Category Archives: Canadian Press

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday elected veteran lawmaker Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the country’s new prime minister, a loyalist of outgoing Nawaz Sharif, who was ...

WASHINGTON - Consumer spending slowed in June as income growth turned in the weakest performance in seven months. Spending edged up a tiny 0.1 per cent compared to a 0.2 per cent rise in May, the Comm...

BANGKOK - Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra declared her innocence and asked for “kindness” from a court Tuesday during her final statement in a criminal negligence trial that...

SAO PAULO - For Brazilian leaders, August is the cruelest month - and one that now presents a potentially fatal challenge to the presidency of Michel Temer. In modern times, August has been a devastat...

KABUL - The U.S. watchdog tasked with overseeing the spending of billions of U.S. dollars in aid to Afghanistan said unprecedented restrictions on the movement of American government employees is send...

KABUL - A NATO statement says a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter encountered a mechanical problem that forced a hard landing in eastern Afghanistan. The region is where American troops are supporting Afghan...

PHOENIX - Republican Sen. Jeff Flake took his own party to task as well as Democrats, blaming both in a new book for the political gridlock that led to Donald Trump’s presidency and its current ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea after decades of effort has a missile potentially capable of reaching the continental United States, but analysts say Pyongyang has yet to show the ICBM can inf...

FRESNO, Calif. - A police officer frantically screamed into his radio for help, telling dispatchers he had been shot and was bleeding in the struggle and gunfight that left two officers wounded and a ...

ST. LOUIS - In a story Aug. 1 about the murder trial of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, The Associated Press reported erroneously that another officer recovered the gun found in Anthon...