Category Archives: Canadian Press

PARIS - A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder made an audacious escape from prison Sunday after several heavily armed men landed a helicopter in a courtyard, freed him from a visitin...

TORONTO - An up-and-coming rap artist was one of two people killed in a brazen daylight shooting in Toronto’s bustling entertainment district, police said Sunday, marking the latest deaths in a ...

OTTAWA - Governor General Julie Payette is wishing everyone a happy Canada Day on the country’s 151st birthday. In a release this morning Payette says “Wherever you are today, whether you'...

VANCOUVER - A campaign on electoral reform officially started on Canada Day in British Columbia before a fall referendum that has triggered a constitutional challenge from a business association and a...

BOISE, Idaho - A man who had been asked to leave an Idaho apartment complex because of bad behaviour returned the next day and stabbed nine people, including six children, at a toddler’s birthda...

LONDON - Some 120 firefighters are trying to contain a wildfire that has been declared a “major incident” as it spreads in the moorlands of northern England. British fire officials said tw...

ISTANBUL - Turkey’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex activists gathered Sunday for an LGBTI pride march in Istanbul, moving from street to street for an hour as police tried to end an ...

LONDON - Britain’s Met Office weather forecasting service has issued its first thunderstorm alert in the agency’s 164-year history. The official forecasters say torrential rain, hail and l...

BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanian authorities say at least three people have died and hundreds have been rescued after thunderstorms and heavy rains swept across the country, creating flash floods. The In...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Gunfire erupted as Iranian security forces confronted protesters early Sunday amid demonstrations over water scarcity in the country’s south, violence that authorit...