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Registered occupational therapist Chelsea Surette (left) and registered physiotherapist Maria Wamback are co-owners of the newly opened Acadian Shores Health Centre. TINA COMEAU

'Community helped make this happen': Acadian Shores Health Centre looking to give back through its services

A new health centre in Yarmouth is feeling its community roots. Not only does it feel like it was helped along by the community in starting up and offering the services it does, but it also hopes to become involved in the community. “We are very ...

Updated Mar. 26, 2024 |6 min read

Tories pushing Antigonish consolidation through with amendments

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

Housing Minister John Lohr announces a five-year housing plan at One Government Place in Halifax on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. - Francis Campbell

Two people charged with drug and weapons offences in Stellarton, N.S.

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

RCMP have laid a third charge in connection to the homicide of Natacha Leroy. CONTRIBUTED

Housing project given provincial funding but denied by St. John's council because land cannot be currently developed

Updated 21 minutes ago |4 min read

'I'm alive': St. John's woman felt like she was ripped from another world when she woke up from 18-hour invasive brain surgery

Updated 35 minutes ago |12 min read

Paradise home destroyed by fire late Wednesday night but family escapes uninjured

Updated 5 hours ago |6 min read

Wristbands, key chains and badges featuring India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and masks of the party president Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are on display inside a BJP office ahead of general election in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, April 3, 2019.

From helicopters to ads, India's ruling party snaps up bulk of election props

Shivangi Acharya, Tanvi Mehta |Updated 6 minutes ago |3 min read

By Shivangi Acharya and Tanvi Mehta NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Campaigning is gathering pace in India's general elections, the world's largest with nearly a billion eligible voters, as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party races ahead of its opponents in ...

Election staff check the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) at a polling station, ahead of the first phase of the election, in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, April 18, 2024.

India's election officials climb hills, ford rivers to reach voters

Adnan Abidi, Shivam Patel |Updated 6 minutes ago |2 min read

By Adnan Abidi and Shivam Patel NONGRIAT, India (Reuters) -India was preparing on Thursday for the world's largest general election, as polling officers clambered up hills, travelled deep into areas riven by violent insurgencies and crossed rivers to ...

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2023.

Russia accuses Ukraine of shelling medical facilities and of killing medical staff

Reuters |Updated 6 minutes ago |1 min read

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused Ukrainian forces of repeatedly shelling medical facilities in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine with Western weapons on Thursday and said the West and the World Health Organization (WHO) had turned a blind eye ...

Jelka Cosic, 57, who is a sales woman, poses for a picture next to her family home in the village of Krivelj, Serbia, April 3, 2024. "I come here everyday from a neighbouring town of Bor where I live now, to support my brother and other villagers," said Cosic during an interview with Reuters.

The last women standing in a Serbian village swallowed by mine

Ivana Sekularac, Marko Djurica |Updated 7 minutes ago |2 min read

By Marko Djurica and Ivana Sekularac KRIVELJ, Serbia (Reuters) - The women are nurses, school teachers, students and housewives. They span three generations. And they are up for a fight. Nearly two-dozen women are at the centre of a battle to ...

UK Conservative lawmaker suspended over allegations of misusing funds

Reuters |Updated 26 minutes ago |1 min read

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's governing Conservative Party has suspended one of its lawmakers while he is investigated over allegations that he misused campaign funds, a spokesperson for the Conservatives' head of party discipline said on ...

Burkina Faso expels three French diplomats for 'subversive activities'

Reuters |Updated 26 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Burkina Faso's military government has expelled three French diplomats for alleged subversive activities, the foreign ministry said in a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday. The three diplomats, two of whom were listed as political ...

German watchdog approves Novo's acquisition of Cardior Pharmaceuticals

Reuters |Updated 26 minutes ago |1 min read

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cartel office has approved a deal by Denmark's Novo Nordisk to purchase Cardior Pharmaceuticals, the regulator said in a statement on Thursday. The acquisition of Hanover-based Cardior Pharmaceuticals for up to 1.03 ...

Mariana Ubisi, the mother of Vote Ubisi (30), who was named because he was born on April 27, 1994, the same day as millions of South Africans voted in the country's first democratic election that would end Apartheid and bring Nelson Mandela to power, gathers peanuts in a field near her home in Lillydale, South Africa, March 19, 2024.

Man named Vote will cast ballot for change in South Africa

James Oatway, Thando Hlophe |Updated 26 minutes ago |2 min read

By James Oatway and Thando Hlophe LILLYDALE, South Africa (Reuters) - When Mariana Ubisi went into labour in her one-room home in rural South Africa, millions of Black citizens were queuing to vote in the election that would bring Nelson Mandela ...

A worker walks down the stairs inside the mill facility of a copper mine, run by a subsidiary of China's Zijin Mining, near the village of Krivelj, Serbia, April 5, 2024.

In Serbian village, women fight to escape encroaching mine

Ivana Sekularac, Marko Djurica |Updated 36 minutes ago |3 min read

By Ivana Sekularac and Marko Djurica KRIVELJ, Serbia (Reuters) - Before dawn, 78-year-old Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her husband then walked into her village in eastern Serbia to guard a barricade stopping trucks entering an ...

Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem was in Khan Younis on Oct. 17 at the Nasser Hospital morgue, where residents were going to search for missing relatives. He saw Inas squatting on the ground in the morgue, sobbing and tightly embracing Saly's body. "I lost my conscience when I saw the girl, I took her in my arms," Inas said. "The doctor asked me to let go... but I told them to leave her with me." Mohammed Salem won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image.

Reuters' Mohammed Salem wins 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award

Anthony Deutsch |Updated 6 minutes ago |2 min read

By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza ...