Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Marijuana consumers are likely to have a flood of options when pot becomes legal next summer and now a not-for-profit group is stepping in to help determine which products to trust. The Na...

PARIS - France’s government is deploying nearly 100,000 police and soldiers for the holiday season as fears of extremist attacks remain high. The additional security will focus on Christmas mark...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s president says his government is working with Russia to try and evacuate some 500 people from a besieged, rebel-held Damascus suburb. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporter...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge ruled Saturday that the U.S. military must provide legal counsel to an American citizen who was picked up months ago on the Syrian battlefield and accused of fighting with...

KABUL - A roadside bomb killed seven civilians on Sunday in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, officials said. Haji Salam Khan, a provincial council member, said the blast killed seven civ...

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines - Thousands of villagers in the southern Philippines spent their Christmas morning in emergency shelters Monday as the region dealt with the aftermath of one of the deadliest st...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey has fired 2,756 more people from its public service sector for alleged links to terror groups as it presses ahead with purges launched following last year’s failed milita...

London Zoo has reopened, one day after a fire that killed four meerkats and an aardvark. The zoo said on its website Sunday it will operate normally, including visits with Santa. It says fire experts ...

SEATTLE - A federal judge in Seattle on Saturday partially lifted a Trump administration ban on certain refugees after two groups argued that the policy prevented people from some mostly Muslim countr...

TORONTO - The $17 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw went to a ticket holder in Ontario. There were also five guaranteed prizes of $1 million each up for grabs. Two were claimed ...