Category Archives: Canadian Press

CALAIS, France - French authorities bused all unaccompanied children - 1,616 of them - out of Calais’ sprawling migrant slum on Wednesday, taking them to special processing centres in one of the...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A showdown over shawarma has come to Dubai. A state-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday that nearly half of all shawarma stands in Dubai either will be shut down or hav...

DES MOINES, Iowa - An Iowa man jailed Thursday in the killings of two police officers was facing intense money problems, had been found by a judge to hit and financially exploit his mother and was ord...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi newspaper is reporting that a prince has been flogged over an undisclosed crime, just weeks after another was executed for killing a man in a melee. The daily newspaper ...

LAS VEGAS - Nevada already has legal brothels, round-the-clock casinos and a coy catchphrase declaring that “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” If voters approve, the state could soon...

HAGATNA, Guam - The new leader of the Catholic Church in Guam will immediately assume all responsibilities in the archdiocese while its suspended archbishop faces a church trial for allegedly sexually...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A Pakistani prosecutor says a court has dismissed a bail plea from National Geographic’s famed green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl,’ arrested a week ago over allegedly forge...

MOSCOW - The Russian president on Wednesday offered a new unilateral humanitarian pause for Syria’s war-ravaged Aleppo, urging rebels to use it to leave the city’s eastern, besieged distri...

TOKYO - The head of a Tokyo government cost-cutting panel has criticized 2020 Olympic organizers for not co-operating on recommendations designed to reduce spiraling expenses for the games. The panel ...

DADE CITY, Fla. - Donald Trump could draw the United States into nuclear war, Hillary Clinton warns. Clinton would plunge the country into a constitutional crisis, he says. As the caustic presidential...