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Jail the only option to stop N.L. man from repeatedly violating his court orders: judge

A St. John’s judge denied bail to a man charged with breaching orders not to contact a woman he is accused of assaulting, saying jail is the only way to stop him from doing it again. “The accused will not leave the complainant alone,” wrote ...

Updated 34 minutes ago |3 min read

Paradise running low on salt, has to buy more

Updated 36 minutes ago |2 min read

The Madsen 921G XR front-end loader operator at the A. Harvey & Company Ltd. Marine Base on Water Street east in downtown St. John’s was a busy man on Thursday, January 4, 2024. In anticipation of today’s forecasted snowstorm with some 15-25 centimetres of snow expected along with blustery winds, contractors were lined-up awaiting to get their rigs topped off with road salt, including this operator, as the dump is loaded-up with his salt supply. -Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram

'Driving on the Uber platform allows you to fit your work around other responsibilities': Uber officially launches in province

Updated 38 minutes ago |5 min read

Gary Noftall is St. John's first Uber driver. Noftall picked up Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols of Team Gushue to bring them to Uber's official launch in Quidi Vidi Village on Tuesday, April 23. Cameron Kilfoy • The Telegram

After many petitions, N.L. government says it will amend Limitations Act

Updated 41 minutes ago |2 min read

PCs hammer Liberals for total cost of 2021 cyberattack

Updated 47 minutes ago |5 min read

N.L. government ministers call tent city a ‘campsite,’ ‘protest’

Updated 50 minutes ago |2 min read

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro attends an event at the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas, Venezuela, December 4, 2023.

Venezuela's Maduro says he is open to receiving UN rights envoy

Reuters |Updated 18 minutes ago |1 min read

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday he is willing to receive an envoy from the United Nations' human rights office, after his government asked staff to leave the South American country earlier this year. "I ...

A North Korean flag flutters at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, July 19, 2022.

North Korea officials visit Iran in a rare public trip

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean delegation led by the cabinet minister for international trade is visiting Iran, the North's official media said on Wednesday in a rare public report of an exchange between the two countries believed to have ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan Supreme Court on the 6th day of the hush money trial against him on April 23 2024. Curtis Means/Pool via REUTERS

Trump meets with Japan's former prime minister Aso

Nathan Layne |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso, a senior figure in the country's ruling party, met with Donald Trump on Tuesday, becoming the latest U.S. ally seeking to establish ties with the Republican presidential ...

A gun reform activists drags a body bag with the words “How Many more” down the steps of the Tennessee State Capitol building, following the House vote to adopt Senate Bill 1325 which would authorize teachers, principals, and school personnel to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., April 23, 2024.

Tennessee lawmakers pass bill allowing teachers to carry guns in schools

Brad Brooks |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Tennessee lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow the state's teachers to carry concealed handguns at school, as protesters yelled their opposition from the gallery. The bill was approved in a 68-28 vote ...

Bottles of milk are been processed at the South Mountain Creamery farm in Middletown, Maryland U.S., May 19, 2020.

US FDA says commercial milk safe despite bird flu virus presence

Reuters |Updated 9 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - The US Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that it had found bird flu virus particles in some samples of pasteurized milk, but said that commercial milk supply remains safe. The FDA said that because the milk is pasteurized, ...

The sun shines behind the United Nations Secretariat Building at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York City, New York, U.S., June 18, 2021.

US, Russia set for a showdown at UN over nuclear weapons in space

Joey Roulette, Michelle Nichols |Updated 2 hours ago |3 min read

By Michelle Nichols and Joey Roulette UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia are set to face off over nuclear weapons in space on Wednesday at the United Nations Security Council, which is due to vote on a U.S.-drafted ...

Members of the Progressive Conservative front bench listen as Lt.-Gov. Antoinette Perry closes out the spring sitting of the P.E.I. legislature. – Stu Neatby

P.E.I.'s spring sitting of the legislature has closed. Here are three takeaways.

Stu Neatby · Journalist |Updated 2 hours ago |7 min read

The 27 members of P.E.I.’s legislature headed back to their districts for the summer after a 31-day sitting closed on April 23. The spring sitting saw the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Dennis King pass another record-high budget, ...

Trans Mountain oil shippers raise concerns about risk of delay to full service

Nia Williams |Updated 38 minutes ago |3 min read

By Nia Williams (Reuters) -Some shippers on Canada's Trans Mountain expansion project are raising concerns that the long-delayed oil pipeline will not be fully in service by its projected start date of May 1, according to a letter to the Canada ...

European?Union?flags fly outside the?European?Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2023.REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo

Rights concerns, costs undermine Turkey-EU migrant deal, say auditors

Nette Noestlinger |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

By Nette Noestlinger BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's poor human rights record and economic factors are undermining the effectiveness of the European Union's migration deal with Ankara, EU auditors said on Wednesday. Under the 2016 deal, Ankara ...

Children hold a banner as Argentine university students, unions, and social groups march to protest against President Javier Milei's "chainsaw" cuts on public education, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 23, 2024.

Argentina's Milei faces biggest protest yet as students march over budget cuts

Nicolás Misculin |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President ...