Category Archives: Canadian Press

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined a chorus of tributes to the late Nelson Mandela on Monday as he urged world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly to follow the exa...

BERLIN - Birds are a well-known hazard for airport operators, but Vienna airport officials have had to deal with different winged intruders: a swarm of bats. Airport spokesman Peter Kleemann told the ...

COPENHAGEN - The man at the centre of a sex abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy awarding the Nobel Literature Prize was remanded in custody Monday, pending the verdict in...

BRUSSELS - The European Union said Monday it has decided to take Poland to the bloc’s top court over the overhaul of the country’s judicial system and also ask the European Court of Justic...

MOSCOW - Russia announced Monday it will supply Syria’s government with sophisticated S-300 air defence systems after last week’s downing of a Russian plane by Syria forces responding to a...

BEIJING - X-Men star Fan Bingbing’s Beijing management office is dark and abandoned. Her birthday passed almost unremarked in China’s hyper-adrenalized social media environment. For one of...

Voters in New Brunswick have turned have their backs on the province’s entrenched two-party system for the first time in a generation, electing enough third party candidates to leave the Liberal...

Six stories in the news for Monday, Sept. 24 --- CAPITAL RESIDENTS RETURN TO TORNADO RUBBLE Ontario Premier Doug Ford has pledged the province's full support to Ottawa residents recovering from Friday...

OTTAWA - Canada’s cities believe they will finally land easier and direct access to federal dollars in next year’s budget, or at least wrest a platform pledge from parties in the 2019 elec...

FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man accused of killing four people, including two city police officers, is due back in court next month after his case was adjourned Monday. Matthew Raymond,48, faces four ...