Category Archives: Canadian Press
One meal a day: Yemeni mothers try to feed their families
ADEN, Yemen - The young mother stepped onto the scale for the doctor. Even with all her black robes on, she weighed only 84 pounds - 38 kilograms. Umm Mizrah is pregnant, but starving herself to feed ...
May 03, 2018
Texas officials ignore dioxin spread in Houston waterways
HIGHLANDS, Texas - Evelyn and Jerome Matula were still polka-dancing newlyweds in 1950 when they spotted a half-finished cottage in the woods along the San Jacinto River east of Houston. It seemed idy...
May 03, 2018
German nurse's abduction in Somali capital raises fears
MOGADISHU, Somalia - As night fell, gunmen sneaked into the International Committee of the Red Cross compound in Somalia’s capital through a back door and seized a German nurse and a local colle...
May 03, 2018
Poverty-stricken Armenians pin hopes on opposition
LUSAGYUGH, Armenia - The local tax inspector would visit Alik Stepanyan’s small fishery in an Armenian mountain village every month to collect a bribe. Each time, Stepanyan would hand over 15 to...
May 03, 2018
Group running asylum caravan fears spotlight comes at a cost
TIJUANA, Mexico - The group that organized a monthlong caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States wanted to draw attention to the plight of people fleeing violence. If headlines ...
May 03, 2018
Tough road for Iraq's female candidates in May 12 elections
BAGHDAD - Iraqi women running for parliament this month are undaunted, despite many challenges they face ahead of the May 12 elections - including unprecedented smear campaigns complete with sex video...
May 03, 2018
Trump: 'Stay tuned' for news on Americans detained in NKorea
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is hinting there soon may be an update on the three Americans being held captive in North Korea. Trump tweeted Wednesday: “As everybody is aware, the past Adm...
May 03, 2018
Basque survivors warn against forgetting ETA's violence
MADRID - The disbanding of ETA, the Basque militant group that stained Spain’s return to democracy with blood, arrived as bittersweet news for Inaki Garcia, whose father died at its hands 38 yea...
May 03, 2018
Mahathir wants to rule Malaysia again, shakes up election
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia’s former authoritarian leader Mahathir Mohamad wasn’t invited to the forum that planned to debate whether at well past 90 years he is too old to be prime ...
May 03, 2018
Paulina Porizkova, Ric Ocasek separate after 28 years
NEW YORK - Paulina Porizkova and Ric Ocasek have separated after 28 years of marriage. The model and actress announced on Instagram on Wednesday that she and the Cars rocker have not been a couple ...
May 03, 2018