Category Archives: Canadian Press
Talks adopt 'rulebook' to put Paris climate deal into action
KATOWICE, Poland - Almost 200 nations, including the world’s top greenhouse gas producers, China and the United States, have adopted a set of rules meant to breathe life into the 2015 Paris clim...
Dec 17, 2018
US conducts 6 airstrikes against Somalia extremists, 62 dead
NAIROBI, Kenya - Six U.S. airstrikes that killed more than 60 people in a coastal Somali town were pre-emptive strikes to prevent a major extremist attack, according to a Somali intelligence officer. ...
Dec 17, 2018
Indian troops enforce lockdown to foil Kashmir protest march
SRINAGAR, India - Soldiers and police fanned out across Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday to enforce a security lockdown for a second straight day to stop anti-India protests and foil a call by sepa...
Dec 17, 2018
Germany to compensate hundreds who fled Nazis as children
BERLIN - Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again, the organization that nego...
Dec 17, 2018
May says postponed Brexit vote to be held week of Jan 14
LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday that the postponed vote in Parliament on Britain’s Brexit agreement with the European Union will be held the week of Jan. 14 - more than a month a...
Dec 17, 2018
GOP waits on Trump as clock ticks toward partial shutdown
WASHINGTON - The fight over President Donald Trump’s $5 billion wall funds deepened Monday, threatening a partial government shutdown in a standoff that has become increasingly common in Washing...
Dec 17, 2018
Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate's 'interference' in kingdom
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia issued an unusually strong rebuke of the U.S. Senate on Monday, rejecting a bipartisan resolution that put the blame for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khash...
Dec 17, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 17
Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 17 --- CANADA GETS ACCESS TO SECOND CHINA DETAINEE China has now granted Canada access to both of its recently arrested citizens. Global Affairs says John McC...
Dec 17, 2018
'Are we going to play?' Alberta boy with rare illness no big deal for classmates
ONOWAY, Alta. - Four-year-old Porter Stanley has some new pals at preschool. Russ stands beside him as they manoeuvre toy cars down and around a plastic parking garage. The newest kid in class, Mimi, ...
Dec 17, 2018
Cost of ebooks, audiobooks 'not a sustainable model,' library council says
EDMONTON - If your holiday plans include downloading an audiobook of Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale” from a public library collection, or unwinding with an electronic cop...
Dec 17, 2018