World/Local News

THE first national and provincial elections in Burma in 20 years began slowly, blighted by accusations of fraud and electoral unfairness. With armed police patrolling the streets and businesses closed for the weekend in cities […] […]

A NEPALESE pilot who performed the highest helicopter mountain rescue in history is missing after crashing near Mount Everest overnight. Sabin Basnyat and an engineer were attempting to rescue two climbers from Mount Amadablam, a […] […]

GERMAN police scuffled with protesters as tens of thousands of people gathered in Dannenberg, vowing to block a nuclear waste convoy arriving from France. The heavily guarded train carrying a cargo that activists say is […] […]

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia—Just days before President Barack Obama’s long-awaited visit to Indonesia, international carriers canceled flights to the capital over concerns about a volcano spewing ash hundreds of miles away. Malaysia was preparing to airlift […] […]

JERUSALEM—Israel will present to the U.N. a plan to withdraw from the northern sector of a disputed Lebanese border village that it has occupied since its 2006 war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas, an Israeli official […] […]

LONDON—A union leader says a two-day strike by BBC reporters over pension changes has caused widespread disruption to the BBC’s programs. National Union of Journalists chief Jeremy Dear said Saturday the 48-hour walkout, which began […] […]

MOSCOW—A reporter for a major Russian newspaper was left a coma Saturday after two men smashed his head, legs and fingers in an attack that prosecutors believe may be linked to his work. Prosecutors said […] […]

Can now impose sentences without adhering to minimum penalty JAMAICA – JUDGES and resident magistrates now have discretionary powers to impose sentences without adhering to the prescribed minimum penalty set out in the Criminal Justice […] […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hurricane Tomas flooded camps of earthquake victims, turning some into squalid islands yesterday as it battered Haiti’s rural western tip, while largely sparing the vast homeless encampments in the shattered capital. […] […]

Drunk driver Hafeez Mohamed was pinned under two officers, face down on the ground when Durham Region Constable Prasanth Tella slammed a fist into his head, neck and shoulder at least seven times. Within hours […] […]