Category Archives: Canadian Press

BIRMINGHAM, England - Britain’s Brexit chief appealed for Conservative Party unity on Monday, as he warned the European Union that the U.K. will leave the bloc without a divorce deal rather than...

PALU, Indonesia - As officials began burying hundreds of dead in a mass grave Monday, thousands of survivors of a devastating earthquake and tsunami converged on the airport of this heavily damaged In...

LAS VEGAS - The marquees on the glimmering Las Vegas Strip dimmed their lights for three minutes Monday night as officials slowly read the 58 names of the people killed one year earlier in the country...

COPENHAGEN - The man at the centre of a sex abuse and financial crimes scandal in Sweden that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature was convicted of rape and sentenced Mo...

WASHINGTON - Democrats are raising new questions about the truthfulness of Brett Kavanaugh’s sworn testimony to the Senate, shifting tactics against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court ...

CANBERRA, Australia - A passenger’s body has been found in the Pacific lagoon where a plane crash-landed last week near an island runway in Micronesia. Air Niugini had initially said all 47 pass...

BERLIN - Authorities say they successfully rescued six people from a hot air balloon that collided with a power line tower in western Germany and became snared 70 metres (230 feet) above the ground. C...

TOKYO - The celebratory crowds in Okinawa chanted the unusual first name of the southern Japanese island’s newly elected governor, shouting, “Denny! Denny! Denny!” The scene highligh...

BERLIN - German police have arrested seven men on suspicion of forming a “far-right terrorist organization” in the eastern city of Chemnitz and planning to carry out attacks against foreig...

Six stories in the news for Monday, Oct. 1 --- CANADA INKS 11TH HOUR TRADE DEAL WITH U.S., MEXICO A new era in North American free trade dawned in the dead of night Sunday as negotiators put the finis...