Category Archives: Canadian Press
Honolulu dam's neighbours warned as storm raises water levels
HONOLULU - Heavy rains prompted a warning to 10,000 Honolulu residents that they might need to evacuate their homes as water levels in a dam rose to dangerously high levels, but officials said the cen...
Sep 14, 2018

Florida opens up hotel rooms, ports to Florence evacuees
ORLANDO, Fla. - With Hurricane Florence barrelling toward their home near Wilmington, North Carolina, Allison Hales Jordan and her husband boarded up their house, packed up their car and headed to Wal...
Sep 14, 2018
Hundreds of goats being airlifted out of Washington forest
SEATTLE - Helicopters and trucks are relocating hundreds of mountain goats from Olympic National Park in an effort officials said will protect natural resources, reduce visitor safety issues and boost...
Sep 14, 2018

Defying dangers, Idlib residents protest Syria's Assad
BEIRUT - In cities and towns across Syria’s last opposition-held province, Idlib, residents poured into the streets on Friday to demonstrate against President Bashar Assad’s government in ...
Sep 14, 2018
In Mozambique, conservationists try to curb child marriage
GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, Mozambique - Girls take turns to read aloud under a tree in rural Mozambique, part of a project by Gorongosa National Park to educate them and keep them out of child marriage....
Sep 14, 2018
Baptist pastor finds calling in post-Holocaust cemeteries
ROHATYN, Ukraine - Steven Reece pulls a shield over his face, takes a weed whacker in hand, and begins trimming tall grass in an overgrown, tick-infested Jewish cemetery in western Ukraine where tombs...
Sep 14, 2018
Submarine murder appeal adjourned after juror collapse
COPENHAGEN - The last session of Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen’s appeal against his life sentence for the murder of Swedish reporter Kim Wall was abandoned Friday after a juror collapse...
Sep 14, 2018
Young Russians taking the lead in anti-Putin protests
MOSCOW - When almost all the protesters at recent anti-government rallies across Russia went home, teenagers and young adults were the only ones left on the streets. “In my circle, more and more...
Sep 14, 2018
4 dead as Hurricane Florence drenches the Carolinas
WILMINGTON, N.C. - Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph (155 kph) winds, Hurricane Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people and swamped entire communities along the Carolina coast Frida...
Sep 14, 2018
Malaysian PM voices support for Anwar's return as lawmaker
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Friday he endorsed a move by his designated successor, Anwar Ibrahim, to contest a byelection to return as a lawmaker, and reite...
Sep 14, 2018