Category Archives: Canadian Press

CANNES, France - Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has called on the Iranian government to allow his countryman and fellow director Jafar Panahi to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Panahi has been barr...

BOSTON - Former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme has been “no angel” but played no role in the 1993 killing of a nightclub owner, the aging’s mobst...

WASHINGTON - Freed after more than a year in prison, three Americans flew homeward from North Korea late Wednesday toward a big middle-of-the-night celebration featuring President Donald Trump - the l...

LOS ANGELES - New video released by police Tuesday shows officers joking with three black people considering suing over what they say was an excessive response to a racially motivated 911 call in Sout...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran’s other rivals have long wanted to scuttle the nuclear deal, which they see as undermining the strategy they say the world should be t...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Unlike his dictator father, who famously shunned air travel, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un jetted off to the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian this week, becoming the f...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A riot at a police detention centre near Indonesia’s capital left five officers and a prisoner dead and another officer held hostage Wednesday. The Islamic State group said ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s CIA nominee said Wednesday at her confirmation hearing that she doesn’t believe torture works as an interrogation technique and that her “strong...

WASHINGTON - On a trip to Morocco last year, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and his staff missed a connecting flight and spent more than 24 hours in Paris because his secur...

SALT LAKE CITY - The Mormon church said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America at the end of next year and place its remaining 425,000 boys into a gospel-focused youth program i...