Category Archives: Canadian Press
Africa is divided over ivory trade ahead of wildlife meeting
JOHANNESBURG - Several African countries with some of the world’s largest elephant populations will push this year for looser controls on legal ivory trade, while another group of countries on t...
Jan 06, 2019
Egyptian policeman killed while defusing bomb outside church
CAIRO - Egypt’s Interior Ministry said a policeman was killed as he was trying to defuse an explosive device near a church in a residential Cairo district. The ministry said the blast late on Sa...
Jan 06, 2019
UK leader May: Brexit critics risk damaging UK democracy
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday that a delayed vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal will “definitely” go ahead later this month, as she promised to set out measure...
Jan 06, 2019
Reports: 2 British soldiers wounded in IS attack in Syria
BEIRUT - A missile attack by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria killed at least one Kurdish fighter and wounded two British soldiers embedded with them, according to reports Sunday, amid fierce ...
Jan 06, 2019
Cardinal on trial in France's biggest church sex abuse trial
LYON, France - A Catholic cardinal and five other people went on trial Monday accused of covering up for a pedophile priest who abused Boy Scouts - France’s most important church sex abuse case ...
Jan 06, 2019
Man charged, detained in Poland escape room game deaths
WARSAW, Poland - Prosecutors in northern Poland detained and brought charges Sunday against the man who designed an escape room entertainment site where five teenage girls were killed in a fire. The m...
Jan 06, 2019
Brother questions why American man being held by Russia
MOSCOW - The brother of an American man being held in Moscow on suspicion of spying is raising the possibility that his sibling is being used as a pawn in a potential exchange for a Russian woman behi...
Jan 06, 2019
Trump adviser: US to leave Syria once IS beaten, Kurds safe
JERUSALEM - U.S. troops will not leave northeastern Syria until Islamic State militants are defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected, a top White House aide said Sunday, signalling ...
Jan 06, 2019
Congo delays announcing results of presidential election
KINSHASA, Congo - Congo’s government Sunday postponed the release of the results of last weekend’s presidential election, fueling suspicions President Joseph Kabila’s ruling party is...
Jan 06, 2019
Anderson Cooper honoured at Sean Penn's star-studded benefit
LOS ANGELES - When Anderson Cooper first met Sean Penn after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the CNN anchor was initially skeptical of the actor’s intentions to help the recovery efforts in the ra...
Jan 06, 2019