Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada has been truly dominant during six-plus years of perfection
TORONTO - Five players from the last Canadian team to lose in the best-on-best format have retired. Another spent last season playing in Germany. Indeed, it’s been a while since Team Canada drop...
Sep 30, 2016
Samsung working with Health Canada to address potential risk from washers
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Samsung says it is working with Health Canada to address potential safety issues with certain top-loading, high-efficiency washing machines that can vibrate to the point where they...
Sep 30, 2016
Saudi Arabian border guard killed by shell fired from Yemen
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Authorities say a Saudi border guard has been killed by a shell fired from Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is battling Shiite rebels. Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said in a statement Fr...
Sep 30, 2016
1 killed, 2 wounded in bomb attack in southeast Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have detonated a roadside bomb in southeastern Turkey as a military vehicle was passing by, killing a village guard and woundi...
Sep 30, 2016
Thailand confirms SE Asia's first Zika-linked birth defects
BANGKOK - Authorities in Thailand have confirmed that two cases of babies with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, were caused by the Zika virus, the first such cases found in Southeast Asia. Dr....
Sep 30, 2016
California police show videos of fatal shooting of black man
EL CAJON, Calif. - Police released two videos Friday showing an officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man in a San Diego suburb and said they hoped showing the footage would ease escalating tensio...
Sep 30, 2016
Dutch man due in Myanmar court on insulting religion charge
YANGON, Myanmar - A Dutch citizen charged with insulting religion in Myanmar for allegedly unplugging an amplifier blasting a late-night Buddhist sermon near his hotel is to appear in court, local off...
Sep 30, 2016
Literature Nobel to be announced Oct. 13, later than usual
STOCKHOLM - The panel that awards the Nobel Prize in literature says this year’s winner will be announced on Oct. 13, a week later than in previous years. Swedish Academy member Per Wastberg con...
Sep 30, 2016
Canadian economy expands 0.5 per cent in July, beating expectations
OTTAWA - The Canadian economy beat expectations in July with fresh data showing it expanded 0.5 per cent as the country continued moving away from a contraction earlier in the year. Statistics Canada ...
Sep 30, 2016
NATO boss in autobiography: Obama backed my candidacy
COPENHAGEN - NATO’s secretary-general says his bid to become the alliance’s chief was supported by President Barack Obama, who worked behind the scenes to make it happen. In an autobiograp...
Sep 30, 2016