Category Archives: Canadian Press
Sweden's German-born queen hospitalized for dizziness
COPENHAGEN - Sweden’s popular German-born Queen Silvia has been hospitalized on her 73rd birthday because of dizziness. The Swedish royal household says Silvia was kept overnight for observation...
Dec 24, 2016
Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall suffers miscarriage
LONDON - Officials say Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter, Zara Tindall, has suffered a miscarriage. She and her husband, retired rugby player Mike Tindall, had been expecting their second child...
Dec 24, 2016
As Obama accomplished policy goals, his party floundered
WASHINGTON - In boasting about his tenure in the White House, President Barack Obama often cites numbers like these: 15 million new jobs, a 4.9 per cent unemployment rate and 74 months of consecutive ...
Dec 24, 2016
Turkey arrests 1,656 social media users since summer
ISTANBUL - Turkish authorities have formally arrested 1,656 people in the past six months for allegedly supporting terrorist organizations or insulting officials on social media, and are investigating...
Dec 24, 2016
Nigeria: Boko Haram is crushed, forced out of last enclave
LAGOS, Nigeria - The Boko Haram extremist group has finally been crushed - driven from its last forest enclave with fighters on the run and no place to hide, Nigeria’s president declared Saturda...
Dec 24, 2016
World's last wild frankincense forests are under threat
ERIGAVO, Somalia - In a tradition dating to Biblical times, men rise at dawn in the rugged Cal Madow mountains of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa to scale rocky outcrops in search of the prized sap o...
Dec 24, 2016
In Zimbabwe's meltdown, Christmas is out of reach for many
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Naison Makwechede rummages through piles of used clothes at a busy flea market in Zimbabwe’s capital in hopes of finding Christmas clothes for his family. This secondhand sear...
Dec 24, 2016
Carrier's 'The Hockey Sweater' still captivates, 70 years after winter of 1946
MONTREAL - The last time Roch Carrier went skating was 15 years ago, when he fell and broke his kneecap trying out a new pair of blades. “My wife said, ‘why are you wearing those old skate...
Dec 24, 2016
India's Modi lays foundation of huge statue amid criticism
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid the foundation stone for a massive memorial of a medieval warrior king that’s expected to cost billions of rupees and has come un...
Dec 24, 2016
Santa's on his way: Military helps kids follow fabled flight
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Tens of thousands of children from around the world plan to call the North American Aerospace Defence Command to ask where Santa is, and starting Saturday they will get a che...
Dec 24, 2016