Category Archives: Canadian Press

Tall, bald and tattooed: New Wolfpack recruit Cory Paterson is hard to miss
Cory Paterson will be hard to miss with the Toronto Wolfpack this season. “I’m bald, I’ve got a lot of tattoos and I’m pretty tall,” the 30-year-old forward said with a c...
Jan 24, 2018
Pope's favourite Madonna icon in Rome gets face-lift
ROME - Pope Francis’ favourite icon of the Madonna in Rome has gotten a face-lift. The Vatican on Wednesday unveiled photos of the restored Salus populi Romani, the Byzantine-style painting on w...
Jan 24, 2018

Steps down Jan. 31: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall attends last cabinet meeting
REGINA - Retiring Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall attended his last cabinet and caucus meetings Wednesday and offered some examples beforehand of what he sees as the province’s accomplishments si...
Jan 24, 2018
AP Interview: Richardson resigns from Rohingya refugee panel
YANGON, Myanmar - Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has resigned from an advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a “whitewash and a cheerleading operation” f...
Jan 24, 2018
Trump open to letting Dreamers 'morph into' citizens
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s open to an immigration plan that would provide a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the ...
Jan 24, 2018

No charges for California officer who fired amid teen fight
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors will not charge a Los Angeles police officer who pulled out a gun and fired a warning shot during an off-duty scuffle with a 13-year-old boy that was caught on video and led ...
Jan 24, 2018
US House Speaker meets Saudi king in regional security talks
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is leading a Congressional delegation to the Middle East, meeting on Wednesday with Saudi King Salman in the first regional stop for talks centred o...
Jan 24, 2018

Foreigners linked to Palestinians face Israeli visa troubles
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - American Kate Hamad doesn’t dare leave Ramallah, fearing trouble, even deportation, if stopped at an Israeli checkpoint on the outskirts of the autonomous Pales...
Jan 24, 2018
New Year's resolutions? German couch potatoes say forget it
BERLIN - It’s that time of the year to fulfil those ambitious New Year’s resolutions again: More vegetables, less alcohol, sign up for the gym. But not for Torben Bertram. Fed up with coll...
Jan 24, 2018
Forever scarred, survivors of IS Kabul attacks struggle on
KABUL - For Sayed Mushtaq Hossaini, much of the day last month when an Islamic State suicide bomber struck a seminar at a Shiite cultural centre in the Afghan capital of Kabul remains a blur. The Dec....
Jan 24, 2018