Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Eager to dismiss his critics, President Donald Trump is fabricating the circumstances regarding jobs, the economy and the social safety net. He insists that Social Security and Medicare a...

ZEEBRUGGE, Belgium - With arms flailing and raised voices, a shipping manager and a customs chief in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge talk through all the things that could go wrong if the Brexit talks f...

BENI, Congo - Two times a day, Kasereka Mulanda comes to a new kind of Ebola treatment centre to visit his wife, easing the isolation of a highly contagious disease. Stepping to the clear plastic shee...

HALIFAX - One of two British sailors accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a Halifax-area military base is still in hospital, delaying their trial yet again. Simon Radford’s lawyer told Nova...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A search for a German pop singer who went overboard from a cruise ship off Newfoundland and Labrador has been called off. Maritime Forces Atlantic says after 80 hours of searc...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Florence exploded into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds up to 140 mph (220 kph) and water that could w...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have detained two artists over a theatre production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Cultural official Shahram Karami told the official IRNA n...

WARSAW, Poland - Human rights activists have held a silent protest in support of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker on hunger strike in a Russian prison, at a major international conference in Poland...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia politician whose grandparents fled the Holocaust says she is disheartened that graffiti using Nazi imagery was found in several places near her Halifax-area riding. NDP MLA Cla...

HOUSTON - The winner of the 1995 Miss Universe crown has died following a long-term illness. KTRK-TV cites a statement by the family of Chelsi Smith that says the pageant winner died Saturday at 45 ye...