The Canadian Press

5 days ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Kwiyeon Ha |Pan Pylas

LONDON (AP) - Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London on Saturday, days after the U.K.'s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition. With unease growing over what the ruling means for the rights of transgender people, protesters came together for what was billed as an "emergency demonstration" in Parliament Square.

6 days ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Jean-Yves Kamale

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - The death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in Congo earlier this week rose to 148 with more than 100 people still missing, officials said Friday. About 500 passengers were on board. The wooden boat capsized Tuesday after catching fire on the Congo River in northwestern Congo, leaving at least 148 people dead and hundreds missing, officials said.

6 days ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Giada Zampano

ROME (AP) - Three tourists were among four people who were killed when a mountain cable car plunged into a ravine south of Naples, an Italian official said Friday. A British woman and an Israeli woman were among the three foreign victims identified since Thursday's accident, said Marco De Rosa, the spokesperson for the mayor of Vico Equense. The fourth victim was the Italian driver of the cable car.

6 days ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Angela Charlton

PARIS (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. may be ready to "move on" from efforts for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is not progress in the coming days. Speaking in Paris after a marathon day of landmark talks among U.S., Ukrainian and European officials, Rubio said the discussions had been constructive and produced an outline for steps toward peace. French officials said a new meeting in the same format is expected in London in the coming days.

6 days ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Morgan Lee

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A unique Holy Week tradition is drawing thousands of Catholic pilgrims to a small adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico, in a journey on foot through desert badlands to reach a spiritual wellspring. For generations, people of the Upper Rio Grande Valley and beyond have walked to reach El Santuario de Chimayó to commemorate Good Friday. Pilgrims, some walking for days, were on track to arrive Friday amid a forecast of cool temperatures and sprinkles of rain.