Category Archives: Canadian Press
Martin Luther letter critical of Jews is up for auction
BOSTON - A letter written nearly 500 years ago by Martin Luther in which he refers to Jews as “devils incarnate” during a tirade against a former ally is up for auction, but Luther scholar...
Jul 10, 2018
Supreme Court enjoys relatively high public confidence
WASHINGTON - The next Supreme Court justice will join the bench at a time when the public has more confidence in the high court than in Congress or the presidency. A Gallup survey in June found 37 per...
Jul 10, 2018
Pompeo talks tough on Iran while visiting the Emirates
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that America and its Gulf Arab allies want to show Iran that its actions have “a real high cost,” step...
Jul 10, 2018
UK prime minister seeks to stem Cabinet exodus over Brexit
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted Tuesday that her plan to retain close ties with the European Union “absolutely keeps faith” with voters’ decision to leave the bl...
Jul 10, 2018
Many out of power, water in flood-hit Japan; over 150 dead
HIROSHIMA, Japan - Akira Tanimoto says his apartment narrowly survived the floods and mudslide at his residential complex over the weekend, and even if he wants to go back there with his wife and two ...
Jul 10, 2018
South Korea to probe military plan to quell Park protests
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea’s president has ordered an investigation into a revelation that the military drew up a plan to mobilize troops if protests last year worsened over the fat...
Jul 10, 2018
As German neo-Nazi trial ends, families demand more answers
MUNICH - Families of the people killed by a neo-Nazi group that sought to terrorize migrants in Germany called Tuesday for an investigation to continue even as the trial of group’s only known su...
Jul 10, 2018
Officers describe faint whimper, finding abandoned infant
MISSOULA, Mont. - A faint whimper in the darkness was all it took. Missoula County Sheriff’s Deputy Ross Jessop and U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer Nick Scholz rushed toward the soun...
Jul 10, 2018
European exporters shift trade to avoid higher US tariffs
BEIJING - European companies that export from China are changing the global flow of their goods to avoid higher American tariffs, a business group said Tuesday, as the impact of the U.S.-Chinese trade...
Jul 10, 2018
UK police say they've spoken to surviving nerve-agent victim
LONDON - British police said Wednesday they have spoken briefly to the surviving victim of a nerve-agent poisoning in southwest England as they try to uncover how he and his girlfriend were exposed to...
Jul 10, 2018