U.S. Attorney General William Barr publicly swiped at Donald Trump on Thursday, declaring that the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and open cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.” Barr made the comment during an interview with ABC News just days after his Justice Department overruled its own prosecutors — who…

“The children. Thousands of children under the trees.”   That’s the answer that came crackling back from Dr. Tammam Lodami on the phone from the northern Syrian town of al-Dana when asked for a description of conditions on the ground.   North of Idlib city and west of Aleppo, the town is caught between a two-pronged…

Ten women filed a civil class-action lawsuit on Thursday accusing one of Canada’s wealthiest businessmen and clothing manufacturers, Peter Nygard, of raping them at his seaside mansion in the Bahamas, and operating what they refer to as a “sex trafficking ring.” The women are seeking damages for the alleged rapes. Three of the women were…

More than 140,000 Syrians have been displaced in the past three days alone by violence in the country’s northwest, bringing the total of those uprooted in a Syrian government offensive against the last opposition stronghold to over 800,000, the United Nations said Thursday. The UN said at least 60 per cent of the more than 800,000 displaced since…

Senior members of the Swiss legislature are demanding a parliamentary investigation into a spying operation in which U.S. and German intelligence reportedly used a Swiss cryptography company as a front to eavesdrop on other countries. The government has appointed a former Supreme Court justice to look into Operation Rubicon, which for decades involved the U.S. Central…

The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics were supposed to be a celebration of recovery and a powerful symbol of how Japan has put a run of natural disasters and bad luck behind it. But it’s looking increasingly likely that the fallout from the coronavirus epidemic will spoil the party. While there is virtually zero chance the games…