Category Archives: Canadian Press

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi lawmakers on Thursday passed what would be the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, making the procedure illegal in most cases after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The st...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump raised concerns about the graphic depiction of violence in video games at a White House meeting Thursday with members of the industry and some of their most vocal c...

BAGHDAD - A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed in 2010 and sentenced her to death on terrorism charges, a spokesman said Thursday. The spoke...

TORONTO - Canadian entertainment organizations have responded to the recent flood of sexual misconduct allegations with a new collective code of conduct that is a “living document” with ro...

MADRID - Women across Europe and Asia shouted their demands for equality, respect and empowerment Thursday to mark International Women’s Day, with protesters in Spain launching a 24-hour strike ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka - Buddhist mobs swept through Muslim neighbourhoods in Sri Lanka’s central hills, destroying stores and restaurants and setting homes on fire despite a curfew, a state of emerge...

WASHINGTON - Not long ago, Gary Cohn was laying out an ambitious 2018 economic agenda for the Trump administration. Fresh off the triumph of a sweeping new tax cut, President Donald Trump’s top ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Metal detectors at an Alabama high school were not in use the day a 17-year-old student was killed in a shooting on campus, the district’s superintendent said Thursday. Birmin...

RABAT, Morocco - For 23 years, Khadija says her husband raped her, nearly every day. And her case is far from unique, according to counsellors at the Annajda Center in Rabat, one of over 1,000 associa...

CUCUTA, Colombia - In a cramped hospital near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, migrants fill stretchers bearing the wounds of the deteriorating nation they left behind. An 18-year-old woman rub...