Category Archives: Canadian Press
'Black Panther' costume designer blazes trail to inspire
LOS ANGELES - Ruth E. Carter is a black woman blazing a trail as a costume designer in a film industry with not many who look like her. But through her upcoming career achievement award and Oscar nomi...
Feb 17, 2019
Iran points to Pakistan after deadly attack on Guard
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament speaker said Sunday that an attack that killed 27 members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard was “planned and carried out from inside Pakistan,̶...
Feb 17, 2019
Fire in slum kills 9 in southeastern Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A devastating blaze raced through a crammed slum in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, killing at least nine people and injuring several others, a fire official said. The fire brok...
Feb 17, 2019
James says B.C. budget puts priorities on NDP's poverty, environment plans
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s finance minister says the budget she tables Tuesday undertakes development of social, environmental and economic initiatives as other provinces across Canada implem...
Feb 17, 2019
'Taking their last breath': IS hides among Syrian civilians
BAGHOUZ, Syria - From a self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group has been knocked back to a speck of land on the countries’ shared border...
Feb 17, 2019
Israeli leader pledges funds for museum for Jewish WWII vets
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday that his government would allocate the necessary funds to complete a long-promised museum honouring Jewish World War II veterans. T...
Feb 17, 2019
State Department: Nauert out as pick for UN ambassador
WASHINGTON - Heather Nauert, picked by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations but never officially nominated, has withdrawn from consideration, the State Departmen...
Feb 17, 2019
Iran pressures Europe to do more to save the nuclear deal
MUNICH - Europeans need to do more than talk if they want to preserve a deal meant to keep Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States, Iran’s for...
Feb 17, 2019
In Brexit limbo, UK veers between high anxiety, grim humour
LONDON - It’s said that history often repeats itself - the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Many Britons feel they are living through both at the same time as their country navigates ...
Feb 17, 2019
Sex abuse survivors to meet with Vatican summit organizers
VATICAN CITY - The organizers of Pope Francis’ summit on preventing clergy sex abuse will meet this week with a dozen abuse victims who have descended on Rome to protest the Catholic Church̵...
Feb 17, 2019