Category Archives: Canadian Press
Mayor: $13.3M settlements end hard part of New Orleans' past
New Orleans’ mayor said a dark chapter in the city’s history has closed with settlements totalling $13.3 million for relatives of four men killed by police around the time of Hurricane Kat...
Dec 20, 2016
At least 26 killed in Congo protests, rights group says
KINSHASA, Congo - Security forces in Congo killed at least 26 demonstrators Tuesday and arrested scores more amid protests against President Joseph Kabila’s hold on power, a rights group said. T...
Dec 20, 2016
Islamic State claims responsibility for Jordan attack that killed Canadian
AMMAN, Jordan - The extremist Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a series of shooting attacks on police and tourists in Jordan that killed 10 people, including a woman from Canada....
Dec 20, 2016
911 call in road-rage case: 'This little kid's been shot'
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Newly released 911 recordings depict a frantic, chaotic scene as a grandmother pulls into a Little Rock shopping centre and discovers her 3-year-old grandson has been shot in what ...
Dec 20, 2016
4 Jordanian police killed in clash with gunmen during raid
AMMAN, Jordan - Four policemen were killed Tuesday in an exchange of fire with wanted men in a central Jordanian province where assailants had killed 10 people in a series of ambushes earlier this wee...
Dec 20, 2016
Canada calls for release of kidnapped couple in Afghanistan
TORONTO - Canada called Monday for the unconditional release of a Canadian man and his American wife after a new video appeared to show them begging their governments to intervene on their behalf with...
Dec 20, 2016
Germany had monitored Berlin truck attack suspect for months
BERLIN - German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin - and even kept him under covert sur...
Dec 20, 2016
Petra Kvitova injured by knife-wielding attacker at her home
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova was injured by a knife-wielding attacker at her home on Tuesday and had to undergo surgery on her left hand. An operation that took 3...
Dec 20, 2016
Iraq removes some of Baghdad's checkpoints to ease traffic
BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities have started removing some of the security checkpoints in Baghdad in a bid to ease traffic in the country’s capital with a population of about 6 million people, a sen...
Dec 20, 2016
Smog chokes Chinese cities, grounding flights, closing roads
BEIJING - Thick, grey smog fell over Beijing on Tuesday, choking China’s capital in a haze that spurred authorities to cancel flights and close some highways in emergency measures to cut down on...
Dec 20, 2016