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  • Planting roots: Quebec cemetery turns former golf course into forest for the deceased

    August 20, 2023 - 4:00 AM

    SAINTE-SOPHIE, Que. - At a new ecological cemetery north of Montreal, there are no gravestones or plaques. Instead, people locate burial sites with the help of a cellphone app.

  • Gunman had 1,800 rounds of ammo as he launched 'murderous barrage of fire' on Fargo police officers

    July 19, 2023 - 5:30 PM

    FARGO, N.D. - A man armed with 1,800 rounds of ammunition, a grenade and other explosives in his car unleashed a "murderous barrage of fire” as he ambushed officers who were investigating a routine crash, killing one and wounding two before a fourth stopped him and thwarted what authorities described as plans for further mayhem, officials said Wednesday.

  • Joly promotes friendship with South Korea as Canada seeks closer ties

    May 16, 2023 - 7:01 AM

    SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - Canada is vying to be the "best of friends" with South Korea, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Tuesday after launching closer talks on economic security with her counterparts in Seoul.

  • As Ukraine marks year of war, leader vows to secure victory

    February 24, 2023 - 1:06 PM

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leader pledged Friday to push for victory in 2023 as he and other Ukrainians marked the somber anniversary of the Russian invasion that upended their lives and Europe's security.

  • Ukrainian president: Burial site contains torture victims

    September 16, 2022 - 3:36 PM

    IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Investigators searching through a mass burial site in Ukraine have found evidence that some of the dead were tortured, including bodies with broken limbs and ropes around their necks, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy said Friday.

  • AP Exclusive: Ukraine recovers bodies from steel-plant siege

    June 06, 2022 - 6:34 PM

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has begun turning over the bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance against Moscow’s invasion.

  • Russian ambassador to Poland hit with red paint

    May 09, 2022 - 4:45 AM

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russia's ambassador to Poland was splattered by red paint thrown at him by protesters opposed to the war in Ukraine, preventing him from paying respects on Monday at a Warsaw cemetery to Red Army soldiers who died during World War II.

  • Evacuations under way in Mariupol; Pelosi visits Ukraine

    May 01, 2022 - 7:00 PM

    ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — A long-awaited evacuation of civilians from a besieged steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was under way Sunday, as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed that she visited Ukraine's president to show unflinching American support for the country's defense against Russia's invasion.

  • Mariupol's dead put at 5,000 as Ukraine braces in the east

    April 06, 2022 - 6:31 PM

    ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of the besieged port city of Mariupol put the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000 Wednesday, as Ukraine collected evidence of Russian atrocities on the ruined outskirts of Kyiv and braced for what could become a climactic battle for control of the country's industrial east.

  • Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine's streets

    April 04, 2022 - 7:25 PM

    BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets, buildings and yards strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, many of them evidently killed at close range.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • 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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