Category Archives: Canadian Press

ORANIA, South Africa - The white Afrikaner community that famously sprang up in a sparsely populated corner of South Africa at the end of apartheid is now testing a digital currency that could reinfor...

NEW YORK - Amazon’s website ran into some snags quickly Monday on its much-hyped Prime Day, an embarrassment for the tech company on the shopping holiday it created. Shoppers clicking on many Pr...

HELSINKI - Famous for his tardiness at official talks, President Vladimir Putin did it again Monday - to U.S. President Donald Trump. Putin long has sought to meet with Trump, but the Russian leader w...

SIDNEY, B.C. - The passenger ferry departs the pier at the north end of Beacon Avenue in Sidney, B.C., bound for the long, thin sandbar that marks Sidney Spit. The voyage on board the 15-metre catamar...

LONDON - President Donald Trump has told a British TV interviewer that Queen Elizabeth II told him Brexit is “complex.” Trump’s interview with Good Morning Britain was broadcast Mond...

MARIPOSA, Calif. - A wildfire that killed a California firefighter grew quickly and forced the closure of a key route into Yosemite National Park as crews contended with sweltering conditions Sunday, ...

HELSINKI - Russia’s Vladimir Putin said Monday he did want Donald Trump to win the 2016 U.S. presidential election but took no action during the campaign to make it happen. He said he favoured t...

JERUSALEM - Israel placed new restrictions on its only cargo crossing with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to continued Hamas hostilities, even after it agreed to a cease-fire ending 24 hours of...

MOSCOW - Russian media saw Monday’s highly anticipated summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump as a heartening step forward, with the Kremlin leader as the more prominent figure. After th...

KABUL - The Taliban stormed a police checkpoint in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province and killed seven policemen, a provincial official said Monday. The attack took place the previous nigh...