Category Archives: Canadian Press
Utah wildfire evacuees return, ready for quieter July 4th
SALT LAKE CITY - Hundreds of people forced from their southern Utah homes near the country’s largest active wildfire headed home Friday and prepared for a subdued Fourth of July celebration afte...
Jun 30, 2017
Austrian court upholds government seizure of Hitler house
VIENNA - Austria’s highest court on Friday ruled the government was within its rights to seize the house where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 after its owner refused to sell it, say...
Jun 30, 2017
Germany passes law against online hate speech
BERLIN - German lawmakers approved a bill on Friday aimed at cracking down on hate speech on social networks, which critics say could have drastic consequences for free speech online. The measure appr...
Jun 30, 2017
Germany to limit foreign election rallies after Turkey spat
BERLIN - Germany is clamping down on election rallies by foreign officials following a spat with Turkey ahead of that country’s constitutional referendum, the government said Friday. All embassi...
Jun 30, 2017
California politicians' gun control moves hit by 2 setbacks
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California politicians’ attempts to strengthen some of the nation’s strictest gun laws suffered two setbacks this week - the latest when a federal judge blocked a law ...
Jun 30, 2017
Rosy economic data, central bank survey back expectations of interest-rate hike
OTTAWA - Sturdy economic growth and a central bank survey showing renewed business optimism reinforced expectations Friday that Canada’s first interest rate hike since 2010 could be less than tw...
Jun 30, 2017
Canadians around the world prepare to celebrate Canada's 150th
If Rahel Bailie still lived in Vancouver, she would likely poke fun at the Canada 150 festivities or steer clear of them altogether. Now that she’s lived in London for more than three years, how...
Jun 30, 2017
Militant siege, drug killings mark Duterte's stormy 1st year
MANILA, Philippines - It’s been a remarkably turbulent first year for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose war on drugs has left thousands of suspects dead and prompted critics to call hi...
Jun 30, 2017
South Africa's Zuma admits party corruption, targets critics
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday acknowledged corruption and other “negative tendencies” in the ruling party that has led since the end of apartheid in 1994, but...
Jun 30, 2017
UN chief: Progress in Cyprus talks, much more to be done
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Progress has been slow in high-level talks to reunify the ethnically divided island of Cyprus, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday, with security issues in particular...
Jun 30, 2017