Category Archives: Canadian Press
Official: Hurricane Maria set Puerto Rico back decades
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico’s nonvoting representative in the U.S. Congress said Sunday that Hurricane Maria’s destruction has set the island back decades, even as authorities work...
Sep 25, 2017
Trump's travel ban unlikely to affect North Korea
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - U.S. President Donald Trump’s new restrictions on visitors from several nations are largely symbolic in North Korea’s case, because not many of its citizens vis...
Sep 25, 2017
Saudi festivities stress unity amid political, economic woes
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia is celebrating its National Day with an array of family-friendly festivities, including allowing women to enter the main stadium in the capital, Riyadh, for the fir...
Sep 25, 2017
Two electric linemen lost their wedding rings near Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. - Two linemen who spent days restoring power in the Tampa Bay area had the same unfortunate mishap: They lost their wedding rings. Both were heartbroken, frustrated and hoping for some kin...
Sep 25, 2017
Hurricane Irma floods, causes problems, in one cemetery
IMMOKALEE, Fla. - A cemetery owned and maintained by a Southwest Florida county was hit hard by Hurricane Irma and relatives of the people buried there say some of the caskets have been partially unea...
Sep 25, 2017
EU ups pressure ahead of new round of Brexit talks
BRUSSELS - The European Union on Monday ramped up pressure on Britain ahead of a new round of Brexit talks, warning again that time is running out for Prime Minister Theresa May to clinch a deal. R...
Sep 25, 2017
Myanmar officials: Insurgents killed 45 Hindu villagers
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar officials said Monday they have discovered at least 45 slain Hindus in three mass graves in the Southeast Asian country’s conflict-torn northern Rakhine state. The gove...
Sep 25, 2017
Mexico quake leaves country's historic churches battered
MEXICO CITY - Our Lady of Angels Church has survived several major earthquakes, but Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 shake proved to be the final death knell for the Mexico City building’s historic...
Sep 25, 2017
Who gives the orders? Spain, Catalonia both claim police
BARCELONA, Spain - Catalonia is counting on its regional police force to help carry out a referendum on independence Sunday. Spain says it’s counting on the same force to prevent it. Increasingl...
Sep 25, 2017
Iraq's Kurds vote on independence, raising regional fears
IRBIL, Iraq - Iraqi Kurds voted Monday in a landmark referendum on supporting independence, a move billed by the Kurdish leadership as an exercise in self-determination but viewed as a hostile act by ...
Sep 25, 2017