Category Archives: Canadian Press

HANOI, Vietnam - A powerful typhoon that rocked Vietnam has killed at least 44 people, left more than a dozen missing and caused extensive damage to the country’s south-central region ahead of a...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A northern Malaysian state was paralyzed Sunday by a severe storm that led to three deaths and the evacuation of some 2,000 people in the worst flooding in years. Penang, a po...

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia - A police officer testified Monday at the trial of two women accused of killing the half brother of North Korea’s leader that four suspects at large believed to have plotted...

CANBERRA, Australia - Another Australian politician has had his eligibility to sit in Parliament called into question due to a constitutional ban on dual citizens, while the prime minister proposed ma...

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky’s Republican House speaker resigned his leadership position Sunday after acknowledging he settled sexual harassment claims from one of his staffers last month. Jeff Hoo...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Slovakia’s neo-Nazi parliamentary party suffered a blow after its chairman failed to get re-elected as the head of a regional government, according released Sunday. Marian...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia’s heir to the throne is overseeing an unprecedented wave of arrests of dozens of the country’s most powerful princes, military officers, influential bus...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Railroad officials say two sled dogs were killed near Nenana after being hit by a train. KTVA reports that the dogs were hit on Friday as the train sounded its horn and atte...

SANAA, Yemen - The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen closed off the land, sea and air ports to the Arab world’s poorest country early Monday after a rebel-fired ballistic missile targeted Ri...

BRUSSELS - Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and four close separatist allies regained their freedom at the end of a tumultuous Sunday that started when they surrendered in Brussels to face p...