Category Archives: Canadian Press

BEIJING - China’s Commerce Ministry on Thursday criticized a U.S. decision to launch a trade probe of Beijing’s technology policy as an attack on the global trading system and said it will...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Qatar restored full diplomatic relations with Iran early on Thursday and promised to send its ambassador back to Tehran - a move counter to the demands of Arab nations tr...

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday he’s willing to work with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in on addressing differences between the two countries following months of an...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Charlottesville officials met privately Thursday to discuss “personnel matters” in the wake of a deadly white nationalist rally, the city’s mayor said in a sta...

CAIRO - Sudan’s foreign ministry says Russia’s ambassador to the African country has been found dead in his residence in Khartoum. In a statement carried by the state-run SUNA news agency ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A transgender Singaporean and her friend have been sentenced to a year in prison in the capital of the United Arab Emirates for dressing in a feminine way, friends and fa...

BANGKOK - A Thai lawyer has withdrawn a criminal defamation case against a British BBC journalist involving a report on foreigners being defrauded of property, the BBC says. The case against Jonathan ...

Quebec will begin handing out welfare cheques to as many as 4,000 asylum seekers next week, the province’s employment minister said Thursday. “Quebec has responsibilities in immigration,&#...

An estimated jackpot of $700 million is up for grabs in the Powerball lottery draw on Wednesday night - potentially the second-largest lottery payout in the nation. Here is a look at the 10 largest U....

OTTAWA - “We have a proven track record of exceeding our spending requirements on Canadian programming and, specifically, drama and documentary programming not because we have to, but because it...