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Canadian prime minister’s wife tested positive coronavirus
CANADA: Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau has tested positive for coronavirus, a spokesman for the prime minister said. The prime minister is in good health with no symptoms, the spokesman said in a statement on Twitter.
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Ottawa dismisses as ‘nonsense’ Iran’s claim few crash victims were Canadian
Canada yesterday dismissed as “nonsense” Tehran’s insistence that only a few Canadians died last week when Iran shot down an airliner and demanded full accountability for what it called a horrible crime. The remarks by Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne were
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Iran has made arrests over plane disaster as protests rage on
Iran said today it had arrested an undisclosed number of suspects accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner, as anti-government demonstrations triggered by the disaster entered the fourth day. Wednesday’s shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines flight
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Canadian PM tells Iran crash vigil he will pursue justice
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his voice sometimes breaking, yesterday told a vigil for some of those killed in an Iranian plane disaster that he would “pursue justice and accountability” for what happened. Iran says it mistakenly shot down a
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‘Our enemy is here’: Iranians demand that leaders quit after plane downed
DUBAI: Protests erupted across Iran for a second day yesterday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame. “They
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Iran to probe black boxes after missile blamed for plane crash
DUBAI: Tehran said yesterday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard, amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by mistake. The crash
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France ready to contribute to Ukrainian jet crash probe
France is available to contribute to the probe on a Ukrainian airliner that crashed on Wednesday in Iran, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said today. “It is important that as much clarity as possible is made and as quickly
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Oil prices fall further as threat of Middle East war recedes
Oil prices dropped today extending days of losses as the threat of war in the Middle East receded and investors switched attention to economic growth prospects and the rise in US crude oil and product inventories. Brent crude LCOc1 fell
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Trudeau: Iran likely downed Ukraine airliner with missiles
A Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was likely brought down by an Iranian missile, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said yesterday, citing intelligence from Canadian and other sources. The destruction of the airliner, which
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Bridal party, academics among Canadian victims of plane crash in Iran
A newlywed couple that had traveled to Iran to get married were among the 63 Canadians killed when their Ukrainian Airlines flight crashed early yesterday, according to friends and community leaders in the western Canadian city of Edmonton that was
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