Category Archives: Canadian Press
Hack, fake story expose real tensions between Qatar, Gulf
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Incendiary statements about Iran and Israel posted on Qatar’s state-run news agency that authorities blamed on hackers sparked a regional dispute Wednesday, with th...
May 24, 2017
Russian defence minister boasts about arms upgrade
MOSCOW - Russia’s defence minister says the military has received a steady flow of new weapons allowing it to maintain a “strategic parity” with NATO. Sergei Shoigu said in Wednesday...
May 24, 2017
Myanmar ethnic groups, government meet for peace talks
YANGON, Myanmar - Representatives from Myanmar’s ethic rebel groups and the government gathered in the capital on Wednesday for peace talks aimed at ending decades of ethnic rebellions in the co...
May 24, 2017
Australia says its citizen freed in Yemen with Oman's help
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Australia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that an Australian citizen kidnapped in Yemen last year has been released following assistance by the sultanate ...
May 24, 2017
France: Macron ally faces nepotism allegations, amid cleanup
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to clean up politics has suffered its first blow, with a newspaper report suggesting a dubious property deal by one of his ministers. Social Coh...
May 24, 2017
Elvis Week to feature concerts, auction, candlelight vigil
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Musical performances, a memorabilia auction and a candlelight vigil are among events planned this Elvis Week, the annual celebration honouring Elvis Presley. Every year around the ann...
May 24, 2017
Victims of the bombing: Parents, children, police officer
LONDON - The names of the 22 victims killed by a bomber at a Manchester concert on Monday night have not been officially released, but here what’s known about them so far: Michelle Kiss was a mo...
May 24, 2017
Halifax medical student accused of murder was deeply in debt, trial told
HALIFAX - Medical student William Sandeson was deeply in debt and under pressure from his parents about his spending in the weeks before he allegedly murdered another student during a drug deal, a Hal...
May 24, 2017
Rescuers say 34 migrant bodies pulled from sea off Libya
ROME - The bodies of at least 34 migrants, many of them young children, were recovered from the sea off Libya after some 200 migrants tumbled into rough waters when their overcrowded smugglers’ ...
May 24, 2017
Quebec's construction sector falls idle with mass walkout
MONTREAL - Quebec construction sites fell idle Wednesday after a union alliance representing about 175,000 workers launched an unlimited general strike, crippling activity on major projects such as th...
May 24, 2017