Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada's Andreescu, Bouchard, Shapovalov, Raonic win openers at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu continued her stellar start to the 2019 season, advancing to the second round of the Australian Open after a lengthy, three-set victory over A...
Jan 15, 2019
Death toll in Nairobi attack climbs to 21, plus 5 attackers
NAIROBI, Kenya - The death toll from an extremist attack on a luxury hotel and shopping complex in Nairobi climbed to 21, plus the five militants killed, police said Wednesday in the aftermath of the ...
Jan 15, 2019
VW, Ford team up on pickups, explore deal on electrics
FRANKFURT - Volkswagen and Ford say they’re forming a global alliance in which they will develop commercial vans and medium-sized pickups together while exploring broader co-operation on future ...
Jan 15, 2019
Kim Kardashian confirms she and Kanye expecting 4th child
NEW YORK - Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are expecting their fourth child. Kardashian confirmed the surrogate pregnancy during an appearance Monday on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live with...
Jan 15, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 15
Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Jan. 15 --- SAUDI TEEN GRANTED ASYLUM IN CANADA TO SPEAK TODAY A Saudi teen whose flight from her allegedly abusive family captured global attention will give a p...
Jan 15, 2019
Freeland, McCallum decry China death sentence, tout growing support of allies
Canada shot back at China on Tuesday, branding the death sentence imposed on a British Columbia man as inhumane and flaunting the support of its allies in trying to win the release of two other impris...
Jan 15, 2019
Netflix buys movie made partly at Louisiana Gothic jail
DERIDDER, La. - Netflix has bought the rights to a movie set partly in a southwest Louisiana landmark called the Gothic Hanging Jail . Charlie Shotwell plays the title role in “Eli,” about...
Jan 15, 2019
Canadian Premier League commissioner offers a look at new league ahead of kickoff
TORONTO - The clock is ticking down to the Canadian Premier League kickoff and commissioner David Clanachan acknowledges there is still plenty to do. “I will tell you the world started spinning ...
Jan 15, 2019
ICC judges acquit former Ivory Coast president Gbagbo
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Delivering a stinging defeat to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, judges on Tuesday acquitted former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and former youth minis...
Jan 15, 2019
Spanish rescuers bore tunnel in frantic search for toddler
MADRID - Rescuers in southern Spain are digging a horizontal tunnel in an attempt to reach the bottom of a deep and narrow borehole where they hope to find a 2-year-old toddler, two days after he disa...
Jan 15, 2019