Category Archives: Canadian Press

MIAMI - The United States cannot legally return a former Panamanian president to face political espionage charges in Panama, his lawyers argued Thursday, pointing in federal court to what they call fl...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Deaths in U.S. coal mines this year have surged ahead of last year’s, and federal safety officials say workers who are new to a mine have been especially vulnerable to fatal ac...

WARSAW, Poland - Polish investigators questioned Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, for more than eight hours Thursday as a witness in an investigation into the 2010 plane crash that kill...

TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his Cabinet on Thursday, seeking to repair his tattered approval ratings by installing well-known moderates in key roles. Abe said he would focus on bread-...

WARSAW, Poland - Masked soccer hooligans attacked staff members travelling with an Israeli soccer team following a friendly match in Poland, in what the Israeli Embassy said Thursday was an “ant...

MONCTON, N.B. - Ottawa will bring “absolutely every protection to bear” to protect and bolster right whales following 10 deaths in the Gulf of St. Lawrence since early June, says federal F...

LONDON - The Bank of England cut its growth forecast for Britain on Thursday, saying it expects a “sluggish” economy as household incomes are squeezed by a rise in inflation that followed ...

TORONTO - After 16 years, Dina Alker is going to put her house in Toronto up for sale Monday, joining the throngs of others in the city who have decided to downsize as a chill gripping what was once o...

JOHANNESBURG - Al-Qaida’s North Africa branch has freed a South African man who was held hostage for six years in Mali and he is now home, South Africa’s government announced Thursday, den...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The Prague Zoo says five cheetah cubs that were recently born in the park are doing well. The zoo said Thursday the quintuplets - three male and two female - have survived the...