Opposition slams Ontario government over ‘hallway medicine crisis’

The opposition hammered the governing Liberals over hospital overcrowding during question period at Queen’s Park Tuesday, hours after an exclusive CBC Toronto story revealed that more than 4,300 patients received care in the hallways of Brampton Civic Hospital last year. CBC | Health News

Spanish govt, opposition agree on January elections in Catalonia – Socialist party

Published time: 20 Oct, 2017 08:13 Edited time: 20 Oct, 2017 08:43 The Spanish government has agreed with the opposition Socialists (PSOE) to hold January regional elections in Catalonia, Reuters reports. The move is part of an extraordinary package of measures to temporarily impose direct rule on the region, Socialist politician Carmen Calvo told national […]

Kenyan police reportedly killed 33 in opposition stronghold area after contentious election

REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police killed at least 33 people in the capital during a crackdown following elections in August, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Excessive force by police against protesters and residents in strongholds of opposition leader Raila Odinga caused the deaths in Nairobi, the report said. President […]

Liverpool Sevilla: Jurgen Klopp clashes with opposition bench after game

Liverpool were held to a score draw on their first Champions League group match since 2014. After Saturday’s 5-0 defeat to Manchester City, Liverpool were desperate to make amends. But it was a terrible start from Klopp’s side as Wissam Ben Yedder opened the scoring for the visitors after just five minutes. Goals from Roberto […]

‘Opposition lobbied in US for sanctions, now they blame Maduro’ – Venezuelan FM

The Venezuelan opposition has been “lobbying for sanctions” in Washington against the Maduro government, and now blames him for the economic sanctions imposed by Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza told RT. In an interview with RT Spanish, Arreaza addressed the massive wargames which kicked off across Venezuela earlier on Saturday, bringing together 900,000 people, […]

‘Troops don’t solve conflicts’: German opposition slams govt report on $25bn army deployments

Germany spent roughly €21 billion ($ 25 billion) for 52 overseas deployments in the past decades, losing 108 soldiers, the defense ministry said, amid calls from top German officials to not engage in an arms race pushed by US President Donald Trump. Responding to a request for information from Germany’s Left Party (Die Linke), the […]

2 Venezuelan opposition leaders have reportedly been taken from their homes — and their families are blaming Maduro

Reuters, Jorge Silva CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma have been taken from their homes, where they were serving house arrest, family members said on Tuesday, adding that President Nicolas Maduro was responsible for their fates. Both leaders in recent days have called on Venezuelans to join protests against Maduro […]

‘We are going to paralyze this country’: Venezuela’s opposition is starting a 2-day anti-Maduro shutdown

Reuters CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s adversaries are to stage a two-day national strike from Wednesday in a final push to pressure him into abandoning a weekend election for a super-congress they say will institutionalize autocracy in Venezuela. Millions participated in a 24-hour shutdown last week, leaving businesses closed, families behind doors, and streets […]

Chris Christie: Getting Russian opposition research ‘probably’ illegal

Thomson Reuters GLADSTONE, N.J. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Monday addressed Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian attorney, saying it’s “probably against the law” to get opposition research for his father’s presidential campaign from a foreign country. But Christie, a friend and adviser to President Donald Trump, also said that it’s […]

Moscow warns against provocations as opposition moves ‘very peaceful event’ to unsanctioned location

Russian opposition activist Aleksey Navalny has, on the eve of his protest event in Moscow, decided to switch the June 12 demonstration from an approved location to an unsanctioned one. City authorities called Navalny’s move a deliberate provocation. “We are cancelling the rally on [Prospekt Akademika] Sakharova and relocating our very peaceful event to Tverskaya […]