Category Archives: Canadian Press

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II is set to receive an increase in the official funding she receives each year. Buckingham Palace said Tuesday the “sovereign grant” will be 82.2 million pounds (...

Toronto’s Trump International Hotel and Tower will soon no longer bear the Trump name, a change experts say is likely the result of the U.S. president alienating customers who disagree with his ...

SYDNEY, N.S. - A young aboriginal man who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old friend “exhibits great potential” despite a difficult upbringing and should not face a lengthy jail term, a Nova ...

LONDON - Britain’s prime minister said Tuesday there must be a “major national investigation” of potentially flammable cladding on high-rise towers, while a German city evacuated an ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Tuesday said it detected “active preparations” by Syria for a chemical weapons attack, giving weight to a White House statement hours earlier that the Syrian g...

MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed the White House’s warning that the Syrian government is preparing a new chemical attack and that President Bashar Assad and his military “will pay...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Wednesday set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a “close” family or business tie to the...

WASHINGTON - Slightly more Europeans now view the United States unfavourably under President Donald Trump than favourably, according to a survey of public attitudes in three dozen countries that comes...

MOSCOW - Authorities say a bomb planted under or inside a car has killed a senior Ukrainian military intelligence officer in the country’s capital. Photos from the scene showed the mangled vehic...

BEIJING - A second landslide struck the village in southwest China where rescue workers have been looking for nearly 100 people buried over the weekend by a massive wave of rocks and debris. Chinese s...