Category Archives: Canadian Press

CAIRO - The U.N. food agency said Wednesday time was running out for aid groups working in Yemen to prevent a “devastating” famine in the war-torn country. World Food Program said new entr...

NEW DELHI - India’s government on Wednesday approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce. The government decision ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Elizabeth Smart said Tuesday that she’s been assured the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted will be closely watched when she&...

LONDON - British police are investigating a possible hate crime after a car hit pedestrians near a Muslim community centre, injuring three people. Police were called early Wednesday morning after a co...

BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. - As the pounding rains from Hurricane Florence finally ended, Lutrice Garcia left the shelter where she had spent several nights on a cot and tried to head home. But floodwaters f...

WASHINGTON - The politics of natural disasters can be tricky for a president. Long before President Donald Trump tossed paper towels to storm-stricken Puerto Ricans and denied Hurricane Maria’s ...

WASHINGTON - While Hurricane Florence barrelled through the Carolinas, a different type of storm was brewing within the federal disaster relief agency tasked with responding to the fallout. The fate o...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The Korean leaders’ surprisingly substantive summit announcement is a huge step toward a durable peace on the Korean Peninsula - and a Nobel Peace Prize for Kim Jong ...

PINHAO, Portugal - The scorching late summer sun of northern Portugal is ripening the black, super-sweet grapes that will go to make what European Union rules say is the only wine in the world that ca...

SALZBURG, Austria - European Union leaders agreed Thursday to enter talks with Egypt to help stem the flow of migrants entering Europe from Africa, offering to step up economic co-operation and the pr...