Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Cryptocurrency is a digital currency with no physical form or intrinsic value, but is an increasingly hot commodity as Bitcoin, its most well-known iteration, flirts with a record high. Bi...

An international summary of five year’s worth of research on Arctic climate change concludes the top of the world is getting warmer faster than anyone thought. And if it all sounds interesting b...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabweans mobilized Monday for what they hope is a major push to oust President Robert Mugabe, an increasingly isolated figure who faces impeachment proceedings and more street de...

KABUL - An Afghan official says the Taliban attacked three checkpoints in the western Farah province, killing six police. Mohammad Naser Mehri, a spokesman for the provincial governor, says eight othe...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - China’s foreign minister said Sunday that the international community must help fight poverty and promote development in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which has seen hundre...

VATICAN CITY - Celebrating Mass with poor people in the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis on Sunday denounced those who dismiss poverty as “not my business” and defined ...

BRUSSELS - Brexit is still well over year away but two European cities on Monday will already be celebrating Britain’s departure from the European Union. Two major EU agencies now in London - th...

NEW ORLEANS - LaToya Cantrell, a City Council member who first gained a political following as she worked to help her hard-hit neighbourhood recover from Hurricane Katrina, won a historic election Sat...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida is handing out more than $500,000 in grants to local communities so they can provide bear-resistant trash cans and other equipment to residents at a discounted cost. The Fl...

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he has made clear to the U.S. that Israel’s security concerns must come first as the White House tries to restart a peace process with t...