Category Archives: Canadian Press

COCOA, Fla. - Authorities say a 23-month-old girl managed to stay afloat in an air pocket until rescue crews found her under a boat that overturned on the Indian River in central Florida. The Cocoa Po...

OTTAWA - Elizabeth May will remain Green party leader despite a controversy over the Middle East that divided members and prompted her to consider stepping down. The party will revisit a convention re...

AUSTIN, Texas - A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration’s order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with ...

TRENT HILLS, Ont. - Police have issued a stern warning to an Ontario teenager who called 911 saying she had been forced to go on vacation with her parents. Provincial police say a 15-year-old girl fro...

BENGHAZI, Libya - Libya’s parliament voted “no confidence” in a U.N.-backed government on Monday in a major blow to international efforts to bring unity to the deeply divided North A...

VANCOUVER - With his team battling for its Major League Soccer playoff life, Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Carl Robinson was asked if Tuesday nights’ CONCACAF Champions League match was a distr...

TEHRAN, Iran - Russia has stopped using an Iranian air base for launching airstrikes on Syria for the time being, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday, just hours after the Iranian defe...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey vowed Monday to fight Islamic State militants at home and to “cleanse” the group from its borders after a weekend suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding, an attack th...

BEIRUT - The suicide attacker who detonated his explosives amid an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people, was an Islamic State group child as young as 12 yea...

BAGHDAD - An American demining firm says a British contractor was killed while defusing an explosive device in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi. The firm, Janus Global Operations, announced the death ...