Category Archives: Canadian Press
High stakes as 2-month sprint to Election Day begins
WASHINGTON - Control of Congress and the future of Donald Trump’s presidency are on the line as the primary season closes this week, jump-starting a two-month sprint to Election Day that will te...
Sep 10, 2018
'Wake-up call': 9-11 prompted some to move away to new lives
NEW YORK - On 9-11, Stephen Feuerman saw the World Trade Center aflame through the window of his Empire State Building office and watched, transfixed, as a second fireball burst from the twin towers. ...
Sep 10, 2018
Misfire: Maria Butina's strange route from Russia to US jail
MOSCOW - When Maria Butina arrived in Moscow from Siberia in 2011 to launch a Russian version of the National Rifle Association, her shooting range coach said she didn’t even know how to fire a ...
Sep 10, 2018
Israeli music scene jolted by international boycott movement
JERUSALEM - Israel’s Meteor Festival was meant to bring together indie groups from around the world in what organizers billed as a Woodstock-like “cutting edge musical journey that surpass...
Sep 10, 2018
Sweden joins Europe's move to right over migration backlash
STOCKHOLM - Sweden has become the latest European country to have its political order shaken by a backlash against large-scale immigration, with voters giving a boost to a far-right party and weakenin...
Sep 10, 2018
Libya oil company offices attacked, causing fire, casualties
BENGHAZI, Libya - Security forces of Libya’s U.N.-backed government on Monday stormed the headquarters of the country’s national oil company in the capital Tripoli shortly after gunmen inv...
Sep 10, 2018
Cambodia's ex-opposition leader freed awaiting treason trial
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The leader of Cambodia’s now dissolved opposition party was freed on highly restrictive bail Monday after being jailed for a year on a treason charge, the latest governmen...
Sep 10, 2018
Unlikely weapon: petanque balls help disarm Paris attacker
PARIS - They only went out to play a calm game of petanque and enjoy some late summer warmth by a Parisian canal. By the end of the evening, the three friends had neutralized a knife-wielding attacker...
Sep 10, 2018
Pence confident no one on his staff wrote NY Times column
WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence says he’s “100 per cent confident” that no one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York Times column criticizing President Donald ...
Sep 10, 2018
Case against officer who killed neighbour to go to grand jury
DALLAS - The case against a white Dallas police officer who shot and killed a black neighbour will be presented to a grand jury, which could decide on more serious charges than manslaughter, the distr...
Sep 10, 2018