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Police in Ontario, Canada were involved in a negotiation with a landlord who allegedly shot and killed two of his tenants following a landlord-tenant dispute then barricaded himself indoors for hours. The Hamilton Police Departments shared in a press release on Saturday, May 27, at approximately 5:40 p.m that police responded to a home in Stoney Creek, Ontario where they found two people dead who had been shot.  Authorities shared that the individuals, a 27-year-old female and 28-year-old male, were tenants and renting from a 57-year-old landlord. The three individuals were allegedly in an argument, when the landlord allegedly shot and killed his tenants.  QUEBEC POLICE SOLVE NEARLY 50-YEAR-OLD COLD CASE MURDER OF TEENAGER USING DNA ADVANCEMENTS Police said that when they arrived at the scene of the crime, the landlord refused to cooperate with police and barricaded himself inside his property with firearms that were registered to him. Police blocked off the residential ...

Guatemala’s top court blocked the candidacy of another presidential hopeful on Friday, this time ending the campaign of poll leader Carlos Pineda for alleged violations of electoral law. The Constitutional Court rejected Pineda’s appeal after electoral authorities had ruled him ineligible only a month before the first round of voting June 25. "The Constitutional Court has put an end to this country’s democracy," Pineda told the AP in a phone interview. GUATEMALAN PROSECUTOR EYES STRIPPING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF LEGAL IMMUNITY "The co-optation of the state prevailed, the rein of corruption and the dictatorship," Pineda said. "It’s incredible. I feel like dead." Pineda said his final hope rests with the people of Guatemala, that the majority would cast a null vote and that new elections would be held. Pineda is the third presidential candidate ruled ineligible to run. The court rejected the final appeals of candidate Roberto Arzú on Thursday, and p...

A German government spokesperson on Friday rejected the notion that comments by Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticizing climate activists might have prompted raids against them this week. Police on Wednesday searched more than a dozen properties across Germany linked to the group Last Generation, seizing assets as part of a probe into its finances. Prosecutors in Munich said they are investigating whether the group constitutes a criminal organization after its repeated road blockades and other protests drew numerous complaints from the public. Days before the raids, Scholz said he thought it was "completely nutty to somehow stick yourself to a painting or on the street." LEFT-WING GERMAN CHANCELLOR SLAMS 'NUTTY' CLIMATE PROTESTERS BLOCKING STREETS, DEFACING ART Members of Last Generation have hit back, describing the raids as a blow to democracy and accusing Scholz of belittling young people's fears about global warming . Scholz's spokesperson, Wolfgang Buech...

An English couple who fought to get their baby son back from child services and then abused him so severely the 10-month-old was dead just over a month later were sentenced to life in prison for murder Friday in what a judge described as a case of "unimaginable cruelty." Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22, showed no emotion as family members wept and a gasp sounded in the gallery when the sentence was handed down in Derby Crown Court. Finley Boden, who the judge said had been a lovely, happy, smiley baby, died on Christmas day 2020. The final weeks of his life were hell, based on his catalog of injuries: 57 bone fractures, 71 bruises, and burns on his hand, including one probably caused by a cigarette lighter. "They acted together to inflict all his injuries and then hide him away and allow him to die in such an awful way," a relative wrote in a statement read by prosecutor Mary Prior. "I can only describe you both as monsters for what you have do...

More than 30 women abducted by separatist rebels for protesting illegal taxes imposed on them were released, the government said Friday. The women were taken earlier this month from Babanki, a farming village in the Northwest Region, along the border with Nigeria. "We have taken the women to hospitals where they are being treated for injuries and supported psychosocially," said Simon Emil Mooh, a local government official. MORE THAN 30 WOMEN IN CAMEROON ABDUCTED BY SEPARATIST FIGHTERS The separatists were collecting monthly payments from children, women and men, imposing taxes on couples before they got married, and forcing families to pay $1,000 to bury their relatives, he said. The Central African nation has been plagued by fighting since English-speaking separatists launched a rebellion in 2017, with the stated goal of breaking away from the area dominated by the French-speaking majority and setting up an independent, English-speaking state. The government has accu...

China on Friday once again disregarded Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and deployed a research ship along with five escort vessels to an area where a Russian state firm jointly operates a gas block with Hanoi in the energy rich South China Sea.   The move is Beijing’s latest escalatory step in the region after it first sent in the research vessel earlier this month along with at least one Chinese coast guard ship and nearly a dozen other vessels, Reuters reported. TAKE THAT! PHILIPPINES SENDS CHINA MESSAGE ON CONTESTED ISLANDS AS TUSSLE BREWS The research ship, Xiang Yang Hong 10, on Friday crossed a gas block known as 04-03 operated by Vietsovpetr, a joint venture between Russian-owned Zarubezhneft and PetroVietnam. The news comes one day after Vietnam called on the Chinese vessel to leave the area near the Spratly Islands after it first entered the region May 7.  China has attempted to lay sovereign claim over the entire South China Sea, recently increasi...

A passenger bus collided with a truck in Cameroon , killing at least 19 people, the government said Friday. MORE THAN 30 WOMEN IN CAMEROON ABDUCTED BY SEPARATIST FIGHTERS The bus was headed to the southern town of Eseka when it lost control and struck a "heavy duty truck," which was transporting sand, Transport Minister Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe said. The majority of people on board died on the spot. The crash happened on the Douala-Edea road near a police checkpoint and the injured were taken to hospitals in the capital, he said. DEATH TOLL IN MALAWI HIPPO ATTACK UP TO 7, 17 STILL MISSING Police have blamed the collision on reckless driving and have opened an investigation, according to Cameroon's state television . Road crashes are common in the Central African country. The government estimates that around 1,500 people die in crashes annually. from Latest World News on Fox News https://ift.tt/38gv2Kt https://ift.tt/JpmePCO