Category Archives: Canadian Press

JOHANNESBURG - South Sudan says it is asking the United States to reconsider the sanctions it has imposed on two senior government members, a former official and three companies. Foreign ministry spok...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has personally intervened to bar an Al-Jazeera journalist from a government conference on press freedoms that uses the pan-Arab broadcaster as a c...

ATHENS, Greece - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Greece Thursday for a two-day visit during which he was expected to outline his vision for the future of the European Union and discuss Gre...

CHINO, Calif. - Getting the approval of a parole panel was the easy part for Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers. Between her and her release stands a governo...

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. - Author and Emmy-winning celebrity cook Rachael Ray has listed her home in the Hamptons for sale for nearly $5 million. Newsday (http://nwsdy.li/2wKvQGX ) reports the 49-year-old Gl...

LITITZ, Pa. - A girl says she and her friends are behind the red balloons found tied to sewer grates in a small Pennsylvania town, not a homicidal clown. Seventeen-year-old Peyton Reiff tells PennLive...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba woman is appealing her conviction for hiding the remains of six babies she conceived over many years in a rented storage locker. Andrea Giesbrecht, 43, was sentenced in July to 8...

CALGARY - Patrick Jarvis believed he’d met all the criteria at the national championship to run the 1,500 and 800 metres for Canada at the 1988 Paralympic Games. He was told, however, that Canad...

FREDERICTON - Another group of New Brunswick firefighters is heading to British Columbia to help battle historic forest fires in the province. A crew of 16 firefighters from New Brunswick and five fro...

MONTREAL - Homebuyers from mainland China have helped fuel a Montreal housing market that continued to sizzle last month with record sales and rising prices, says one real estate agent. David Mellor, ...