Category Archives: Canadian Press

BAGHDAD - A populist coalition organized by influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr emerged as the front-runner Monday with more than half the vote counted in Iraq’s national elections. Partia...

PAHOA, Hawaii - People nixing vacations to Hawaii’s Big island has cost the tourism industry millions of dollars as the top attraction, Kilauea volcano, keeps spewing lava. Cancellations from Ma...

SURABAYA, Indonesia - The Latest on the series on bomb attacks in Indonesia (all times local): 12:55 p.m. Indonesia’s national police chief says the suicide bombing Monday morning at police head...

LUCKNOW, India - Powerful winds and rainstorms swept across a crowded swath of northern India, demolishing houses, uprooting trees and killing at least 43 people as the winds turned the skies brown wi...

JERUSALEM - The Latest on the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and Palestinian protests (all times local): 3 p.m. A senior figure in Gaza’s ruling Hamas group says mass border protests a...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - An expedition organizer says an Australian mountaineer has scaled Mount Everest to become the fastest to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents. Steve Plain scaled Everest ...

Sunday’s Games NHL Playoffs Washington 6 Tampa Bay 2 (Washington leads series 2-0) — NBA Playoffs Boston 108 Cleveland 83 (Boston leads series 1-0) — IIHF World Championship At Copen...

Sunday’s Games NHL Playoffs Washington 6 Tampa Bay 2 (Washington leads series 2-0) — NBA Playoffs Boston 108 Cleveland 83 (Boston leads series 1-0) — IIHF World Championship At Copen...

TAMPA, Fla. - The Washington Capitals scored in the opening minute of the game and twice in the last 1:02 of the second period to pull away to a 6-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday nigh...

SURABAYA, Indonesia - An Indonesian family brought its 7-year-old daughter to a suicide bomb attack it launched Monday on the police headquarters in the country’s second-largest city, authoritie...