Author Archives: The Canadian Press

LONDON - A painting by Winston Churchill that is a piece of both political and Hollywood history is coming up for auction. Christie's auction house said Monday that the Moroccan landscape "Tower of th...

LONDON - Prince Harry on Monday accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of British tabloid The Mail on Sunday and its online version, MailOnline, in a libel lawsuit relating to articles abo...

NEW YORK - The erratic trading in shares of underdog companies like GameStop that turned markets combustible last week appears to have migrated to commodities, sending silver prices surging to an eigh...

MOSCOW - A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years, finding that he violated the terms of his probation while recuperating in Germa...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told Republican senators during a two-hour meeting Monday night he's unwilling to settle on an insufficient coronavirus aid package after they pitched their slimmed do...

WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump announced a new impeachment legal defence team just one day after it was revealed that he had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys with just over a w...

KABUL - Taliban attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul are on the rise, with increasing targeted killings of government officials, civil-society leaders and journalists, a report by a U.S. watchdog sa...

During one of the most politically divisive years in recent memory, the number of active hate groups in the U.S. actually declined as far-right extremists migrated further to online networks, a move t...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australian media companies admitted in court Monday they breached a gag order in publishing references to Cardinal George Pell's since-overturned convictions in 2018 for child se...

BERLIN - Beer sales in Germany were down 5.5% last year, dragged lower by lengthy closures of bars and restaurants in the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Monday. German-based breweries and ...