Category Archives: Canadian Press

BUYSSCHEURE, France - It is early afternoon on a spring day in 1944. On a French farm 20 miles from the English Channel, two young brothers tend the cows - perhaps they goof off a bit - as their fathe...

KENNER, La. - Police in Louisiana say a stranger with a machete tried to snatch two children from their mothers inside a Walmart. Kenner police describe the case in a Facebook post. They say 33-year-o...

TORONTO - Nearly three-quarters of Canadian Facebook users say they will make at least some change to how they use the social media platform in the wake of a data mining scandal. A survey by Angus Rei...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Police in Zimbabwe are investigating a case of alleged ivory smuggling linked to the wife of former leader Robert Mugabe, a police spokeswoman said Monday. Authorities opened an inv...

KANADAHAR, Afghanistan - The U.S. military has been flying UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter missions in Afghanistan for years, but the storied aircraft will soon take to the country’s battlefields ma...

Mexico City has existed in one form or another since the Aztecs settled here in 1315, but the colonial city founded by the Spanish with a grid system of streets was born out of the bloody conquest of ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on companies across the globe to punish illicit trade with nuclear-armed North Korea, yet Myanmar, which is suspected of acquiring ballistic...

JOHANNESBURG - During a regular visit, Sophie Mangena was shocked to find that her mother with dementia had been transferred from the psychiatric facility without so much as a phone call to the family...

NEW YORK - Some of Wall Street’s heaviest hitters are stepping into the national debate on guns as investment firms ask firearms makers what they are doing about gun violence. The firms speak so...

BANGKOK - Ride-hailing giant Uber is selling its business in Southeast Asia to regional rival Grab while gaining a robust stake in the fast-growing ridesharing, food delivery and financial services bu...