Category Archives: Canadian Press
Pence, Xi trade barbs in speeches at Pacific summit
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence traded barbs in speeches at a summit of world leaders Saturday, outlining competing visions for global ...
Nov 17, 2018
Migrants won't see armed US soldiers on border
SAN DIEGO - As thousands of migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers converge on the doorstep of the United States, what they won’t find are armed American soldiers standing guar...
Nov 17, 2018
Melania Trump's Moment: first lady flexes muscles in big way
WASHINGTON - It turns out there is more than one Trump who can employ a few well-chosen words as a poison dart. With a bombshell public statement this week, it was first lady Melania Trump who reveale...
Nov 17, 2018
Death toll rises to 76 in California fire as Trump visits
CHICO, Calif. - Nearly 1,300 people remain unaccounted for and the death toll from the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century climbed to 76, authorities said Saturday, hours after President D...
Nov 17, 2018
Lawyer for WikiLeaks' Assange says he would fight charges
WASHINGTON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not willingly travel to the United States to face charges filed under seal against him, one of his lawyers said, foreshadowing a possible fight over ...
Nov 17, 2018
Trump jumps in to offer aid to Democrat Pelosi's speaker bid
WASHINGTON - Democrats won the majority. Now they just need a speaker of the House. The standoff over Nancy Pelosi’s bid to regain the gavel intensified as Democrats left Washington for the Than...
Nov 17, 2018
Space station supplies launched, 2nd shipment in 2 days
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A load of space station supplies rocketed into orbit from Virginia on Saturday, the second shipment in two days. And another commercial delivery should be on its way in a couple...
Nov 17, 2018
Iraq's president visits Iran weeks after US renews sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran - Iraq’s President Barham Salih began a visit to Iran on Saturday, where he pledged to improve relations less than two weeks after the United States restored oil sanctions that had ...
Nov 17, 2018
Egyptian sentenced to death for killing Christian doctor
CAIRO - Egypt has sentenced an alleged Islamic State supporter to death for stabbing and killing an 82-year-old Christian doctor in Cairo. The September 2017 killing took place when the 40-year-old, p...
Nov 17, 2018
UK leader fights back against critics amid Brexit upheaval
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May fought back against critics of her Brexit deal Saturday, telling opponents from within her party their alternative plans for Britain’s departure from ...
Nov 17, 2018