Category Archives: Canadian Press
Potential jurors asked about rape case against Derrick Rose
LOS ANGELES - Potential jurors in a $21 million rape lawsuit against NBA star Derrick Rose filled out questionnaires Tuesday asking them what they have heard about the case, what their favourite baske...
Oct 04, 2016
Environment audit urges nuclear safety regulator to better track inspections
OTTAWA - A federal watchdog is urging Canada’s nuclear safety regulator to tighten up its inspections, saying paperwork problems are fuelling questions about whether it is scrutinizing facilitie...
Oct 04, 2016
Arrest in killing at
George Stroumboulopoulos's L.A. home
Los Angeles police say a homeless man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a friend of George Stroumboulopoulos who was staying at the television personality’s Hollywood Hills home. LAPD Ca...
Oct 04, 2016
German prosecutors drop probe of comedian over Erdogan poem
BERLIN - German prosecutors on Tuesday dropped an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, citing insufficient evidence that he committed any cr...
Oct 04, 2016
Maria Sharapova to return in April after doping ban reduced
LONDON - Maria Sharapova will be eligible to return to competitive tennis in April after her two-year doping ban was reduced to 15 months on Tuesday by a sports court that found the Russian star bore ...
Oct 04, 2016
WADA and Interpol join forces to target trafficking
LYON, France - The World Anti-Doping Agency and Interpol have set up a joint project aimed at targeting criminal networks specialized in doping substances. WADA and the world’s largest internati...
Oct 04, 2016
IMF lowers Canadian economic growth outlook; U.S. recovery misses expectations
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund has lowered its estimates for Canadian growth in 2016 and 2017, pointing to a weaker U.S. economy than projected earlier this year. The IMF is now forecast...
Oct 04, 2016
Taliban press attack on Afghan city; 12 police die in south
KABUL - Fierce gunbattles raged for a second day on Tuesday in Afghanistan’s embattled northern city of Kunduz while in the country’s south, insurgents killed 12 policemen at checkpoints a...
Oct 04, 2016
Kerry says US not abandoning peace efforts in Syria
BRUSSELS - The United States won’t abandon its pursuit of peace in Syria after suspending direct U.S.-Russian talks on a cease-fire, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, even as he a...
Oct 04, 2016
Russia wants new UN resolution to ban extremist propaganda
Russia is pressing for a new U.N. resolution that would prohibit and counter “terrorist propaganda” used by extremist groups to recruit young people around the world. Russia’s U.N. A...
Oct 04, 2016