Category Archives: Canadian Press

MOSUL, Iraq - The death toll from a car bombing south of Baghdad claimed by the Islamic State group rose to 73 on Friday, including about 40 Iranian pilgrims, as Iraqi forces fought house to house to ...

KAIKOURA, New Zealand - In terms of human life, the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit New Zealand this month was relatively merciful: two fatalities. But geologically, it moved roads and mountains and...

BRUSSELS - The president of the European Parliament announced Thursday that he will leave his post and go into German politics, where he could become the main opponent to Chancellor Angela Merkel in n...

OTTAWA - Public inconvenience and traffic flow - not the rights of protesters - were the deciding factors when a federal agency approved a visiting Chinese delegation’s request for a privacy fen...

OTTAWA - Canadian corporate executives whose companies together employ more than a million people are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers to press ahead with collective climate actio...

Tokyo residents woke up Thursday to the first November snowfall in more than 50 years. And the Japan Meteorological Agency said it was the first time fallen snow on the ground was observed in November...

ISLAMABAD - Britain’s top diplomat on Thursday urged Pakistan and India to find a lasting solution for Kashmir a day after a deadly exchange of fire killed more than a dozen people in the disput...

CALGARY - When it comes to protecting thousands of remote oil and gas well sites scattered across Alberta’s prairies and foothills, RCMP Cpl. Curtis Peters is more concerned about crack addicts ...

Eight stories in the news for Thuesday, Nov. 24 --- TRUDEAU BEGINS AFRICA TRIP Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Liberia Thursday as he begins a trip to Africa that will also take him to the su...

ISTANBUL - Three Turkish soldiers were killed in northern Syria in what the Turkish military said was a pre-dawn Syrian airstrike on Thursday, an account disputed by Syrian activists, who said the sol...