Category Archives: Canadian Press

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Police in southern Alberta say a young boy allegedly abducted by his mother and taken out of the country three years ago is back in Canada. A brief statement from Lethbridge police...

HALIFAX - Five years ago, Melanie Mackenzie got pregnant. Her birth control had failed, and the then 29-year-old knew she didn’t want to have a baby. She wanted an abortion. “I found out I...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Radesh Singh’s grandfather was just 11 years old when he left his village in India’s Punjab province to move to Peshawar, in the far northwest of the country on the bo...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - There has been a spike in violence in an eastern town in Saudi Arabia, where masked security forces patrol the streets in armoured cars and come under fire from local Shi...

WASHINGTON - It may not equal Social Security and Medicare as a “third rail” program that politicians touch at their own risk, yet Medicaid seems to have gotten stronger after the Republic...

WASHINGTON - Proponents of nuclear power are pushing to revive a failed project to build two reactors in South Carolina, arguing that the demise of the $14 billion venture could signal doom for an ind...

OTTAWA - Joannie Rochette, who captured the hearts of Canadians when she competed at the Vancouver Olympics just days after her mother’s death, is headed to Skate Canada’s Hall of Fame. Sh...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Rufino Varela was a distraught, confused 12-year-old when he went looking for help from the school chaplain to tell him he’d been sexually abused by a mason at his fami...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia’s new crown prince hopes to transform the kingdom and modernize society, but the planned execution of 14 Shiite protesters charged with violence agains...

MANSHIYEH, Jordan - Since his family fled civil war in Syria five years ago, 15-year-old Ali al-Sbehi hasn’t set foot in a school. Instead, he has put in 12-hour shifts in a supermarket, a fast ...