Category Archives: Canadian Press
2 gang rapes show India struggling on women's safety
NEW DELHI - One woman was brutally gang raped and murdered, her body left disfigured in a patch of shrubs near her home in a north Indian village. Days later, another woman was abducted and gang raped...
May 16, 2017
EU urges member nations to share more refugees
BRUSSELS - The European Union’s landmark migrant plan to share 160,000 refugees in Italy and Greece among their EU partners is likely to result in less than 40,000 people finding new homes by th...
May 16, 2017
Jailhouse videos show quirks of Charleston church gunman
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A week before the sentencing phase of his trial, Dylann Roof got a visit in jail from his mother, who pleaded with him to reconsider his decision to act as his own lawyer in the fat...
May 16, 2017
IOC evaluation commission praises Paris' vision
PARIS - IOC evaluation commission chairman Patrick Baumann praised Paris’ vision for the Olympics as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the French capital on Tuesday. Baumann, however, stopped s...
May 16, 2017
Danish teenager found guilty of terrorism, sentence pending
COPENHAGEN - A Danish court on Tuesday convicted a teenage girl of attempted terrorism for planning bomb attacks against two schools. Holbaek District Court judge Peder Christensen says the 17-year-ol...
May 16, 2017
Israeli Cabinet minister cancels Jordan visit after shooting
JERUSALEM - An Israeli Cabinet minister called off a long-planned visit to Jordan on Tuesday for a joint scientific venture following a spat between the countries over a deadly shooting in Jerusalem. ...
May 16, 2017
Alabama sheriff: No gun found on man shot, killed by deputy
BAY MINETTE, Ala. - Authorities in Alabama say no weapon was recovered from a man fatally shot by a deputy on Interstate 10. AL.com reports (http://bit.ly/2qmmj7S) Baldwin County Sheriff Huey Mack sai...
May 16, 2017
Tiny uninhabited Pacific isle has 38 million pieces of trash
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - When researchers travelled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on...
May 16, 2017
Ivory Coast says deal reached with mutinous soldiers
ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire - Ivory Coast’s government has reached an agreement with mutinous soldiers who had taken to the streets in the West African nation’s largest cities to demand m...
May 16, 2017
Interim Conservative leader Ambrose begins farewell to political life
OTTAWA - When interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose began using the photo-sharing social media site Instagram, the pictures she posted were all in black and white. She opened the account just days ...
May 16, 2017