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  • Canada embarks on preclearance pilot project on U.S. side of Quebec/N.Y. land border

    January 12, 2024 - 1:58 PM

    WASHINGTON - Canada is embarking on an effort to test the boundaries of its shared border with the United States, launching a pilot project that would allow northbound land travellers to clear customs while still on U.S. soil.

  • Averting government shutdown, Congress approves temporary funding through the holidays

    November 15, 2023 - 8:24 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Ending the threat of a government shutdown until after the holidays, Congress gave final approval Wednesday night to a temporary government funding package that pushes a confrontation over the federal budget into the new year.

  • Big Mac is coming back: McDonald's to reopen in Ukraine

    August 11, 2022 - 5:40 AM

    CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald's will start reopening some of its restaurants in Ukraine in the coming months, a symbol of the war-torn country's return to some sense of normalcy and a show of support after the American fast-food chain pulled out of Russia.

  • Japan ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated while giving speech

    July 08, 2022 - 3:25 AM

    NARA, Japan (AP) — Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation's most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said.

  • Israel strikes Gaza home of Hamas leader, destroys AP office

    May 15, 2021 - 3:05 PM

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel slammed the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on Saturday, in a dramatic escalation that included bombing the home of a senior Hamas leader, killing a family of 10 in a refugee camp — most of them children — and pulverizing a high-rise that housed The Associated Press and other media.

  • Trump signs $2.2T stimulus after swift congressional votes

    March 27, 2020 - 9:10 PM

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed an unprecedented $2.2 trillion economic rescue package into law after swift and near-unanimous action by Congress to support businesses, rush resources to overburdened health care providers and help struggling families during the deepening coronavirus epidemic.

  • UK leader May hits back on Brexit plan; pound falls

    September 21, 2018 - 11:30 AM

    LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May accused the European Union on Friday of creating an "impasse" in divorce negotiations by bluntly rejecting her blueprint for Brexit, sending the value of the pound falling as worries about a chaotic U.K. exit from the EU soared.

  • Ontario to tackle ticket scalper bots, home warranties, real estate rules

    October 06, 2017 - 5:17 AM

    TORONTO - Ontario is seeking to strengthen consumer protection rules around home warranties, ticket sales, real estate practices, and travel services in an omnibus bill introduced Thursday.

  • Peru Attorney General seeks arrest of ex-President Toledo

    February 07, 2017 - 1:10 PM

    LIMA, Peru - A major corruption scandal shaking politicians across Latin America continued spreading across the region Tuesday as Peru's attorney general sought the arrest of former President Alejandro Toledo on charges of laundering of assets and influence trafficking.

  • In town of Jesus' birth, craftsmen take on Chinese knockoffs

    December 21, 2016 - 8:32 AM

    BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territory - Christmas is approaching and pilgrims and tourists have begun to arrive, crowding the souvenir shops that line the narrow streets and alleys of Bethlehem, the biblical town revered as Jesus' birthplace.
  • Reid Hamer-Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, Nov. 1, 2022. JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
    OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like the guy, more for what he could represent than wh
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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