Category Archives: Canadian Press

On his first visit to the tense but eerily quiet frontier between North and South Korea as U.S. secretary of defence, Jim Mattis conveyed the message he hopes will win the day: Diplomacy is the answer...

INANI BEACH, Bangladesh - Across the ferocious waves and the churning black water, Alam Jafar could see his frantic 7-year-old son gasping for breath, his arms flailing just above the ocean’s su...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea sent back a South Korean fishing boat and its crew who Pyongyang says were detained for crossing the eastern sea border between the rivals. While the North̵...

JOHANNESBURG - Two white South Africans have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to set him on fire. A judge in Mpumalanga province ann...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - More than 100 people in the U.S. have been charged with trying to help the Islamic State, or trying to join it, but Mohamad Khweis stood out because he succeeded. Khweis, 27, the onl...

HONOLULU - Trapped on a storm-battered boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for months, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava were just about out of food and beginning to believe they were completely out...

YANGON, Myanmar - A Myanmar court sentenced two ethnic Kachin Baptist pastors to prison terms on Friday on charges of supporting rebels and defaming the military, their lawyers said. The two were deta...

PHOENIX - A new mouth spray that delivered the powerful painkiller fentanyl to end-stage cancer patients wasn’t selling as well as anticipated. So drug company executives moved quickly to make i...

HAVANA - Cuba on Thursday presented its most detailed defence to date against U.S. accusations that American diplomats in Havana were subjected to mysterious sonic attacks that left them with a variet...

BERLIN - Germany’s bankrupt Air Berlin is operating its last flights, leaving employees facing an uncertain future and - at least for a while - a likely gap in the country’s aviation sched...