Category Archives: Canadian Press

BERLIN - German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against a 22-year-old man accused of joining the Islamic State group in Syria and appearing in propaganda videos. Federal prosecutors said Thur...

KABUL - Soheila Hashemi has hardly slept since a suicide bomber targeted a rally in the Afghan capital last month, killing more than 80 people and wounding scores in the deadliest attack in Kabul sinc...

BEIJING - A top Chinese military officer visited Syria this week in a show of support for President Bashar Assad’s embattled regime, official media reported Thursday, underscoring Beijing’...

HANOI, Vietnam - Two top provincial officials in northern Vietnam have been fatally shot by a fellow official in a rare such incident in a communist country where guns are strictly controlled, state m...

TOKYO - A recent remark by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden that America wrote Japan’s Constitution is raising eyebrows in Japan. A popular front-page column in the national Asahi newspaper said th...

BEIRUT - Syria’s conflict has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to Lebanon, putting a huge strain on the Lebanese economy and its already-crumbling infrastructure. But the five-ye...

STRATHROY, Ont. - A terrorist sympathizer killed in a police takedown in southwestern Ontario last week has been laid to rest. The London Muslim Mosque said in a statement that Driver’s family d...

ISTANBUL - A Qatar Airways passenger jet with over 300 people on board made an emergency landing at Istanbul’s main airport Thursday after an engine caught fire, the airline said, blaming a R...

LONDON - It was a sticky situation. A British hospital discovered it had become home to more than 100,000 bees when patients noticed honey dripping down the walls. Beekeepers were summoned to Rockwood...

NEW YORK - Hillary Clinton said Thursday the nation needs to work together to repair rifts between police officers and the communities they serve and guard against more discord - a veiled reference to...