Category Archives: Canadian Press

TOKYO - The Olympic stadium in Tokyo is taking shape with 22 cranes on site and the spectator stands being installed after 10 months of underground foundation work. With its completion deadline just o...

Police say a woman’s torso has been found in Lake Ontario east of Toronto. Durham Region police say the remains were found by a fisherman near the Oshawa Harbour around 8:30 p.m. Monday. They sa...

WATERTON, Alta. - Fire crews halted the spread of a wildfire into the Waterton Lakes National Park townsite on Tuesday, but they were not able to save the visitor’s centre or stop the flames fro...

ATLANTA - With Irma having weakened into inland rainstorms, Floridians are beginning a mass migration back to a battered, water-logged state where millions remains without power. But traffic maps, soc...

ATLANTA - Worried relatives, generous volunteers, frantic neighbours, even medical providers are turning to social media now that Hurricane Irma wiped out electricity and cell service to communities a...

SWEETWATER, Fla. - A grinding chorus of chain saws and generators kicked in quickly after Hurricane Irma’s roar left Sweetwater, a small, mostly Spanish-speaking town west of Miami where streets...

ALEPPO, Syria - “Aleppo is in my eyes,” says a billboard depicting President Bashar Assad looking out over two men and a boy repaving the main Saadallah al-Jabiri Square - once a front lin...

AMMAN, Jordan - Syrian opposition activists and witnesses said Tuesday that several thousand Syrians stranded on the border with Jordan have fled one makeshift camp for another, running from shelling ...

BERLIN - The European Union’s counter-terrorism co-ordinator says the Islamic State group still has about 2,500 fighters from Europe among its dwindling ranks. Gilles de Kerchove told German dai...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for 63 people, mostly ex-intelligence agency workers, for alleged ties to the U.S.-based Muslim cl...