Month: March 2016

A court has ordered a Canadian news outlet to hand over records of a reporter’s online chat with an alleged jihadist to federal police, according to the ruling obtained by AFP Thursday. The information includes screenshots of an online chat between Vice Media reporter Ben Makuch and Farah Shirdon, a Canadian charged in absentia last September with leaving the country to join a banned terrorist group, threatening Canada and its allies, and related offences. Between June and October 2014 Makuch wrote three articles published by Vice Media about Shirdon’s involvement with IS, based on communications with him.

PIRAEUS, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the flow of refugees and other migrants into Europe (all times local):

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States pledged Thursday to deepen cooperation with allies South Korea and Japan on deterring the North Korean nuclear threat, working to ramp up pressure following worrying provocations. Leaders of the three countries urged the world community to vigilantly enforce new U.N. sanctions.