Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - A 20-year-old U.S. Marine from Minnesota was killed in a shooting at the Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., his mother said Wednesday. Markelle Kuznia told The Associated Press that the...

HONOLULU - Good Samaritans on nearby merchant vessels rescued 16 members of the crew of a Panamanian car carrier heading from Japan to Hawaii that caught fire in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guar...

HENDERSON, Nev. - Security guards shot and killed an armed man in a casino-resort Sunday in suburban Las Vegas during a confrontation, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was walking th...

MELBOURNE, Fla. - Officials say a 2-year-old girl has been injured after falling into the rhinoceros exhibit at a Florida zoo. Brevard County Fire Rescue officials said the girl was taken to an Orland...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - While Sheikh Hasina is set to begin her third consecutive term as Bangladesh’s prime minister following a landslide election victory, critics say having such an overwhelming ...

MOSCOW - After three-and-a-half days of fighting a mountain of concrete, cold weather and time, rescue teams in an industrial Russian city ended a search for people who were inside an apartment buildi...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalia’s government has ordered the United Nations envoy to the country to leave, amid questions over the arrest of the al-Shabab extremist group’s former deputy leader w...

VANCOUVER - Before Ian Mitchell could turn his full attention to making Canada’s junior hockey team, he had to finish his final exams. The University of Denver sophomore is one of about two doze...

SYDNEY, N.S. - A shuttered call centre in Cape Breton came back to life Wednesday, weeks after its previous owner abruptly closed the facility and tossed hundreds of people out of work just before the...

COPENHAGEN - Six passengers were killed when a Danish train sustained damage while crossing a bridge that was closed to cars because of high wind Wednesday, and authorities investigated if falling car...