Category Archives: Canadian Press
Indonesian officials fear 5,000 missing as Christians pray
PALU, Indonesia - Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, seeking answers as the death toll from the twin d...
Oct 7, 2018
Iran votes to join pact to combat terror financing
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament voted Sunday to join a global convention to cut off terror financing, hoping to avoid further international sanctions as the 2015 nuclear accord unravels. Parlia...
Oct 7, 2018
Cameroon polls close, vote counting begins in key election
YAOUNDE, Cameroon - Polls closed in Cameroon Sunday evening and vote counting began in an election that will likely see Africa’s oldest leader win another term amid fighting and threats from sep...
Oct 7, 2018
Pro-Russian Serb leader wins seat in Bosnia's presidency
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia - Pro-Russia Serb leader Milorad Dodik won a race to fill the Serb seat in Bosnia’s three-member presidency Sunday, deepening ethnic divisions in the country that faced a brut...
Oct 7, 2018
Melee at UFC 229 after Nurmagomedov chokes out McGregor
LAS VEGAS - A few seconds after Conor McGregor tapped Khabib Nurmagomedov’s arm and submitted to the champion’s choke, Nurmagomedov climbed the cage and leaped at the men in McGregor’...
Oct 7, 2018
Afghan officials say highway reopened after Taliban assault
KABUL - The Taliban destroyed highway bridges southwest of Kabul during a wide-ranging assault on security forces, cutting off road traffic between the capital and three provinces for most of the day ...
Oct 7, 2018
Nepal says its tiger population has almost doubled from 2009
KATHMANDU, Nepal - The number of tigers roaming the jungles of Nepal has nearly doubled because of initiatives from the government, conservationists and local authorities who have worked for years to ...
Oct 7, 2018
Brazil's far-right candidate falls short of election stunner
SAO PAULO - A far-right former army captain who expresses nostalgia for Brazil’s military dictatorship won the first round of its presidential election by a surprisingly large margin Sunday but ...
Oct 7, 2018
700 firefighters in Portugal battle wildfire west of Lisbon
SINTRA-CASCAIS, Portugal - Over 700 firefighters battled a wildfire Sunday in a national park west of Lisbon that forced Portuguese authorities to evacuate about 350 people. The fire that broke out ov...
Oct 7, 2018
Pompeo: 'Significant progress' made on NKorea denuke trip
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made “significant progress” toward an agreement for the North to giv...
Oct 7, 2018