Category Archives: Canadian Press
In Europe, Tillerson carries on but with diminished standing
BRUSSELS - What do you do when you’re America’s top diplomat, fourth in line to the presidency, and the White House makes it publicly known you’re living on borrowed time? If youR...
Dec 5, 2017
After the lights dim, Rockefeller Christmas trees still give
NEWBURGH, N.Y. - Old Rockefeller Center Christmas trees never really die, they just get built into the wall frames and floor supports of affordable homes. For the past decade, the ornament-laden trees...
Dec 5, 2017
Poll finds many Harvey victims saying they still need help
AUSTIN, Texas - More than three months after Hurricane Harvey walloped Texas, many affected residents say they’re still not getting help they need and President Donald Trump is getting low marks...
Dec 5, 2017
Hard history: Mississippi museums explore slavery, Klan era
JACKSON, Miss. - In the 1950s and ’60s, segregationist whites waved Confederate flags and slapped defiant bumper stickers on cars declaring Mississippi “the most lied about state in the Un...
Dec 5, 2017
Troubled meat market is key supplier for Haiti's capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - La Saline slaughterhouse is a nightmarish panorama of animal blood, body parts and detritus. It’s also an essential part of the economy of the Haitian capital, supplying ...
Dec 5, 2017
South Sudan wants thousands sheltering in UN camps to leave
JUBA, South Sudan - No one thought the desperate experiment would last this long. Nearly four years after the United Nations, in an unprecedented move, threw open its peacekeepers’ camps to civi...
Dec 5, 2017
Australia to ban foreign interference in politics
SYDNEY, Australia - Australia will ban foreign interference in its politics - either through espionage or financial donations - in a move motivated largely by Russia’s alleged involvement in las...
Dec 5, 2017
2 kiwi birds are rare bright spot in grim extinction report
TOKYO - Two types of New Zealand kiwi birds are a rare bright spot in a mostly grim assessment of global species at risk of extinction. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature upgraded ...
Dec 5, 2017
Turkey probes reports dancers seeking asylum in Hungary
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says prosecutors have launched an investigation into 11 members of a folk dancing group who are reportedly seeking asylum in Hungary. Hurriyet new...
Dec 5, 2017
Demolition of abandoned orphanage raises question about fate of ghostly presence
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The demolition of a centuries-old orphanage in Newfoundland is raising a curious question for people who once worked in the building - what will become of the ghost rumoured t...
Dec 5, 2017