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UN food agency pauses aid to famine-hit Sudan displacement camp of a half-million people
CAIRO (AP) - The United Nations' food agency says it has temporarily paused aid distribution in Sudan's famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the...
Feb 26, 2025
Canada's Auger-Aliassime reaches quarterfinal at Dubai Tennis Championships
DUBAI - Montreal's Flix Auger-Aliassime rallied past Portugal's Nuno Borges 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals at the Dubai Tennis Championships. Auger-Aliassime broke Borges late i...
Feb 26, 2025
'They were communities': Road Allowance art installation coming to Chapel Gallery
It began with a board Arnolda Dufour Bowes ripped off her father's Punnichy childhood home about 20 years ago. "He wouldn't let me steal anything," said the storyteller and visual artist. She had take...
Feb 26, 2025
Iran accelerates production of near weapons-grade uranium, IAEA says, as tensions with US ratchet up
VIENNA (AP) - Iran has accelerated its production of near weapons-grade uranium as tensions between Tehran and Washington rise after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, a report by the United...
Feb 26, 2025
A court in Bosnia sentences separatist Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik to 1 year in prison
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - A court in Bosnia on Wednesday sentenced Milorad Dodik, the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, to one year in prison and banned him from engaging in politics for si...
Feb 26, 2025
Populist Romanian politician Calin Georgescu is questioned by prosecutors
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A far-right populist who won the first round in Romania's canceled presidential race last year was stopped in traffic by police on Wednesday and taken in for questioning by p...
Feb 26, 2025
Liverpool manager Arne Slot handed 2-match touchline ban for confronting match officials
LONDON (AP) - Liverpool manager Arne Slot was handed a two-match touchline suspension on Wednesday for his conduct toward match officials after the Merseyside derby against Everton. Slot admitted to a...
Feb 26, 2025
In the news today: Liberals advance voting begins, Mark Carney still frontrunner
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Liberals to start casting ballots for leadership With the debates now done, Liberal party members can start ca...
Feb 26, 2025
The Tories say Carney is being 'sneaky' about his assets. What do the rules say?
OTTAWA - In a series of press conferences in recent weeks, the federal Conservatives have demanded that Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney comply with the conflict of interest rules that apply t...
Feb 26, 2025
Ottawa, hospitals argue Montreal brainwashing lawsuit should be dismissed
MONTREAL - Alison Steel was a young child when her mother was sent to Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and his colleagues at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute in the 1950s for treatment of what her daughter ...
Feb 26, 2025
