Section: National Newswatch (Canada)
Plane crash leaves friends in Canada wondering what to do with belongings
It was only a few years ago that Shaho Shahbazpanahi remembers moving his friend Razgar Rahimi and his young family into their home. He’s now trying to figure out what to do without them, not only in terms of grieving their loss, but how to take care of everything they left behind in Stouffville, north of Toronto. Rahimi, his wife, Farideh...
Pompeo breaks silence on alleged threats to envoy in Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday broke nearly 72 hours of silence over alleged surveillance and threats to the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, saying he believed the allegations would prove to be wrong but that he had an obligation to evaluate and investigate the matter. In interviews with conservative radio hosts, Pompeo...
AP source: Dershowitz, Starr on Trump impeachment legal team
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal team will include former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton, according to a person familiar with the matter. The team will also include Pam Bondi, the former Florida...
Industry applauds TMX ruling and Trump called a clown; In The News for Jan. 17
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 17 … What we are watching in Canada … OTTAWA — The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says it is pleased, but not surprised, by the Supreme Court ruling that shut...
Ukrainian prime minister submits resignation after tapes
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s prime minister submitted his resignation Friday, days after he was caught on tape saying the country’s president knows nothing about the economy. In a Facebook post, Oleksiy Honcharuk said that he had given his resignation to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “I took this post to implement the president’s...
Airliner crash a mistake that pleased Iran’s enemies: Supreme Leader Khamenei
Iran’s supreme leader says that the downing of a civilian airliner leaving Tehran was a bitter accident that saddened Iran and made its enemies happy. In a rare sermon at Friday prayers in Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran’s international rivals have seized on the crash to question the country and its armed forces. The crash of...
Flight 752: Canadians don’t believe full and accurate accounting of aviation tragedy will ever be revealed
In the wake of the devastating Ukraine International Airlines plane crash in Tehran that killed 176 people, including 57 Canadians, the people of this country have little confidence the truth about what really happened will ever emerge. The latest public opinion survey from the Angus Reid Institute indicates most – seven-in-ten – do not believe a...
Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas speaks again: ‘It was all about 2020’
Lev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani’s former business associate, said on CNN Thursday night that his view of his and Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine was that “it was all about 2020, to make sure [Trump] had another four years.” “That’s the way everybody viewed it,” Parnas said. “There was no other reason for doing it.” The statement came...
Pompeo stonewalls as evidence emerges of possible surveillance of ex-Ukraine ambassador
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has maintained a persistent silence as stunning new evidence has emerged suggesting the former ambassador to Ukraine may have been illegally surveilled before she was forced out of her job by President Donald Trump. The State Department has not publicly commented on any developments in the more than 36 hours since a...
Iran must compensate crash victims families, Canada-led group agrees
Canada and other countries are demanding compensation from Iran for the families of people killed when Iranian forces shot down an airliner leaving Tehran last week. That’s one of five elements in an agreement coming out of a meeting Canada hosted in London today, with representatives from Britain, Sweden, Afghanistan and Ukraine. The...
