Category Archives: Canadian Press

Venezuela opposition leader seeks refuge in Chilean embassy
CARACAS, Venezuela - One of Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leaders has sought refuge in the Chilean ambassador’s residence after being targeted for arrest by the Supreme Court. Chil...
Nov 06, 2017

Melania Trump visits Mikimoto, Japan's famed pearl retailer
TOKYO - While her husband chased golf balls with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Japan’s premier course, U.S. first lady Melania Trump focused on a more iridescent sort of orb: pearls. Abe’s ...
Nov 06, 2017
US soldier killed in Afghanistan
KABUL - The Pentagon says a U.S. soldier has died from wounds sustained during an operation in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province. The Defence Department identifies the solider as 33-year-old ...
Nov 06, 2017

Brazile stirs Dem party strife as bellwether gov race nears
WASHINGTON - Democrats are struggling to put the bitter 2016 election behind them as the party’s current chairman and his predecessor bicker over Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign, further...
Nov 06, 2017
'Bleak' assessment of toll of destroying North Korea nukes
WASHINGTON - A ground invasion of North Korea is the only way to locate and destroy, with complete certainty, all components of leader Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons program, according to a Penta...
Nov 06, 2017
UN weather agency: 2017 set to be among top 3 hottest years
GENEVA - The U.N.’s weather and climate agency says 2017 is set to become the hottest year on record aside from those impacted by the El Nino phenomenon. The World Meteorological Organization sa...
Nov 06, 2017

Uber tackles sex assault problem by pledging $5m to training
DETROIT - Uber is pledging $5 million over the next five years to seven organizations that work to prevent sexual assaults, a move aimed at helping the ride-hailing service combat its own problems as ...
Nov 06, 2017
New Argentina probe says prosecutor Nisman was murdered
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A new police report has dramatically revived one of the greatest criminal mysteries in Argentine history - the possible murder of a crusading prosecutor that has roused grave...
Nov 06, 2017

Guardian journalist has book coming on Trump and Russia
NEW YORK - A journalist who has reported on the so-called “Steele Dossier” compiled on Donald Trump has a book coming out Nov. 16. Vintage Books told The Associated Press on Monday that Lu...
Nov 06, 2017
Officials: Possible tornado injures 8 in small Ohio city
CELINA, Ohio - At least eight people have been injured after a possible tornado hit a small Ohio city. Mercer County officials say six people were hurt when a restaurant in Celina (suh-LEYE’-nuh...
Nov 06, 2017