Category Archives: Canadian Press
College student brings Hollywood stars to tears at breakfast
LOS ANGELES - It wasn’t Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Lawrence who got the most rousing applause at the Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment breakfast on Wednesday. It was a col...
Dec 6, 2017
Son of slain black man wants life in prison for ex-officer
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The son of a black motorist who was shot to death by a white former police officer asked a judge Wednesday to hand down the stiffest sentence possible: life in prison. Clutching a p...
Dec 6, 2017
N. Korea says war is inevitable as allies continue war games
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea says a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula has become a matter of when, not if, as it continued to lash out at a massive joint military exercise between the Uni...
Dec 6, 2017
Trump Jr. avoids questions about talks with father
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump Jr. refused to tell lawmakers about conversations he had with his father regarding a 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer after emails detailing the meeting had bec...
Dec 6, 2017
Bolivia lawmakers vote to ease right abortion restrictions
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivian lawmakers voted Wednesday to ease the country’s tight restrictions on abortions, shrugging aside opposition from religious groups. The Legislative Assembly vote will a...
Dec 6, 2017
S. Korea human rights body urges probe of abuse of vagrants
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A South Korean commission on Thursday urged lawmakers to investigate the enslavement and mistreatment of thousands of people at a vagrants’ facility during the 1970s ...
Dec 6, 2017
Clown in Congress: Brazil's Tiririca says he won't run again
RIO DE JANEIRO - A clown elected twice to Brazil’s Congress under the slogan “It can’t get any worse” apparently feels that it did. He says he is too embarrassed by his fellow ...
Dec 6, 2017
Trump move on Jerusalem highlights Arab divisions
BEIRUT - Muslims across the Middle East warned Wednesday of disastrous consequences after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but in a region more divided than ever,...
Dec 6, 2017
Yugoslav war crimes court wins praise from many - not Russia
The U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, which is closing after 24 years, drew praise Wednesday from its president, the U.S. and many Security Council members - but not from Russia, which c...
Dec 6, 2017
India to phase out 'petcoke' imports after AP investigation
NEW DELHI - India’s government says it plans to phase out imports of a dirty fuel known as petroleum coke, or “petcoke,” after an Associated Press investigation found U.S. oil refine...
Dec 6, 2017