Category Archives: Canadian Press
10 minutes of terror: A quake, a tsunami and a missing son
PALU, Indonesia - The Muslim call to prayer had just started echoing across the Indonesian city of Palu when Musrifah’s home began to shake violently. Family photos fell from the walls. Dishes a...
Oct 9, 2018
Yemeni smiths beat missiles into knives, not ploughshares
CAIRO - Sometimes, the raw material of Ali Ghomari’s work comes screaming from the skies over Yemen. Missiles fired by Saudi-led coalition jets rain down on militiamen and civilians alike, killi...
Oct 9, 2018
Limo driver's family believes he was given an unsafe vehicle
SCHOHARIE, N.Y. - Relatives of the limousine driver involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York said Tuesday they believe he was unwittingly assigned an unsafe vehicle. The family of...
Oct 9, 2018
EU security chiefs, Sessions hold stadium terrorism exercise
LYON, France - European security chiefs struggled over solutions to the migrant crisis and oversaw a simulated terrorist attack on a stadium Tuesday, with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions looking o...
Oct 9, 2018
AP Investigation: Deported parents may lose kids to adoption
As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: “They want to steal my daughter!&#...
Oct 9, 2018
Turkey to search Saudi Consulate for missing journalist
ISTANBUL - Turkey said Tuesday it will search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as it investigates why journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished there a week ago, an extraordinary probe of a diplomatic post a...
Oct 9, 2018
Indonesia says death toll in Sulawesi quake rises past 2,000
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has climbed past 2,000, the disaster agency said Tuesday, as authorities prepared to end the se...
Oct 9, 2018
A look at limo crash victims: Veteran died on 34th birthday
SCHOHARIE, N.Y. - A professor of geology. A pair of newlyweds. A former Marine who served in Iraq. Four sisters celebrating the birthday of one of their own. They are among the 20 people who died in S...
Oct 9, 2018
Humpback whale calf rescued from net off Australian beach
BRISBANE, Australia - A whale calf has been freed after becoming tangled in a shark net off the Australian east coast. Experts from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Sea World Gold Coast...
Oct 9, 2018
Japanese tycoon going on SpaceX rocket says he trusts Musk
TOKYO - The Japanese online retail tycoon who plans to travel to the moon on the SpaceX rocket says he respects and trusts Elon Musk as a fellow entrepreneur, despite his recent troubles. “Twitt...
Oct 9, 2018