Category Archives: Canadian Press
UN judges increase sentence for Bosnian ex-leader to life
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, one of the chief architects of the slaughter and devastation of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, was sentenced to life imprisonment ...
Mar 20, 2019
Europe fines Google $1.7 billion in antitrust case
BRUSSELS - Europe’s antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time in less than two years, ordering the tech giant to pay 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for ...
Mar 20, 2019
Cleanup underway after fire at Texas petrochemicals facility
HOUSTON - Crews on Wednesday extinguished a fire that had burned for days at a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility and led to concerns about air quality among some residents and environmental...
Mar 20, 2019
UK's May asks a wary EU to delay Brexit until June 30
LONDON - Exactly 1,000 days after Britain voted to leave the European Union, and nine days before it is scheduled to walk out the door, Prime Minister Theresa May hit the pause button Wednesday, askin...
Mar 20, 2019
Egyptian author concerned about lawsuit reports against him
CAIRO - A prominent Egyptian novelist is concerned about a possible lawsuit against him after a Cairo lawyer filed a complaint accusing him of “insulting the president, the armed forces and judi...
Mar 20, 2019
UK judge denies bail to fugitive Indian diamond tycoon
LONDON - Diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, whose jewels once adorned stars from Bollywood to Hollywood, was ordered held without bail in London on Wednesday, more than a year after Indian authorities alleged...
Mar 20, 2019
Georgia city fires judge over bullying allegations
SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - The recently formed city of South Fulton, Georgia, has fired its first municipal judge over allegations that she bullied workers and approved filming a reality TV show in her court...
Mar 20, 2019
Extra project cash for cities needed to end-run laggard provinces, Morneau says
OTTAWA - A one-time $2.2-billion windfall in the federal budget to help Canadian cities improve roads, bridges, highways and water systems won’t become an annual tradition, Finance Minister Bill...
Mar 20, 2019
In the news today, March 20
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, March 20 --- DRUG TREATMENT LACKING IN PRISON: EX-INMATE A recently released prisoner from the Atlantic Institution in New Brunswick says he filed 70 complaints...
Mar 20, 2019
Ex-prisoner says no addiction help available as he feared return behind bars
VANCOUVER - Memories of vomiting, diarrhea and unrelenting stomach pain as he withdrew from opioids in prison had Rob MacDonald repeatedly asking for addiction treatment before he left a maximum-secur...
Mar 20, 2019