JANUARY 15, 2019
People from lands near and far braved the cold weather to take a dip in the icy waters, reaching the makeshift township of Kumbh Nagari, touted to be the world's biggest temporary city, as early as 4 am
Hindu pilgrimage Kumbh Mela 2019
New Delhi — The biggest pilgrimage on the planet has kicked off in India.
From now until...
JANUARY 14, 2019
The Intermediate People’s Court in Dalian, China, where Robert Lloyd Schellenberg of Canada is to be retried on drug smuggling charges. - Reuters
BEIJING — China’s diplomatic clash with Canada escalated sharply on Monday, when a Chinese court sentenced a Canadian to death for drug smuggling at a one-day retrial ordered weeks after a Chinese executive’s arrest in...
JANUARY 14, 2019
Liquid gold is poured to form gold dore bars at Newmont Mining's Carlin gold mine operation near Elko, Nevada May 21, 2014. - REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Newmont Mining Corp. will buy rival Goldcorp Inc. in a deal valued at $10 billion, creating the world’s largest gold miner and cementing a return of M&A to the industry.
The transaction comes just...
JANUARY 14, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: A child makes a snow angel at the Washington Monument on January 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. - (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
The DC area was hit with 4-7 inches of snow accumulation with the potential of another 2-4 inches. President Donald Trump is holding off from a threatened national emergency declaration...
JANUARY 13, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Even as President Trump is consumed by his standoff with Democrats over the border and the government shutdown, a potentially larger battle looms for the White House.
On Sunday, Republicans, Democrats and the president seemed to be preparing for the prospect that the special counsel’s inquiry into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia could...
JANUARY 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the partial government shutdown slipped into the record books Saturday as the longest ever, members of Congress were out of town, no negotiations were scheduled and President Donald Trump tweeted into the void.
He did not tip his hand on whether he will move ahead with an emergency declaration that could break the impasse,...
JANUARY 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump, in response to reports that the FBI began an investigation of him last year to find out whether he had a clandestine agenda to help Russia, said Saturday that former FBI director James Comey and other "losers" at the bureau "tried to do a number on your President."
He called Comey a "total sleaze" and "crooked cop." The president...
JANUARY 12, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Australia 5 for 288 (Handscomb 73, Khawaja 59, S Marsh 54) v India beat India 254 for 9 (Rohit 133, Dhoni 51, Richardson 4-26) by 34 runs
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - They just needed a new kit. Despite a fine century from Rohit Sharma, Australia ripped up the form book with a 34-run victory in the...
JANUARY 11, 2019
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in June 2019, has been criticized over a carbon emissions levy, his promotion of multiculturalism and immigration - AFP
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appealed Thursday for fellow Canadians to speak to each other respectfully following death threats by "yellow vest" protestors.
Visiting western Canada to unofficially kick off his re-election campaign, Trudeau...
JANUARY 11, 2019
Federal air traffic controller union members protest the partial U.S. federal government shutdown in a rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington - Reuters/JONATHAN ERNST
A union that represents thousands of U.S. air traffic controllers filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Friday claiming its failure to pay the workers during an ongoing partial government shutdown could...
