Category Archives: Canadian Press

US producer prices dip 0.1 per cent in August
WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices fell unexpectedly last month for the first time since February 2017, pulled down by falling prices for transportation and warehousing services. The drop suggests tha...
Sep 12, 2018
Months of deadly unrest devastate Nicaragua's economy
LEON, Nicaragua - Two days after protests began in Nicaragua in April, a foreign auto components company was meeting at a hotel in the city of Leon when smoke from a burning university building just a...
Sep 12, 2018
In South Sudan, some children work in mines to survive
KAPOETA, South Sudan - Stained with mud, the 8-year-old traces her fingers over the infected wound on her elbow. “It’s hard work digging and the shovel is heavy. I just want to be in schoo...
Sep 12, 2018
Newspaper reprints controversial cartoon of Serena Williams
MELBOURNE, Australia - A cartoon of Serena Williams that has been widely condemned as a racist depiction of the tennis great has been partially reprinted on the front page of the Melbourne-based newsp...
Sep 12, 2018

Three students left with serious injuries after school bus crash in Ontario
INNISFIL, Ont. - A school bus driver has been charged after a crash in central Ontario left three high school students with serious injuries on Wednesday. South Simcoe Police Service spokeswoman Sue S...
Sep 12, 2018
Tropical storm fades but still douses Hawaii with rain
HONOLULU - A gradually weakening tropical storm hit Hawaii on Wednesday, soaking a part of Maui and sending gusts of wind that toppled trees and cancelled flights at a number of airports in the state....
Sep 12, 2018
Trump says response to Puerto Rico storm 'underappreciated'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday the government is ready for massive Hurricane Florence and insisted that his administration’s response to the devastation in Puerto Rico last y...
Sep 12, 2018
Storm's uncertain track sows fear; 10 million in crosshairs
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs Wednesday as the monster storm closed in on the Carolinas, uncertainty over its projected path s...
Sep 12, 2018

Florence could flood hog manure pits, coal ash dumps
Hurricane Florence’s heavy rains could cause an environmental disaster in North Carolina, where waste from hog manure pits, coal ash dumps and other industrial sites could wash into homes and th...
Sep 12, 2018
Asian leaders fault US, say open trade best growth option
HANOI, Vietnam - A top Chinese official and leaders of several Southeast Asian countries said Wednesday that moves by the U.S. to limit trade and protect American businesses pose a grave threat to the...
Sep 12, 2018