Macron’s party lost majority with 245 seats (289 needed for majority) Photo : REUTERS French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday lost his parliamentary majority after major election gains by a newly formed left-wing alliance and the far right, in a stunning blow to his plans for...
Continue reading...June 19, 2022
Colombia Presidential Elections: Gustavo Petro elected nation’s first left-wing president
Petro had 700,000 more votes than Hernandez Photo : AFP Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of crisis-wracked Colombia on Sunday after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election. With more than 99.5 percent of votes counted,...
Continue reading...Police investigating case of woman set on fire on TTC bus as suspected hate crime; man charged
Toronto police are now investigating an attack that saw a woman set on fire on a TTC bus as a suspected hate crime and say a man has been charged in connection with the incident. It happened on Friday just before 12:30 p.m. at Kipling Station....
Continue reading...Man charged after woman set on fire on TTC bus; police investigating it as suspected hate crime
A 33-year-old man has been charged after allegedly setting a woman on fire on a TTC bus on Friday, which Toronto police are now investigating as a suspected hate crime. Police said the incident happened just before 12:30 p.m. at Kipling Station. A man allegedly poured...
Continue reading...Driver sought after woman seriously injured in Mississauga hit-and-run
Peel police are looking for the driver of a minivan who fled after hitting a female pedestrian in Mississauga early Saturday morning. The collision happened on Lakeshore Road East, east of Cawthra Road, around 1:30 a.m. Police said a 38-year-old woman was running in the curb...
Continue reading...Ex-rebel holds slim lead in Colombia’s presidential runoff
BOGOTA, Colombia — Leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro held a slim lead in Colombia’s presidential runoff election Sunday over a real estate millionaire, and was on the cusp of ushering in a new era of politics in the South American country. Petro, a senator making his third...
Continue reading...Iowa doors swing open for Republicans eyeing White House run
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The polls were closed in Iowa for less than 48 hours when South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott was shaking hands and posing for pictures with eastern Iowa Republicans at a Cedar Rapids country club last week. Scott, one of the many Republicans testing...
Continue reading...More than 200 killed in Ethiopia ethnic attack, witnesses say
NAIROBI, Kenya — Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 people, mostly ethnic Amhara, have been killed in an attack in the country’s Oromia region and are blaming a rebel group, which denies it. It is one of the deadliest such attacks in recent memory...
Continue reading...Zelensky Father’s Day post spotlights family ties amid war
KYIV, Ukraine — One photograph shows a kneeling soldier kissing a child inside a subway station, where Ukrainian families shelter from Russian airstrikes. In another, an infant and a woman who appears on the brink of tears look out from a departing train car as a man...
Continue reading...Inflation taking a bite out of new infrastructure projects
The price of a foot of water pipe in Tucson: up 19%. The cost of a ton of asphalt in a small Massachusetts town: up 37%. The estimate to build a new airport terminal in Des Moines: 69% higher, with a several-year delay. Inflation is taking...
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