Toronto–Toronto’s former mayor could soon be back at work at city hall – if only on a part-time basis to start. Rob Ford’s medical team has cleared the councillor to return to work for one to two days a week, according to a release issued Thursday night. According to theRead More

OTTAWA — Newly released memos show Canada’s spy agency revealed its interest in people to foreign partners in two cases after receiving assurances the individuals would not be tortured — a practice human rights advocates say shirks the law and puts vulnerable detainees at risk. In one case, the CanadianRead More

TORONTO — Fraud and reduced public confidence in the electoral system could result if voter information cards are used as valid ID at the polls, lawyers for the federal government argued in court Friday. The government is fighting an injunction request to suspend a key identification provision in its FairRead More

Toronto —Toronto Pearson International Airport is seeing a spike in cancelled and delayed flights today due to a labour dispute between its airlines and their fueling company. Only 17 of the 47 employees who refuel planes at the airport and were scheduled to work this morning showed up, resulting inRead More

VIENNA: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier raised doubts Thursday whether major powers and Iran had enough ‘will and courage’ to seal an elusive deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme. ‘It is clear that we are not there yet,’ Steinmeier told reporters, adding ‘whether everyone’s will and courage will be enoughRead More

BEIJING: China on Thursday welcomed the re-establishment of formal ties between the US and Cuba, despite the move representing a reconciliation between Beijing’s longstanding Communist ally and its greatest diplomatic rival. Washington and Havana on Wednesday agreed a historic deal to re-establish full diplomatic relations, severed 54 years ago inRead More

PARIS: He lost his job over a rape allegation and had the sordid details of his sex life laid bare in a prostitution trial, but that is not enough to turn French voters against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A new poll published Thursday says the disgraced former finance minister is the secondRead More

MANILA: At least 36 people were killed after a passenger ferry with close to 200 people on board capsized in rough waters in the central Philippines today, officials said. The Kim Nirvana was heading from the central city of Ormoc to the island of Camotes when it capsized. Rescue boatsRead More

NEW DELHI: Responding to questions on a potentially major security risk involved in an Air India flight being delayed to accommodate his colleague Kiren Rijiju, Union Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju today admitted he still carries a matchbox on flights even though it is not allowed. “I am a smoker,Read More

PATNA: Janata Dal (U) legislator Anant Singh was today remanded to judicial custody by a district court in a seven-year-old murder case. Chief Judicial Magistrate of Patna, Bharat Singh, sent the MLA from Mokama to custody till July 15 in the case relating to the murder of one Sanjay SinghRead More