Category Archives: Canadian Press
Business execs shunned Trump panels before he disbanded them
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump had pushed many of America’s top corporate leaders to the breaking point with his inability to decisively condemn white supremacists - so they huddled on an 1...
Aug 17, 2017
Under fire - from GOP - Trump digs in on Confederate icons
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - With prominent Republicans openly questioning his competence and moral leadership, President Donald Trump on Thursday burrowed deeper into the racially charged debate over Confeder...
Aug 17, 2017
Spain rescues 600 migrants in Mediterranean in 24 hours
MADRID - Spain’s maritime rescue service has saved more than 600 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco in the past 24 hours, making it one of its busiest days so far this y...
Aug 17, 2017
Trump aide: No military solution in North Korea
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - Contradicting a boss already under pressure to fire him, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon says there’s no military solution to the threat posed by...
Aug 17, 2017
Charlottesville woman's family: Fight injustice like she did
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Family members of the young woman mowed down while protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville used her funeral as a rallying cry, telling mourners the best way to h...
Aug 17, 2017
President Trump's ardent backers support him more than ever
SUN CITY, Ariz. - President Donald Trump’s most ardent champions are sticking by him, happy to absolve him of any wrong in the blame game over the deadly weekend violence at a rally of white sup...
Aug 17, 2017
Man with knife arrested in brief Netherlands hostage-taking
PARIS - Dutch police quickly arrested a man armed with a knife who briefly held a woman hostage Thursday at a radio station building in the Netherlands. The woman was shocked but otherwise unhurt in t...
Aug 17, 2017
German nationalist leader Frauke Petry could lose immunity
BERLIN - German nationalist leader Frauke Petry could face prosecution over allegations she lied under oath, after a parliamentary panel in the eastern state of Saxony recommended Thursday that her im...
Aug 17, 2017
Saudi Arabia reopens Qatar border for hajj pilgrims
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday that it is reopening its border with Qatar to allow Qataris to attend the hajj, despite a monthslong rift between Doha and four Arab countries...
Aug 17, 2017
Flooding maroons people in Indian states, eases in Nepal
LUCKNOW, India - Monsoon flooding is easing in Nepal, but the water flowing downriver has worsened floods in northern India and marooned thousands of villagers across the border, officials said Thursd...
Aug 17, 2017