Category Archives: Canadian Press
Paradise is reduced to ash, but memories survive the flames
PARADISE, Calif. - There’s a sweet legend about this town: On a blazing summer day in the 1850s, a lumber mill crew with a wagon and ox took a break under a grove of tall evergreens. The air was...
Nov 16, 2018
North Korea deports American even as it boasts of new weapon
WASHINGTON - North Korea on Friday deported an American citizen it says it detained for illegal entry, a U.S. official said, an apparent concession that came even as the reclusive nation announced the...
Nov 16, 2018
Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in the 1970s, when their reign of terror was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million peop...
Nov 16, 2018
A look at Americans who have been detained in North Korea
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea says it is expelling American Bruce Byron Lowrance after he slipped unlawfully into the police state known for its anti-U.S. fervour. He is believed to be the s...
Nov 16, 2018
Tijuana mayor: Caravan influx to last at least 6 months
TIJUANA, Mexico - With about 3,000 Central American migrants having reached the Mexican border across from California and thousands more anticipated, the mayor of Tijuana said Friday that the city was...
Nov 16, 2018
New Zealand makes biggest cocaine bust in banana shipment
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - New Zealand police have made the country’s largest cocaine seizure, with 190 kilograms (418 pounds) of the drug found in a container of bananas shipped from Panama. New Z...
Nov 16, 2018
Trump honours GOP donor, 6 others with presidential award
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday recognized a major Republican Party donor and six other “extraordinary Americans” with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honour t...
Nov 16, 2018
With new Egypt capital being built, what becomes of Cairo?
CAIRO - Billboards across Cairo advertise luxury homes with “breathtaking” views in compounds with names like “La Verde” or “Vinci” in Egypt’s new capital tha...
Nov 16, 2018
Florida starts painstaking hand recount in US Senate race
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Volunteers gathered around folding tables Friday to begin a painstaking hand recount in Florida’s acrimonious U.S. Senate contest, with a goal of determining the intent o...
Nov 16, 2018
Wildlife officials seize mountain lion kitten fed bratwurst
WALSENBURG, Colo. - Wildlife officials who seized a mountain lion kitten from a southern Colorado home say the feline fell ill after the residents fed it bratwurst. Travis Sauder with Colorado Parks a...
Nov 16, 2018