Category Archives: Canadian Press
Storm brings record rainfall, snow to Southern California
LOS ANGELES - Crews were busy Friday assessing damage and cleaning up after a storm that brought record rainfall to Los Angeles, snowfall to northern elevations, snarled traffic and forced evacuations...
Dec 07, 2018
Ebola spreads to major Congo city as vaccines a concern
DAKAR, Senegal - The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city in eastern Congo, as health experts worry whether the stock of an experimental vaccine will stand up to the dem...
Dec 07, 2018
Democratic 2020 campaign revving up quickly
NEW YORK - Democrats are hitting fast forward. The first major presidential campaign announcements could come before year’s end. The Democratic National Committee plans to announce a debate fram...
Dec 07, 2018
Merkel ally becomes German conservative party's leader
HAMBURG - Angela Merkel’s centre-right party elected an ally of the longtime German chancellor as its new leader on Friday, opting for continuity and experience as it handed her the challenge of...
Dec 07, 2018
China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side
BEIJING - China was preparing to launch a ground-breaking mission early Saturday to soft-land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambitions as a spac...
Dec 07, 2018
Clashing views colour future of stalled N.Korea nuclear talks
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - To hear a beaming Donald Trump at his June summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, the solution to North Korea’s headlong pursuit of nuclear weapons, a foreign policy n...
Dec 07, 2018
Brazil future unclear amid opposing ideologies of ministers
RIO DE JANEIRO - With his inauguration just weeks away, Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is assembling a Cabinet of ministers with starkly different views on key issues like climate change, th...
Dec 07, 2018
Japan OKs divisive bill allowing more foreign workers
TOKYO - Japanese lawmakers early Saturday approved government-proposed legislation allowing hundreds of thousands of foreign labourers to live and work in a country that has long resisted accepting ou...
Dec 07, 2018
Ex-major leaguers Valbuena, Castillo die in Venezuela crash
CARACAS, Venezuela - Former major league players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo were killed in a car crash in Venezuela caused by highway bandits who then robbed them, officials said Friday. The 33-y...
Dec 07, 2018
Carbon monoxide poisonings in B.C. prompt warning about detectors
VANCOUVER - A senior paramedic in British Columbia is encouraging homeowners to buy carbon monoxide detectors and inspect their appliances following a spike in poisonings in the past week. Leon Barano...
Dec 07, 2018