Category Archives: Canadian Press

HAT YAI, Thailand - A homemade bomb planted in a road killed three police officers Friday in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, officials said. Pongsak Khaonuan, a police investigator in Yala provi...

HAMILTON, Bermuda - People in Bermuda were being urged Friday to stock up on emergency supplies and prepare for rough weather as Tropical Storm Karl was on track to pass to the east of the Atlantic Oc...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An advocacy group has called for the immediate release of two Iranian journalists detained in Tehran. The Committee to Protect Journalists issued a statement early Friday...

ANKARA, Turkey - A passenger assaulted a driver with an umbrella on a bus in Istanbul on Friday, causing him to lose control, veer out of the bus lane and crash into oncoming traffic, officials said. ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - The bodies of a Spanish trekker and two Nepalese guides were recovered from a landslide and flown to Nepal’s capital Friday, while 15 other victims were being treated at a hos...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy produced two batches of disappointing numbers Friday that experts said were certain to catch the Bank of Canada’s attention. But despite unexpectedly weak inflation...

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - And the envelope, please! This year’s Pyongyang International Film Festival wrapped up Friday with top honours going to - wait for it - ...

Brooks Laich is no stranger to watching top draft picks blossom in the NHL. As a Washington Capital, he saw Alex Ovechkin burst onto the scene in 2005. Wearing the Maple Leaf some 11 years later, he h...

HALIFAX - Gravely ill and shackled to a hospital bed, a woman facing deportation to England won a brief reprieve Friday after her lawyer and doctor argued she was too sick to travel and should be allo...

CLARION, Pa. - A university in Pennsylvania is allowing students and workers to use nicknames on some campus records, including student identification cards and emails, in an effort to better allow th...