Category Archives: Canadian Press

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamic extremists on Sunday launched an attack on a base for African Union troops in the country’s south, killing four Ugandan peacekeepers, said ...

JERUSALEM - Israel announced a deal with the U.N. on Monday to resettle African migrants in Western nations, but hours later put the agreement on hold. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had announced ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump helped kick off the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday with a “ready,” ”set” and the blow of a whistle. “You ready kids?” the...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge in Detroit after fleeing the South is being briefly displayed in Rhode Island, after a trans-Atlantic journey and the abrupt cancellation of...

SEATTLE - Investigators said Monday they were examining “red flags” in a Washington state family’s past in hopes of explaining why their SUV went off a 100-foot cliff in an apparent ...

LAS VEGAS - John Shuster’s Olympic gold medal spawned a registration rush for Las Vegas Curling, whose slogan is “Where Saints and Sinners Curl Like Winners.” The beginner’s le...

BEIJING - China’s defunct Tiangong 1 space station mostly burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere over the central South Pacific on Monday, Chinese space authorities said. The experimental spa...

AYLESFORD, N.S. - A forbidding, four-legged escapee from a Nova Scotia farm is back in its barn - and destined once again for the slaughterhouse. “The bull is back, the bull is back,” said...

BEIRUT - Syrian state media said Monday that the largest rebel group in the suburbs of Damascus has begun evacuating its last stronghold after seven years of war, but the rebels refused to say whether...

BANGKOK - Malaysian authorities said Monday that they have stepped up patrols to intercept a boat thought to be carrying dozens of people from Myanmar’s beleaguered Rohingya Muslim minority seek...