Category Archives: Canadian Press
On historic trip, Turkey's Erdogan meets Muslims in Greece
KOMOTINI, Greece - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with members of Greece’s Muslim minority on Friday, ending a landmark visit to Greece that sharply divided opinion in the country an...
Dec 8, 2017

Russia claims radioactivity spike not due to nuclear plant
MOSCOW - Russian authorities denied Friday that a radioactivity spike in the air over Europe this fall resulted from a nuclear fuel processing plant leak in the Ural mountains, saying their probe has ...
Dec 8, 2017
Director Bryan Singer accused in lawsuit of assaulting teen
SEATTLE - A new lawsuit accuses “Superman Returns” director Bryan Singer of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy at a party on a yacht more than a decade ago. The lawsuit filed in King Co...
Dec 8, 2017
China accuses Australian leader of undermining trust
BEIJING - China on Friday said Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has undermined mutual trust by accusing foreign powers of seeking to influence the country’s political process. Foreign ...
Dec 8, 2017

Vatican prosecutors urged to go after money laundering
VATICAN CITY - European evaluators have praised the Vatican’s financial watchdogs for efficiently flagging suspicious transactions but have once again faulted Vatican prosecutors for failing to ...
Dec 8, 2017
Jordan's plan of shiny city in the desert met by skepticism
MADOUNEH, Jordan - A shiny new city is to arise from Jordan’s desert over the next three decades, potentially rivaling the kingdom’s capital of Amman, a rapidly growing and increasingly un...
Dec 8, 2017
Citizens' group seeks US accountability for CIA renditions
RALEIGH, N.C. - Efforts to prosecute the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and four co-defendants are stalled in part over a lingering issue Americans haven’t yet resolved: tor...
Dec 8, 2017
Trump travel ban to be heard by federal appeals court
RICHMOND, Va. - President Donald Trump’s updated travel ban is headed back to a federal appeals court in Virginia. Thirteen judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be asked to decid...
Dec 8, 2017
Angry worshippers lash out against Trump across Muslim world
JERUSALEM - Large crowds of worshippers across the Muslim world staged anti-U.S. marches Friday, some stomping on posters of Donald Trump or burning American flags in the largest outpouring of anger y...
Dec 8, 2017

Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be buried 76 years later
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The funeral for a recently identified Kentucky sailor who was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 76 years ago is bringing his family together for the first time in decades...
Dec 8, 2017