Category Archives: Canadian Press
Anthony Weiner reports to prison for sexting conviction
AYER, Mass. - Former Rep. Anthony Weiner reported to prison Monday to begin a 21-month sentence for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. Weiner is being held at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massac...
Nov 06, 2017
China adds 2 satellites to homemade global navigation system
BEIJING - China has added two satellites to its homegrown global navigation and positioning network that seeks to reduce reliance on the U.S.-based Global Positioning System, state media reported Mond...
Nov 06, 2017
Typhoon death toll in Vietnam climbs amid widespread floods
HANOI, Vietnam - A powerful typhoon that rocked Vietnam has killed at least 44 people, left more than a dozen missing and caused extensive damage to the country’s south-central region ahead of a...
Nov 06, 2017
Policeman testifies that 4 N. Koreans fled after Kim killing
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia - A police officer testified Monday at the trial of two women accused of killing the half brother of North Korea’s leader that four suspects at large believed to have plotted...
Nov 06, 2017
New Australian government lawmaker under dual citizen cloud
CANBERRA, Australia - Another Australian politician has had his eligibility to sit in Parliament called into question due to a constitutional ban on dual citizens, while the prime minister proposed ma...
Nov 06, 2017
2 sled dogs killed by train while crossing tracks in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Railroad officials say two sled dogs were killed near Nenana after being hit by a train. KTVA reports that the dogs were hit on Friday as the train sounded its horn and atte...
Nov 06, 2017
Trump: Texas mass shooting is about mental health, not guns
TOKYO - Responding to a U.S. mass shooting for the second time in six weeks, President Donald Trump said Monday that it wasn’t “a guns situation” that was behind the slayings of more...
Nov 06, 2017
Saudi barred Yemeni president from going home, officials say
CAIRO - Saudi Arabia has barred Yemen’s president, along with his sons, ministers and military officials, from returning home for months, Yemeni officials tell The Associated Press, a sign of ho...
Nov 06, 2017
Writers urge Trump to seek release of Nobel laureate's wife
BEIJING - Ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, literary luminaries such as Margaret Atwood and Philip Roth are calling on China to free the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu X...
Nov 06, 2017
Matthew Tkachuk scores shootout winner as Flames edge Devils 5-4
CALGARY - Matthew Tkachuk’s shootout arsenal has yet to fail him so far this season. Tkachuk scored the shootout winner on Sunday night to lead the Calgary Flames over the New Jersey Devils 5-4....
Nov 05, 2017