Category Archives: Canadian Press
Pardoned ranchers arrive home, plan lots of 'decompressing'
SALEM, Ore. - Father and son ranchers, who were the focus of a battle about public lands and were freed from prison after receiving a presidential pardon, were welcomed home Wednesday in Oregon by rel...
Jul 11, 2018
A brief history of German neo-Nazi group NSU
MUNICH - German authorities blame the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground for a string of violent crimes including the racially motivated killing of nine men, the killing of a policewoman, t...
Jul 11, 2018
A look at the 5 people convicted in Germany's neo-Nazi trial
MUNICH - Five people have been convicted as part of a trial that began in May 2013 over their involvement with the National Socialist Underground, a neo-Nazi group that carried out the biggest killing...
Jul 11, 2018
Coffee and conservation: Mozambique tries both on a mountain
MOUNT GORONGOSA, Mozambique - At Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa - where farmers are being encouraged to grow coffee in the shade of hardwood trees, both to improve their own lot and to restore the...
Jul 11, 2018
Abe visiting flood-hit western Japan as deaths reach 176
HIROSHIMA, Japan - Residents shovelled mud and debris to clear streets so they could get out for food and other supplies Wednesday in areas of western Japan hard hit by landslides and flooding that st...
Jul 11, 2018
The case of the 141-year-old voter: Zimbabwe ballot at risk
HARARE, Zimbabwe - The world’s oldest person is 141 years of age and lives in Zimbabwe. Not far behind is a 134-year-old, also in Zimbabwe. At least that’s according to the country’s...
Jul 11, 2018
Execution blocked after company objects to use of its drug
LAS VEGAS - A twice-convicted killer who wants to die rather than spend his life in prison was about an hour from eating his final meal Wednesday when he found out a Nevada judge had indefinitely dela...
Jul 11, 2018
Pollution controls help red spruce rebound from acid rain
STOWE, Vt. - The grey trunks of red spruce trees killed by acid rain once heavily scarred the mountain forests of the Northeast. Now those forests are mostly green, with the crowns of red spruce peeki...
Jul 11, 2018
New San Francisco mayor vows to leave no resident behind
SAN FRANCISCO - The first black female mayor of San Francisco made history Wednesday as she took the oath of office and outlined an ambitious to-do list to make a city known for immense wealth but als...
Jul 11, 2018
Facebook faces U.K. fine over its privacy scandal
LONDON - Facebook is facing its first financial penalty for allowing the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to forage through the personal data of millions of unknowing Facebook users. A U.K. govern...
Jul 11, 2018