Category Archives: Canadian Press

VATICAN CITY - Russian athletes still have a long way to go before they can be readmitted to the Paralympics, according to the head of the International Paralympic Committee. Russia was barred from th...

MOSCOW - The Kremlin has called for an investigation after state TV broadcast mixed martial arts fights between children as young as 8. Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the Russian region of Ch...

BUDAPEST, Hungary - The Budapest election committee has approved a journalist’s initiative to hold a city referendum on the Hungarian capital’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics. The decision ...

WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: Policing in the United States’ minority communities has been a flashpoint since the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri, Tamir Rice in Ohio, Sandra Bland in Texas and oth...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant was shot and killed Wednesday while answering a burglary report and the suspected gunman was arrested after commandeering his patrol car, ra...

WASHINGTON - Even if your daughters don’t pay much attention to politics, they’d be hard-pressed to have missed Donald Trump’s attack of a former Miss Universe’s weight or comm...

MANILA, Philippines - An independent poll released Thursday showed that more than three-quarters of Filipinos are satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte, even though he is under fire internationally...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Suspected Islamic extremists killed six people in an attack in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia, an official said Thursday, while the al-Shabab extremist group claimed it h...

PHILADELPHIA - The president of the Philadelphia NAACP says the group plans to help a demolition contractor appeal his long prison sentence in a deadly 2013 building collapse. According to The Philade...

BANGKOK - Buddhist monks, survivors, mourners and activists gathered Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the darkest days in Thailand’s history, when police killed scores of universi...