Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - While Hurricane Florence barrelled through the Carolinas, a different type of storm was brewing within the federal disaster relief agency tasked with responding to the fallout. The fate o...

PINHAO, Portugal - The scorching late summer sun of northern Portugal is ripening the black, super-sweet grapes that will go to make what European Union rules say is the only wine in the world that ca...

JUBA, South Sudan - With “staggering brutality,” South Sudan government soldiers and allied militia targeted civilians by raping them, burning them alive, running them over with armoured v...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia’s stunning political reforms are now threatened by long-standing ethnic tensions that have roared back to life since a young prime minister took power just five ...

WASHINGTON - Robert Mueller has been busy. In just the last two weeks, the special counsel has secured the co-operation of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, dispensed with the c...

BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. - As the pounding rains from Hurricane Florence finally ended, Lutrice Garcia left the shelter where she had spent several nights on a cot and tried to head home. But floodwaters f...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The Korean leaders’ surprisingly substantive summit announcement is a huge step toward a durable peace on the Korean Peninsula - and a Nobel Peace Prize for Kim Jong ...

SALZBURG, Austria - European Union leaders agreed Thursday to enter talks with Egypt to help stem the flow of migrants entering Europe from Africa, offering to step up economic co-operation and the pr...

NAGA, Philippines - A massive landslide buried dozens of homes near a central Philippine mountain Thursday, killing at least 21 people and sending rescuers scrambling to find survivors after some sent...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - As the teacher pointed to the large touch screen, her first-grade classroom came alive. With the click of a link, an animated character popped up on the screen, singi...