Category Archives: Canadian Press

LONDON - Brexit-driven cracks in Britain’s political party system yawned wider Wednesday, as three pro-European lawmakers quit the ruling Conservatives to join a new centrist group of independen...

OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria - U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the group to Iraq, an Iraqi security official said Thursday, marking the ...

CAIRO - Egypt on Wednesday executed nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of the country’s top prosecutor, security officials said. The nin...

MOSCOW - Pavel Otdelnov recalls how as a child he saw his mother boil his parents’ bedding every day. His father worked in the factories of Dzerzhinsk, the centre of Soviet chemical manufacturin...

VATICAN CITY - If Pope Francis needed a concrete example to justify summoning church leaders from around the globe to Rome for a tutorial on clergy sex abuse, Sister Bernardine Pemii has it. The nun, ...

BEIJING - China said Wednesday it backs Tanzania’s sentencing of a Chinese woman labeled the “ivory queen” to 15 years in jail for smuggling elephant tusks, and reaffirmed its opposi...

Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Feb. 20 --- MEMORIAL HELD FOR SYRIAN CHILDREN KILLED IN FIRE Dozens of people gathered outside the charred remnants of a suburban Halifax home Tuesday night to ...

KANO, Nigeria - As emergencies go, it has a catchy tune. Faced with a Nigerian election that could spiral into violence, some in the popular film industry known as Kannywood gathered this week to shoo...

HALIFAX - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was among the hundreds of people who gathered in Halifax’s main square Wednesday night in support of a Syrian refugee family that lost seven children in a...

OTTAWA - The Liberals used their majority Wednesday to defeat an opposition motion calling for a public inquiry into allegations that the Prime Minister’s Office pressured Jody Wilson-Raybould t...