Category Archives: Canadian Press

MANILA, Philippines - Officials say Philippine troops attempting to rescue hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf clashed with the militants, leaving two soldiers and five gunmen dead. Provincial commander B...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says it has destroyed the West Bank homes of three Palestinians who attacked Israeli troops earlier this year, and closed up a fourth home. Palestinian officials say t...

TOKYO - A suspected World War II-era bomb was found Thursday during construction work near the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant. The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said that a ...

PARIS - The man suspected of ramming a BMW into a group of soldiers near Paris is a 37-year-old Algerian who was known to police as a suspect in minor crimes but not as someone with radical beliefs, p...

BEIJING - Chinese monitors say they’ve detected multiple landslides but no major building collapses following a powerful earthquake in the country’s mountainous southwest that killed at le...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s parliament has passed a bill toward making women safer by strengthening laws against acid attacks along with the ancient Hindu customs of demanding dowry payments for ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner Friday of Kenya’s hard-fought presidential election, but opposition candidate Raila Odinga alleged the voting was rigged. In ann...

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government has announced a mandatory official holiday due to a heat wave. Wednesday’s late night statement calling for a Thursday holiday came from the Iraqi Cabinet as tempe...

CANBERRA, Australia - Gay-rights advocates filed a court challenge Thursday to the government’s unusual plan to canvass Australians’ opinion on gay marriage next month, while a retired jud...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s foreign minister resigned on Thursday after being accused ofpossessing a luxury apartment paid for by a businessman investigated for shady treasury bond transact...