Category Archives: Canadian Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Latino scholars and activists are criticizing Republican Mike Pence for referring to “that Mexican thing,” at the vice-presidential debate as he tried to brush aside cr...

KUFR SUM, Jordan - Germany’s development minister says it’s “a scandal” that more than 70,000 displaced Syrians are going hungry and thirsty in a remote desert area on the bord...

BAGHDAD - Turkey and Iraq summoned each other’s ambassadors on Wednesday to protest statements by one country’s prime minister and the other’s parliament, a move reflecting growing t...

BRUSSELS - Afghanistan’s recent peace deal with a notorious warlord could be a model for reconciliation with the Taliban, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday, imploring the country...

BRUSSELS - International donors pledged $15.2 billion dollars on Wednesday to help keep Afghanistan’s beleaguered government afloat for the next four years, despite growing reluctance to pour mo...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s acting opposition leader briefly left the party headquarters where he took refuge from arrest four months ago and was able to register to vote in next year̵...

JERUSALEM - The world’s oldest man has finally celebrated his bar mitzvah - a hundred years later than usual. Israel Kristal, 113, has lived through both World Wars and survived the Auschwitz co...

JERUSALEM - Israel carried out airstrikes on Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory landed in a street in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Wednesday, t...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Less than a year after a devastating motorcycle wreck that friends say left him muddled and struggling, Keith Lamont Scott was shot to death by Charlotte police officers who said he ...

LOS ANGELES - When the Los Angeles Police Department released video capturing part of a deadly confrontation between police and a black man, the criticism was immediate. Although activists had been ca...