Category Archives: Canadian Press
IS kills 2 in attack on Iraqi Kurdish base
KIRKUK, Iraq - Islamic State militants attacked a base near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, killing two soldiers before U.S.-led forces launched a wave of airstrikes to repel the assault,...
May 07, 2017
Somalia says regional al-Shabab leader is killed in raid
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A regional leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been killed in a raid by Somalia’s military, the government announced Sunday, as the country’s new offensive aga...
May 07, 2017
A polished Le Pen maintains gritty image in French vote
PARIS - The months of grueling campaigning have polished her image. The driving ambition has been softened to widen her appeal to French voters. But Marine Le Pen has not lost the gritty, populist edg...
May 07, 2017
Banker, economic adviser and now youngest French president
PARIS - Emmanuel Macron has been a star student, a champion of France’s tech startup movement, an investment banker and economy minister. But the man who will become France’s youngest pres...
May 07, 2017
Legend of 1977 Grateful Dead show at Cornell lives on
ITHACA, N.Y. - The Grateful Dead performed thousands of concerts, none acclaimed quite like their May 8, 1977, show at a Cornell University field house on a freakishly snowy night. Revered by Deadhead...
May 07, 2017
Pakistan, Afghanistan dispute toll after clashes
QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistan said Sunday its forces killed at least 50 Afghan troops and destroyed five checkpoints in clashes along the disputed border two days earlier, while Afghanistan dismissed th...
May 07, 2017
100 years later, Toronto genealogists help soldier's family find his burial site
TORONTO - After a search that spanned nearly a century, genealogists in Toronto have helped a Scottish family track down the unmarked grave of a relative who died after serving in the First World War ...
May 07, 2017
B.C. Green leader making bold predictions about multiple seats in Tuesday's vote
DUNCAN, B.C. - It’s a warm spring night and Green party Leader Andrew Weaver is standing in the middle of a paved road on a Vancouver Island First Nation talking about vote splitting in British ...
May 07, 2017
Clark still smiling about chances as B.C. election enters homeward stretch
PRINCETON, B.C. - Christy Clark appears unruffled by the rebuff of a shy one-year-old outside a cafe in southern British Columbia, who buries his head in his father’s shoulder. Unfazed, the B.C....
May 07, 2017
Montreal traffic czar seeks to ease anger, mistrust about never-ending road work
MONTREAL - In Montreal it is not uncommon for a section of road to be closed for repair work, asphalted and reopened to traffic for a short period of time, only to be excavated once again for more con...
May 07, 2017