Category Archives: Canadian Press

MOSCOW - Russia’s going crazy for the Olympics. The 1972 Olympics. Even as the Russian team faces up to being barred from next month’s Winter Games for doping offences, audiences are flock...

MONTREAL - An iconic Canadian company with roots in printed telephone directories has shed nearly 18 per cent of its workforce in what may be its final attempt to remain viable in the digital age, say...

BEIRUT - Lebanon’s censorship authorities have effectively banned Steven Spielberg’s newspaper drama, “The Post,” because the American director is on a regional blacklist for s...

LONDON - The death of The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan is not being treated as suspicious, British police said Tuesday. A friend said the singer sounded excited and “full of l...

HALIFAX - A Canadian naval frigate left Halifax Tuesday to continue Canada’s commitment to Operation Reassurance, a NATO standing force meant to deter Russian activity in central and eastern Eur...

COPENHAGEN - Inventor Peter Madsen was charged Tuesday with killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall during a trip on his private submarine, with prosecutors saying he either cut her throat or strangled he...

SYDNEY, N.S. - A Cape Breton man is facing charges after allegedly going on a rampage with a front-end loader and using it to shear off the front of a home. Police say 51-year-old Kevin Albert Morriso...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - An intense apartment fire near Montreal has left as many as 60 people homeless. Investigators believe Monday night’s fire started in a top-floor unit and was sparked by hot coo...

BERLIN - German authorities searched premises linked to 10 suspected Iranian spies following extensive investigations by the country’s domestic intelligence agency, prosecutors said Tuesday. A s...

MITROVICA, Kosovo - A leading Serb politician was shot to death Tuesday near his political party’s offices in northern Kosovo, an attack that raised ethnic tensions in the Balkans and prompted t...