CTV News | World News - Latest International News Headlines

The upturned passenger ferry MV Nyerere floats in the water near Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (AP Photo)

130 dead after Tanzania ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria

The death toll rose above 100 after a ferry capsized and sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzania state radio reported Friday, while a second day of rescue efforts raced the setting sun. 1

This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the Uber app on an iPad in Baltimore. Uber reports earnings Wednesday, Aug. 15. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Uber driver accused of kidnapping after rider jumps from car

An Uber driver is accused of kidnapping and false imprisonment after a passenger told investigators she jumped from the window of a moving vehicle.

In this file photo taken on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, a member of the Kurdish internal security forces patrols a commercial street in Manbij, north Syria. Turkey will soon conduct joint patrols with U.S. forces in the strategic northern Syrian town of Manbij, (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Turkey says it will patrol a former ISIS-held Syrian town with U.S. forces

Turkey will soon conduct joint patrols with U.S. forces in the strategic northern Syrian town of Manbij, once a stronghold of the Islamic State group, a top Turkish official said on Friday

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, embraces Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., during a campaign rally Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP / John Locher)

Trump stumps for vulnerable senator, attacks news media at boisterous rally

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday offered full support for Dean Heller, the most vulnerable incumbent Republican senator, while unleashing a torrent of grievances against Democrats and the news media and claiming they are sabotaging his administration. 1

In this Sept. 6, 2018 photo, Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh waits to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the third day of his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Official Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kavanaugh and his accuser may both truly believe their own stories: memory experts

Memory experts say it's possible that both the Supreme Court nominee and Christine Blasey Ford—the woman who says he pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party in the 1980s-- believe what they say.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP / Evan Vucci)

Trump drops civil tone, slams Kavanaugh accuser credibility

Abandoning his previous restraint, U.S. President Donald Trump challenged the credibility of the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, declaring that if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to law enforcement. 9

In this Sept. 4, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP / J. Scott Applewhite)

Kavanaugh allegation tests support of Republican women

The response of female voters to the Kavanaugh fallout could be critical in the fight for Congress this fall, as Republicans and Democrats scramble to win over the key voting bloc of suburban women ahead of the midterms. 9

In this Aug. 21, 2018, file photo, Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen boasts of aiding Mueller investigation

U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer says he is providing "critical information" as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible co-ordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.

In this March 23, 2018, file photo, Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang greets journalists as he waits for arrival of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam. Official media say Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang has died at age 61 due to illness on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool, File)

Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang dead at 61 due to illness

The official Vietnam News Agency says Quang died at the 108 Military Hospital in Hanoi on Friday due to a serious illness. It did not elaborate.

Police in New York say at least five people, including three infants, were stabbed at an overnight day care centre in Queens. (ABC News)

Woman stabs 5 - including newborns - at New York nursery

A woman stabbed five people -- including three newborn babies -- and then slashed her wrist early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed neighbourhood nursery for new mothers and their children, authorities said. 2

Police officer secures the area as a police tent covers the the spot in Salisbury, England, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, where former Russian spy double agent Sergei Skripal and his companion were found critically ill Sunday following exposure to an "unknown substance". (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Report: Russian spy suspects detained this year by Dutch

British investigative group Bellingcat says two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy were briefly detained in the Netherlands earlier this year.

In this Sept. 14, 2004, file photo, a great white shark swims at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Outer Bay Exhibit in Monterey, Calif. (Richard Green / The Californian via AP)

Barrier Reef tourists warned after 2 shark attacks in 2 days

Tourists were warned to keep out of the water in the Whitsunday Islands on Australia's Great Barrier Reef after two swimmers were critically hurt in shark attacks on consecutive days. 2

World

More from today's international headlines

TODAY'S QUESTION

Should Ontario scrap the Green Energy Act?

Related Article