Category Archives: Canadian Press

BANGKOK - Thai authorities said Monday they are investigating whether bombings last week at several popular tourist destinations were related to long-term separatist violence in the country’s fa...

MANILA, Philippines - Human rights victims of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ regime petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to block and nullify a government directive to have the...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stayed away Monday from a Tokyo shrine that honours convicted war criminals among the nation’s war dead, a bid to avoid controversy with neighbouring c...

PARIS - The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey bord...

WASHINGTON - Factory activity in New York slowed in early August for the second straight month, and manufacturers in the state cut jobs. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says that its Empire State...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Andre De Grasse proved once again that he can run with the best sprinters in the world. The Canadian flew to a personal best time of 9.91 seconds to take the bronze medal in the men&#...

HOUSTON - Two children were found dead under a neighbour’s house Sunday after their mother matter-of-factly told someone helping her move that she had drowned them in a bathtub, authorities said...

MILWAUKEE - When police identified Sylville Smith as the Milwaukee man shot by an officer Saturday, triggering a violent uprising on the city’s mostly black north side, Chief Edward Flynn cited ...

HOUSTON - Jozy Altidore scored his third goal in four games and Toronto FC played to a 1-1 tie with the 10-man Houston Dynamo on Sunday night in a game postponed Saturday because of rain. Toronto (10-...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Robert and Gwen Arceneaux endured a sleepless night Sunday after noticing floodwater creeping into their home - in a neighbourhood that had never seen water before. They gathered up...