Category Archives: Canadian Press

CAMEROON, Cameroon - The U.N. Security Council narrowly approved a U.S.-drafted resolution imposing an arms embargo on South Sudan Friday over objections that it could hurt African efforts to end the ...

LONDON - Her game face on, Melania Trump dutifully tried her hand at lawn bowls during a solo outing Friday to a historic London veterans’ retirement home on her first visit to Britain as Americ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Opposition supporters have stormed a police camp in Zimbabwe where officers were voting ahead of this month’s historic election without election officials present. The chaotic...

JOHANNESBURG - Criminal syndicates in South Africa have increased attacks on security vans transporting large amounts of cash, brazenly opening fire and blowing up vehicles in chaotic scenes that send...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Former Iowa Gov. Robert D. Ray’s legacy as a saviour to many Vietnam War refugees and as a political centrist who might have a tough time being elected today was remembered Fr...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Mark Jones says he and two of his Army buddies were out for an impromptu bachelor party when Savannah police arrested them in a drive-by slaying that would land them behind bars for mo...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Eight critically endangered black rhinos are dead in Kenya after wildlife workers moved them from the capital to a new national park, the government said Friday, calling the toll R...

SALEM, Ore. - How much medical marijuana is in the pipeline in Oregon? The managers of the state’s program concede that they simply don’t know because of lax reporting by producers and a l...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska’s last two Blockbuster video stores are calling it quits, leaving just one store open in the U.S. The stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks will close for rentals after Su...

BEIJING - China’s June trade grew by double digits amid mounting tension with Washington but Beijing warned its exporters face “rising instabilities and uncertainties.” Exports rose ...