that rules their lives. After nearly two consecutive weeks of protests, and the murder of over 30 people by the Mullah’s henchmen, videos circulating widely on X show that Iranians are still marching in the streets, more intent and with vigour. By the time this article finds its way to print, the Ayatollah may be in Moscow having Turkish coffee with Bashar Assad. Read More

If this past year's generational shift in the popular Canadian attitude to immigration can be pinpointed in hindsight on the calendar, it was somewhere around the beginning of November, when Canada's population peaked and began to decline. Read More

In 2013, Toronto lawyer Avvy Yao-Yao Go described herself as a “loudmouth activist for politicians to contend with.” She was an advocate of chain migration, a former member of the Ontario law society’s equity committee, a vocal critic of journalists and politicians, and once, she even tried to force the government to pay reparations to descendants of Chinese-Canadians impacted by the head tax (after losing one appeal in this process, her organization accused an appeal judge of racism; the complaint was tossed out). Read More

Minnesota is all over the news this week, but for all of the wrong reasons. Yesterday, 37 year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE agents during a round-up of illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the North Star State is at the centre of a massive billion-dollar social services fraud centered around its large Somali immigrant community. And this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced that he is ending his bid for a third term as the fallout from the fraud scandal reaches to the highest levels of state politics. Read More

David Eby admits drug decriminalization in his province was “wrong” but the B.C. premier just can’t bring himself to outright kill the deadly social experiment. Read More

As America levies consequences on the United Kingdom for its free speech transgressions, Canada must see this as a cautionary tale. Read More

OTTAWA — A new poll shows that tensions with Ottawa are declining in all four western provinces, with perceptions of the federal government improving especially rapidly in Alberta. Read More

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U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview published Thursday that his "own morality" was the only constraint on his power to order military actions around the world. Read More

Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence for prostitution-related crimes, has asked Donald Trump for a pardon, but the U.S. president said he does not plan to grant clemency to the hip-hop star. Read More

Russia on Thursday slammed a plan for European peacekeepers to be deployed to Ukraine as "dangerous" and dubbed Kyiv and its allies an "axis of war," dousing hopes the plan could be a step towards ending the almost four-year-war. Read More