Category Archives: Canadian Press

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - In a jarring contrast, Israeli forces shot and killed 57 Palestinians and injured more than 2,700 during mass protests Monday along the Gaza border, while just a few mile...

WASHINGTON - Senate candidate Mitt Romney of Utah says a prominent Baptist minister shouldn’t be giving the prayer that opens the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem because he’s a “religious ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Pakistani security officials say militants have ambushed an army vehicle on patrol in a northwestern tribal region, killing seven soldiers before fleeing back to neighbour...

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - The U.N. says an alternative way of getting fuel to Gaza must be found urgently, warning of dwindling supplies needed to run hospitals, pick up garbage, pump water and tr...

BAGHDAD - A populist coalition organized by influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr emerged as the front-runner Monday with more than half the vote counted in Iraq’s national elections. Partia...

PAHOA, Hawaii - People nixing vacations to Hawaii’s Big island has cost the tourism industry millions of dollars as the top attraction, Kilauea volcano, keeps spewing lava. Cancellations from Ma...

SURABAYA, Indonesia - The Latest on the series on bomb attacks in Indonesia (all times local): 12:55 p.m. Indonesia’s national police chief says the suicide bombing Monday morning at police head...

LUCKNOW, India - Powerful winds and rainstorms swept across a crowded swath of northern India, demolishing houses, uprooting trees and killing at least 43 people as the winds turned the skies brown wi...

JERUSALEM - The Latest on the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and Palestinian protests (all times local): 3 p.m. A senior figure in Gaza’s ruling Hamas group says mass border protests a...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - An expedition organizer says an Australian mountaineer has scaled Mount Everest to become the fastest to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents. Steve Plain scaled Everest ...