Category Archives: Canadian Press
South Africa's famed ANC risks split in choosing new leader
JOHANNESBURG - The stakes for Africa’s oldest liberation movement have rarely been higher. As thousands of delegates from the ruling African National Congress party meet this weekend to choose a...
Dec 14, 2017
UN chief: Iran may be defying UN on missiles, OK on nukes
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that Iran may be defying a U.N. call to halt ballistic missile development even as it complies with the nuclear deal with six world powers. The U.N. chief...
Dec 14, 2017
Consent to kids at heart of gay couple's child support case
KANEOHE, Hawaii - Attorneys for a divorced lesbian couple fighting over child support in a closely watched case agreed Thursday that consent to having a baby together is a crucial issue but disagreed ...
Dec 14, 2017
Opponents of refugee quotas give money to bolster EU borders
BRUSSELS - The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia announced Thursday that they plan to spend around 35 million euros ($41 million) to beef up European Union borders as they come under pressu...
Dec 14, 2017
South Korean President Moon in China on visit to repair ties
BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping told his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in on Thursday that Beijing wants to improve ties that have nosedived over China’s objections to the deployment ...
Dec 14, 2017
Zimbabwe ruling party seals Mugabe's fall from grace
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Breaking into cheers and song, Zimbabwe’s ruling party on Friday sealed the fate of Robert Mugabe, a man they had revered for decades but removed from power in dramatic scenes...
Dec 14, 2017
Lawmaker who spun history of heroics ends life in suicide
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The Kentucky lawmaker’s resume included enough material for an award-winning memoir: He was a peacekeeper at the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, a White House chaplain to thre...
Dec 14, 2017
Louisiana delays parole hearing for 71-year-old inmate
BATON ROUGE, La. - In 1963, Henry Montgomery killed a sheriff’s deputy less than two weeks after his 17th birthday. A half-century later and nearly two years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled i...
Dec 14, 2017
Fears rise over LGBT discrimination in conservative Paraguay
ASUNCION, Paraguay - Mariana Sepulveda has been stabbed on the street, detained by police and expelled from her high school - all for being transgender in Paraguay, one of the most sexually conservati...
Dec 14, 2017
Rubio defection threatens GOP's slim majority on tax bill
WASHINGTON - The Republicans’ razor-thin margin for driving their sweeping tax package through the Senate was thrown into jeopardy Thursday when GOP Sen. Marco Rubio declared he will vote agains...
Dec 14, 2017