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  © Provided by thecanadianpress.com TORONTO – The latest on the mass shooting in Toronto (all times local): 6:10 p.m. The family of the suspect in the deadly Toronto mass shooting says he suffered from severe mental health problems, but relatives “could never imagine that this would be his devastating and destructive end.” Faisal Hussain’s […]

King Ahmed Iman  left (Somalia) and King Wilson Peni,(South Africa)  Royalty have been showing up for this year’s Hargeisa International Book Fair in the self-declared state of Somaliland. The BBC’s Mary Harper snapped this shot of two kings attending the event, one of the largest celebrations of literature and the arts in East Africa: The monarch […]

  The French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived Monday morning in Tripoli coming from Tunisia with the intent to hold meetings with Libyan rivals who met in Paris on May 29. Le Drian said in a joint presser with his Libyan counterpart Mohammed Sayala that he told the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez […]

Migrants and refugees are evacuated from their camp by French CRS riot police at Daviais square in Nantes, western France, on July 23, 2018. Photo: AFP French police on Monday cleared some 450 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants from a park in the western city of Nantes where they had been camping for more than a […]

Danforth Ave. was closed to traffic and even local residents were prevented from returning home Sunday night, as police investigated a shooting rampage.  (RICHARD LAUTENS / TORONTO STAR) Danforth Ave. was closed to traffic and even local residents were prevented from returning home Sunday night, as police investigated a shooting rampage.  (RICHARD LAUTENS / TORONTO STAR) She heard shots. “I thought […]

The bus where the incident occurred. Photo: DPA Ten people were injured in an assault by a man wielding a knife on a bus in northern Germany. The 34-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday and appeared before a magistrate on Saturday. The packed bus was heading in the direction of Travemünde, a popular beach close […]

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran (stage-C) speaks at a meeting with the heads of Iran’s diplomatic missions in world countries, in Tehran, on July 22, 2018. (Photo by president.ir) President Hassan Rouhani of Iran says the United States should know that peace with Iran will be the mother of all peace while war with the […]

Eleven people were killed when a minibus taxi was set upon with automatic rifles in an ambush in central KZN on 22 July 2018. Image: SUPPLIED Eleven people were killed and four others wounded in a night-time massacre on the R74 near Colenso in central KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. It is understood that a minibus taxi carrying passengers […]

© Eitan Abramovich, AFP | French Finance and Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire offers an interview to AFP in Buenos Aires on July 21, 2018, in the framework of the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday the European Union could not consider negotiating […]

A view shows Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq oil facility in eastern Saudi Arabia © Reuters Even if the current OPEC/NOPEC oil production cut deal goes to pieces, Saudi Arabia and Russia will be willing to go it alone. The two largest oil producers in the agreement said that on Thursday ahead of the much-talked-about OPEC meeting […]