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Ukrainian anti-corruption raid targets Zelenskyy's prominent chief of staff
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Anti-corruption units have raided the home, and reportedly also the office, of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff, Andrii Yermak. The unprecedented searches ...
Nov 28, 2025 Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak talks to the press at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
Hodgson says it's 'premature' to draw conclusions about B.C. tanker ban fate
Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says it's "premature" for anyone to draw conclusions regarding the potential removal, or adjustment, of the West Coast tanker ban, since no pi...
Nov 28, 2025 Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Liberal MPs say party remains united after Guilbeault resigns from cabinet
Several Liberal MPs say the party remains united after Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault resigned from cabinet in response to the federal government's new pact with Alberta on a proposed pipeline. In...
Nov 28, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Steven Guilbeault as he arrives to deliver remarks at the Liberal caucus meeting in Edmonton on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
Afghan national charged in Guard ambush shooting drove across US to carry out attack, officials say
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Afghan national who worked with the CIA in his native country and immigrated to the U.S. in 2021 drove from Washington state to shoot two West Virginia National Guard members depl...
Nov 27, 2025
Sexual extortion of children for money is on the rise: Financial intelligence agency
Canada's financial intelligence agency is warning of an increase in cases of sexual extortion of children for profit - acts that often are linked to organized crime. This type of online blackmail invo...
Nov 27, 2025 A man uses a computer keyboard in Toronto in this Sunday, Oct. 9, 2023, photo illustration. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy
At least 75 dead as Hong Kong firefighters battle burning towers for a second day
HONG KONG (AP) - Firefighters battled a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong for the second day on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 75 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's mo...
Nov 27, 2025
Hong Kong Canadians reeling after deadly highrise inferno
VANCOUVER - Canadians with roots in Hong Kong have been watching in horror at news of the fire that tore through seven highrise towers in the Chinese special administrative region, leaving dozens dead...
Nov 26, 2025
Hong Kong's deadliest high-rise fire in years leaves at least 36 dead, 279 reported missing
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's deadliest fire in years blazed through high-rise apartment buildings into the night Wednesday as the city's leader confirmed at least 36 people, including a firefighter, h...
Nov 26, 2025 Firefighters try to extinguisha fire that broke out at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories, Wednesday, Nov. 26 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
B.C. coastal First Nations vow oil pipeline to coast 'will never happen'
The president of the Coastal First Nations in British Columbia says an oil pipeline linking Alberta to the province's north coast "will never happen." In a news release issued Wednesday morning, Maril...
Nov 26, 2025 Heiltsuk Nation Chief Marilyn Slett attends a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Taiwan puts $40 billion toward buying US weapons and building a defense dome
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday announced a special $40 billion budget for arms purchases, including to build an air defense system with high-level detection and int...
Nov 26, 2025 Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te delivers a speech during the inauguration ceremony of M1A2T Abrams Main Battle Tanks in Hsinchu County, Taiwan, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
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