Category Archives: Canadian Press
Merkel, Netanyahu play down differences during Israel visit
JERUSALEM - The leaders of Israel and Germany, countries that have built a strong alliance since the horrors of the Holocaust, put on a display of unity in Jerusalem on Thursday, even as the two state...
Oct 04, 2018
Saudis insist missing Post contributor left Turkey consulate
ISTANBUL - Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul insisted Thursday that a missing Saudi contributor to The Washington Post left its building before disappearing, directly contradicting Turkish of...
Oct 04, 2018
Financially hard-up women get help in pursuing MeToo cases
NEW YORK - A dollar store cashier from Brooklyn. Five fire department paramedics in Chicago. An aspiring singer shunned by Nashville’s country music establishment. Thanks to a $22 million legal ...
Oct 04, 2018
EgyptAir stands by purported interview with Drew Barrymore
CAIRO - EgyptAir is standing by a writer for its in-flight magazine who penned a bizarre article purportedly based on an interview with American actress Drew Barrymore. The article led with a descript...
Oct 04, 2018
Ronaldo left off Portugal squad for upcoming matches
LISBON, Portugal - Cristiano Ronaldo was left off Portugal’s national team squad for a pair of upcoming matches, the decision coming Thursday as the soccer great fights a rape allegation in the ...
Oct 04, 2018
Trump adviser says GOP candidates should embrace president
WASHINGTON - The White House has a message for vulnerable House Republicans tiptoeing around President Donald Trump: Get on board or start packing. The warning comes in a memo from White House politic...
Oct 04, 2018
Cemetery case puts property rights issue before high court
SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Rose Mary Knick makes no bones about it. She doesn’t buy that there are bodies buried on her eastern Pennsylvania farmland, and she doesn’t want people strolling onto...
Oct 04, 2018
Vice-President Pence accuses China of meddling in US
WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence charged Thursday that Russia’s influence operations in America pale in comparison with the covert and overt activities China is taking to interfere in the ...
Oct 04, 2018
Another rare fish pulled back from extinction
DENVER - Another rare Colorado River fish has been pulled back from the brink of extinction, wildlife officials said Thursday, the second comeback this year for a species unique to the Southwestern U....
Oct 04, 2018
Mural of ex-inmates seeks public input on mass incarceration
PHILADELPHIA - For nearly two decades, Philadelphia’s Municipal Services Building has been home to a bronze sculpture of Frank Rizzo, the polarizing, tough-on-crime former mayor and police commi...
Oct 04, 2018