Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canadian pair fifth after short program at figure skating worlds
SAITAMA, Japan - Canada's Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro are fifth after the pairs short program on Wednesday at the world figure skating championships. Moore-Towers, of St. Catharines, Ont...
Mar 20, 2019
New Zealand police: Mosque gunman had planned a 3rd attack
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for “the safest country in the world” were buried before hundreds of mourners Wednesday, the first funerals for...
Mar 20, 2019
UN judges increase sentence for Bosnian ex-leader to life
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, one of the chief architects of the slaughter and devastation of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, was sentenced to life imprisonment ...
Mar 20, 2019
'There is death all over': Cyclone Idai toll rises above 300
CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe - Mozambique began three days of national mourning on Wednesday for more than 200 victims of Cyclone Idai, while the death toll in neighbouring Zimbabwe rose to more than 100 fro...
Mar 20, 2019
Europe fines Google $1.7 billion in antitrust case
BRUSSELS - Europe’s antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time in less than two years, ordering the tech giant to pay 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for ...
Mar 20, 2019
UK's May asks a wary EU to delay Brexit until June 30
LONDON - Exactly 1,000 days after Britain voted to leave the European Union, and nine days before it is scheduled to walk out the door, Prime Minister Theresa May hit the pause button Wednesday, askin...
Mar 20, 2019
Cleanup underway after fire at Texas petrochemicals facility
HOUSTON - Crews on Wednesday extinguished a fire that had burned for days at a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility and led to concerns about air quality among some residents and environmental...
Mar 20, 2019
Egyptian author concerned about lawsuit reports against him
CAIRO - A prominent Egyptian novelist is concerned about a possible lawsuit against him after a Cairo lawyer filed a complaint accusing him of “insulting the president, the armed forces and judi...
Mar 20, 2019
UK judge denies bail to fugitive Indian diamond tycoon
LONDON - Diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, whose jewels once adorned stars from Bollywood to Hollywood, was ordered held without bail in London on Wednesday, more than a year after Indian authorities alleged...
Mar 20, 2019
Georgia city fires judge over bullying allegations
SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - The recently formed city of South Fulton, Georgia, has fired its first municipal judge over allegations that she bullied workers and approved filming a reality TV show in her court...
Mar 20, 2019