Category Archives: Canadian Press
Quebec premier shuffles cabinet after transport minister resignation
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has shuffled his cabinet following the resignation of his transport minister Friday afternoon. Laurent Lessard will replace Jacques Daoust as transport minister, whil...
Aug 20, 2016

Flood-weary Louisiana cleans house while search continues
ST. AMANT, La. - Flood-weary residents cleaned out houses Saturday as search parties went door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding so powerful in some cases it disturbed the de...
Aug 20, 2016

6 Notre Dame players arrested, 1 for tackling policeman
INDIANAPOLIS - Notre Dame cornerback Devin Butler was jailed Saturday after a police officer said the player punched and slammed him to the ground outside a bar, and five teammates were arrested in a ...
Aug 20, 2016
Girl kills seagull at beach, Quebec father faces charge
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - Police in the Delaware resort of Rehoboth Beach say a Canadian man has been charged for allowing his daughter to allegedly lure a seagull to a hole in the sand, where she killed...
Aug 20, 2016
World's largest Muslim bloc concerned by Kashmir violence
ISLAMABAD - The world’s largest bloc of Muslim countries expressed concern Saturday over alleged human rights violations in Indian-controlled Kashmir, which has seen weeks of deadly clashes betw...
Aug 20, 2016

Turkish PM says US should 'speed up' cleric's extradition
ISTANBUL - Turkey wants the United States to speed up procedures for extraditing U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it accuses of orchestrating last month’s violent coup attempt, the...
Aug 20, 2016
Survivors of Libyan shipwreck report 7 Syrians dead
MILAN - The U.N. refugee agency says that survivors of a shipwreck off Libya have reported at least seven people, including three children, died when the small wooden boat carrying 27 people, mostly S...
Aug 20, 2016
Officials: Zika won't hurt South Florida tourism in long run
MIAMI - The discovery of Zika-carrying mosquitoes in South Florida certainly isn’t ideal for tourism, but local officials and business leaders are confident the long-term impact on the tourism i...
Aug 20, 2016
Kerry heading to Africa for talks on counterterrorism
NAIROBI, Kenya - Secretary of State John Kerry will be in Africa on Monday for talks in Kenya and Nigeria on countering terrorism before visiting Saudi Arabia to discuss the conflict in Yemen. Kerry f...
Aug 20, 2016

Quebecer makes it far in international public-speaking competition
MONTREAL - Raymond Brisebois’s 16-year-old daughter was struck and killed by a train in 2012 but he was never able to tell her one last time he loved her because he kept putting off the phone ca...
Aug 20, 2016