Category Archives: Canadian Press
Missouri woman accuses fellow Legislature candidate of rape
ST. LOUIS - A woman running for a seat in the Missouri Legislature has accused a fellow Democratic candidate of raping her. Cora Faith Walker told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2dztzc5 ) ...
Oct 01, 2016
Murder suspect extradited from Trinidad and Tobago to face charges in Montreal
Montreal police say a man arrested last year in connection with a string of violent crimes has been extradited from Trinidad and Tobago to Canada. Septimus Neverson is facing 54 charges including murd...
Oct 01, 2016
Suspected militants kill 6 police in Egypt's restless Sinai
EL-ARISH, Egypt - Suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s turbulent Sinai Peninsula ambushed a taxi in which off-duty policemen were travelling back to their units on Saturday, killing five...
Oct 01, 2016
French police clash with protesters backing Calais migrants
CALAIS, France - French police have fired tear gas and water cannons on protesters defending migrants in the northern city of Calais as the government prepares to shut down the city’s notorious ...
Oct 01, 2016
Effort to recognize World War II spies hung up in Congress
MCLEAN, Va. - Spies don’t work for fame or acclaim. But after 75 years, the men and women who served behind the enemy lines in Nazi Germany and the Pacific theatre during World War II wouldnR...
Oct 01, 2016

Russia warns against US attack on Syrian forces
BEIRUT - Russia warned the United States Saturday against carrying out any attacks on Syrian government forces, saying it would have repercussions across the Middle East as government forces captured ...
Oct 01, 2016
Jewish-American ex-sailor, 90, recalls Cyprus internment
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Seventy years later, Murray Greenfield can still remember the anger he felt when he was locked up with hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors in a British detention camp on the Medit...
Oct 01, 2016

Floods' pain still felt 1 year later in rural South Carolina
KINGSTREE, S.C. - A world away from South Carolina’s booming coastal resorts, hundreds of homes remain unrepaired in the county hardest hit by last year’s floods. Now they’re getting...
Oct 01, 2016
Scottish boxer dies after being injured in bout
GLASGOW, Scotland - A Scottish boxer has died after suffering severe bleeding and swelling to his brain during a televised fight. Mike Towell, who was 25, had to be carried from the ring on a stretche...
Oct 01, 2016

Angry Brazilian voters looking to upend political order
SAO PAULO - In Brazil’s biggest city of Sao Paulo, the leading mayoral candidate is a businessman who once fired people on air during a television reality show. In the country’s crown jewe...
Oct 01, 2016