Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canseco makes pitch for chief of staff job in tweet to Trump
NEW YORK - Jose Canseco (kan-SAY’-koh) is ready to take a swing at politics. The former major league slugger has made his pitch for a big job at the White House, tweeting Wednesday to President ...
Dec 13, 2018
Barack Obama receives RFK Human Rights award at NYC gala
NEW YORK - Former President Barack Obama was honoured with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award at a gala in midtown Manhattan Wednesday evening. “I’m not sure if you...
Dec 13, 2018
French hunt for possible accomplices of Strasbourg attacker
STRASBOURG, France - French police have killed the man who they believed attacked Strasbourg’s Christmas market but investigators kept digging Friday for possible accomplices in a city known for...
Dec 13, 2018
Israel launches West Bank crackdown after Palestinian attack
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - Israel’s military launched a West Bank manhunt Thursday, setting up checkpoints and blocking roads, after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli soldiers at a ...
Dec 13, 2018
Egyptian novel explores Christians under controlling church
CAIRO - Shady Lewis Botros says his recently published novel - “Ways of the Lord” - can be broadly viewed as an attempt to answer one question: What it’s like to be a Christian in Eg...
Dec 13, 2018
Trump's new Africa strategy takes sharp aim at China, Russia
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Thursday announced a sharp refocus of its Africa strategy to counter what it called the “predatory” practices of China and Russia, which are “...
Dec 13, 2018
Pelosi's triumph: A reminder why she's set to be speaker
WASHINGTON - It has been quite a week for Nancy Pelosi. The televised meeting with President Donald Trump. The deal with restless Democrats to secure their votes to become House speaker. The fashion s...
Dec 13, 2018
Mexican authorities say body of missing Quebec woman found near resort
MONTREAL - Mexican authorities say they have found the body of a missing Quebec woman whose partner returned to the province alone and promptly committed suicide. Christine St-Onge hadn’t been h...
Dec 13, 2018
UK PM May says she will leave by 2022 election
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed that she will step down before the country holds its next scheduled national election in 2022. Arriving at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursda...
Dec 13, 2018
Biographical sketches of 2 Canadians detained in China
BEIJING - Two Canadian citizens were detained in China recently after Canada seized a Chinese business executive wanted by the U.S. over allegations of deceptive banking practices and breaking sanctio...
Dec 13, 2018