Bloomberg Husky Energy Inc. is running into difficulty containing and cleaning up a 1,570-barrel oil pipeline spill that entered the North Saskatchewan River in Canada this week, after rising water levels compromised its initial plan to capture the release. The company responded when a sheen on the water indicated a spill, and discovered it was from the failure of ...

  Ottawa / AFP Largely driven by housing, Canadian consumer prices rose 1.5 percent in June over a year ago, the same rate recorded in May, the Canadian government reported on Saturday. The pace fell short of analyst forecasts, which had predicted a rise in the consumer price index of 1.7 percent. Housing prices were up 1.6 percent after rising ...

  Istanbul / AFP Turkey pushed on Saturday with a sweeping crackdown against suspects accused of taking part in the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, extending police powers to hold people in detention and shuttering over 1,000 private schools. A week after renegade soldiers tried to oust him with guns, tanks and F16s, Erdogan’s government has rounded up ...