Category Archives: Canadian Press
In the city that claims him, Ben Carson falls from grace
BALTIMORE - The portrait used to hang in the hallway, welcoming children and parents to the Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore: a smiling Dr. Ben Carson in surgical scrubs, rubbing together the ca...
Aug 20, 2018
Giuliani clarifies his 'truth isn't truth' puzzler
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s personal attorney says he wasn’t trying to make an existential point about the meaning of veracity when he declared “truth isn’t truth....
Aug 20, 2018
Bolton tells Netanyahu that Iran nuclear deal was 'wretched'
JERUSALEM - President Donald Trump’s national security adviser is bemoaning the “wretched” Iranian nuclear deal in his talks with Israel’s prime minister. John Bolton told Benj...
Aug 20, 2018
Police: Dispute leads to fatal shooting at Georgia Walmart
SNELLVILLE, Ga. - Authorities in Georgia say an argument between a woman and a male driver outside a Walmart in Snellville lead to a fatal shooting. Snellville Police Chief Roy Whitehead tells the Gwi...
Aug 20, 2018
Greeks see little cause for joy as 8-year bailout era ends
ATHENS, Greece - There’ll be no dancing in the moonlit streets of Athens. For all the official pronouncements that Greece’s eight-year crisis will be over as its third and last bailout pro...
Aug 20, 2018
Frustration rules as Venezuela unveils new currency
CARACAS, Venezuela - Saul Jimenez just wanted to buy bread from his neighbourhood bakery in Venezuela’s capital on Monday. It did not go well. Banks and most other businesses were closed for the...
Aug 20, 2018
South Sudan claims civil war is over but skepticism abounds
FAN NYAL, South Sudan - South Sudan’s government claims the shattering five-year civil war is finally over, but there is considerable skepticism. It wasn’t helped by the sight of President...
Aug 20, 2018
Escort says oligarch now has tapes on Russia interference
PATTAYA, Thailand - A model and escort from Belarus who caused a sensation by claiming to have information linking Russian interference to the election of President Donald Trump said Monday that she n...
Aug 20, 2018
As US pushes Tehran, Iran recalls American-backed 1953 coup
TEHRAN, Iran - To understand how Iran views the United States after President Donald Trump pulled America out of the nuclear deal with world powers, one needs to look first at the past. More specifica...
Aug 20, 2018
Despite deadly explosions, Mexican fireworks capital endures
TULTEPEC, Mexico - Luis Enrique Urban Gomez was tidying up at his family’s fireworks storage shed like any other day when an explosion ripped through the warehouse next door, killing its owner, ...
Aug 20, 2018