Category Archives: Canadian Press

HASSA, Turkey - Intense fighting flared Monday as Turkish troops and their allies advanced on a Kurdish enclave in northwestern Syria, the third day of Ankara’s offensive to oust a U.S.-allied K...

FRANKFURT - Two companies plan a network of fast-charging stations for battery-powered cars in Europe that they say will help drivers of electric vehicles travel in and among the region’s main c...

PARIS - Rats are increasingly scrambling from Paris sewers to the surface - and city officials and rat-catchers are scrambling for ways to get rid of them. A creepy video of hundreds of rats wriggling...

MOSCOW - The head of the Russian television channel RT wants the United States to live up to its ideals of freedom of speech. Yet American journalists attuned to those principles have not defended the...

KABUL - Survivors of the Taliban attack on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel gave harrowing accounts on Monday of the 13-hour weekend standoff that claimed 18 lives, including 14 foreigners. The si...

TOKYO - More than two decades after poison gas attacks in Tokyo’s subways killed 13, the stage has shifted to the execution of 13 people convicted in the crime. When they will be sent to the gal...

DAVOS, Switzerland - In Davos this week, participants can experience “a day in the life of a refugee.” Or hear about ways to uphold the Paris climate accord and promote free trade. Or rub ...

BERLIN - A German nurse who is already serving a life sentence for two murders has been charged with killing 97 more patients over several years at two hospitals in northwestern Germany, prosecutors s...

HALIFAX - Tesla Inc. is building fast-charging stations for its electric vehicles in Atlantic Canada, opening up the East Coast to road trippers with the California automaker’s high-end plug-in ...

Four stories in the news for Monday, Jan. 22 --- WOMEN’S MARCH TWEET SPARKS DEBATE IN ALBERTA A minister in Alberta’s NDP government has chastised a tweet by the Opposition’s communi...