Category Archives: Canadian Press
Macron visits Calais to preview toughened migrant policies
CALAIS, France - President Emmanuel Macron travelled Tuesday to Calais, the epicenter of France’s migrant crisis, to lay out a new approach to immigration: help for those who want to stay, expul...
Jan 16, 2018
Glowing red lava causes more to flee from Philippine volcano
MANILA, Philippines - Glowing-red lava spurted in a fountain and flowed down the Philippines’ most active volcano on Tuesday in a stunning display of its fury that has sent more than 34,000 vill...
Jan 16, 2018
Parents say college student killing may have been hate crime
SANTA ANA, Calif. - The parents of a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student killed and buried in a California park said Tuesday that the killing may have been a hate crime against their gay so...
Jan 16, 2018
Bangladesh, Myanmar aim to finish Rohingya return in 2 years
BANGKOK - Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed they will try to complete the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled from violence in Myanmar within two years, Banglad...
Jan 16, 2018

AP News Guide: Big decisions await Congress on immigration
WASHINGTON - Before a potential government shutdown at midnight Friday night, a host of leftover Washington business is bottled up in Congress, waiting on a deal to prevent the deportation of young im...
Jan 16, 2018

Carillion Canada says it's soldiering on despite U.K. parent's financial woes
TORONTO - A spokesman for the Canadian subsidiary of insolvent British construction giant and state contractor Carillion says it’s business as usual in Canada despite the parent company’s ...
Jan 16, 2018

House panel subpoenas Bannon in Russia probe showdown
WASHINGTON - Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Tuesday refused to answer a broad array of queries from the House Intelligence Committee about his time working for President Donald Tr...
Jan 16, 2018

Liberal MPs urge dropping criminal penalties for all illicit drug use
OTTAWA - Even as Justin Trudeau prepares to deliver on his promise to legalize recreational marijuana, Liberal MPs are pushing the government to eliminate criminal penalties for simple possession and ...
Jan 16, 2018

Inmate convicted of giving fatal buttocks injection dies
JACKSON, Miss. - A Mississippi inmate convicted of giving fatal and illicit silicone buttocks injections to a woman has died at age 58. An autopsy is to be conducted on the remains of inmate Tracy Lyn...
Jan 16, 2018
EU chief urges Britain to change its mind over Brexit
BRUSSELS - European Union Council President Donald Tusk on Tuesday urged Britain to change its mind about leaving the bloc next year, as time to conclude a Brexit agreement runs short and EU leaders a...
Jan 16, 2018