Category Archives: Canadian Press
Emera ends involvement in troubled Bay of Fundy tidal turbine project
HALIFAX - Emera Inc. is pulling out of the troubled Cape Sharp Tidal turbine project in the Bay of Fundy. Nova Scotia Power’s parent company announced its decision in a statement released Monday...
Aug 14, 2018
Australia archbishop gets house detention for abuse coverup
NEWCASTLE, Australia - The most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse was ordered by an Australian court Tuesday to serve his 1-year sentence in home detention rather t...
Aug 14, 2018
Activist compares Beijing's rule in Hong Kong to colonialism
HONG KONG - A Hong Kong pro-independence activist decried Beijing’s rule over the city as modern-day colonialism in a speech Tuesday to a foreign journalists’ association that defied the C...
Aug 14, 2018
Beijing: Anti-China forces are criticizing Uighur crackdown
BEIJING - China blamed “anti-China forces” on Tuesday for the growing criticism of Beijing’s policies in a far western region where large groups of ethnic Uighurs are being detained ...
Aug 14, 2018
Bail, conditions set for man charged in fatal shooting
CLEARWATER, Fla. - A Florida judge on Tuesday kept bond at $100,000 for a man charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man who assaulted him outside a convenience store in a dispute over p...
Aug 14, 2018

Report: Pennsylvania priests molested over 1,000 children
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children - and possibly many more - since the 1940s, and senior church officials, including a man who is n...
Aug 14, 2018

Nebraska executes inmate using powerful opioid fentanyl
LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska carried out its first execution in more than two decades on Tuesday with a drug combination never tried before, including the first use of the powerful opioid fentanyl in a le...
Aug 14, 2018

Canadian teenage sports stars shining in 2018
Canada’s top teen athletes are making their mark in some of the biggest international sports. Here’s a look at the accomplishments of five of the country’s teen stars in 2018, with a...
Aug 14, 2018

Young Guns: Canadian teenagers shining on several sporting stages
TORONTO - The number of teenage Canadian athletes seemingly on the precipice of big things in high-visibility sports appears to be at its highest level in recent memory. The tennis scene includes Deni...
Aug 14, 2018

Italian bridge collapse sends cars plunging, killing 26
MILAN - A 51-year-old highway bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa collapsed in a driving rain Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 15 others as it sent dozens of vehicles tumbling int...
Aug 14, 2018