Category Archives: Canadian Press

KABUL - An explosion ripped through a mosque inside an Afghan army base in the country’s volatile eastern Khost province as Friday prayers were drawing to a close, killing 27 soldiers and woundi...

TOKYO - Japanese Emperor Akihito gave thanks Friday to the gods for a bountiful autumn harvest, the last time he will perform one of most important annual palace rites before abdicating next spring. A...

Four stories in the news for Friday, Nov. 23 --- RESPECT BRONCOS DONATION WISHES, COMMITTEE SAYS A committee working on how to distribute $15.2 million raised in a GoFundMe campaign after the Humboldt...

WASHINGTON - Maybe the White House and the Pink Palace have something in common. Inside the rosy sandstone walls of the Ontario legislature, opposition critics were up in arms over a Toronto Star repo...

EDMONTON - Halifax’s proposed CFL franchise now has a name - the Atlantic Schooners. “I’m happy to announce that the 10th team in the CFL will be known as the Atlantic Schooners,R...

HOOVER, Ala. - Protesters on Saturday marched through an Alabama shopping mall where police killed a black man they later acknowledged was not the triggerman in a Thanksgiving night shooting that woun...

PRISTINA, Kosovo - There’s a widespread tradition among many Muslims that it’s better for women to pray at home than in the mosque. But in Kosovo, an old Ottoman-era tradition is bucking t...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The South Korean government must pay 80 million won ($70,700) to three men who were enslaved on salt farms in remote islands off the country’s southwest coast for sev...

Thursday’s Games NFL Chicago 23 Detroit 16 Dallas 31 Washington 23 New Orleans 31 Atlanta 17 — The Canadian Press

KARACHI, Pakistan - Armed separatists stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday, triggering an intense hour-long shootout during which two Pakistani civ...