Category Archives: Canadian Press

LANSING, Mich. - Michigan residents still may be allowed to use the state’s long-standing straight-party voting option in the November election after a federal appeals court on Wednesday rejecte...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is looking at making counter-radicalization counselling mandatory for people under anti-terrorism peace bonds, the public safety minister says. Ralph Goodale floated th...

ZURICH - FIFA ethics prosecutors want a six-year ban for a former South Africa Football Association president in a long-running case of fixed friendlies played ahead of the 2010 World Cup by the host ...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Two Texas men who tried to bring hidden guns along on separate Canadian vacations last weekend have lost their guns, been fined and sent home. The men, both retirees in their 50s fr...

BERLIN - Four wheels bad, two wheels good. That’s what German police must have thought when their car got stuck on a narrow path while pursuing a moped-riding suspect. Rather than give up, one o...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - More than 500 passengers and crew were evacuated from a burning ship about a mile off Puerto Rico’s north coast on Wednesday, and many required medical care, though there...

ALEXANDRIA, Ont. - Police have charged an eastern Ontario man after he allegedly kicked and threw rocks at a visually impaired woman’s service dog. Ontario Provincial Police say the incident beg...

BEIRUT - In a move that could reverberate across the Middle East, Iran confirmed Wednesday that Russia is using its territory to launch airstrikes in Syria even as a second wave of Moscow’s bomb...

WASHINGTON - Russia’s use of an Iranian air base to bomb targets in Syria sends a message to Washington as it weighs a military partnership with Moscow: Join us or we’ll look to your enemi...

MANILA, Philippines - An Indonesian sailor swam to freedom Wednesday almost two months after he was abducted from a tugboat in the southern Philippines by Abu Sayyaf militants who threatened to behead...