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EXPLAINER: How Trump’s 2nd impeachment will unfold
Jan13

EXPLAINER: How Trump’s 2nd impeachment will unfold

WASHINGTON — The House is expected to impeach President Donald Trump for his encouragement of supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol, a vote that would make him the first American president to be impeached twice. While the previous three impeachments — those of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Trump — took months before a final vote,...

EXPLAINER: How Trump’s 2nd impeachment will unfold
Jan13

EXPLAINER: How Trump’s 2nd impeachment will unfold

WASHINGTON — The House is expected to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his encouragement of supporters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, a vote that would make him the first American president to be impeached twice. While the previous three impeachments — those of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Trump — took...

US imposes new Ukraine sanctions over election interference
Jan11

US imposes new Ukraine sanctions over election interference

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday sanctioned more than a half-dozen associates of a Ukrainian lawmaker accused by U.S. officials of interfering in the 2020 presidential election by releasing edited audio recordings of President-elect Joe Biden. The Treasury Department already had imposed sanctions on Andrii Derkach, whom U.S....

The Latest: Virus infections top 90 million confirmed cases
Jan11

The Latest: Virus infections top 90 million confirmed cases

BALTIMORE — Coronavirus infections have now surpassed 90 million confirmed cases around the world, as more countries braced for wider spread of more virulent strains of a disease that has now killed nearly 2 million worldwide. The number of infections worldwide has doubled in just 10 weeks, according to a tally by John Hopkins University on...

The Latest: Seattle probes officers about Washington rally
Jan09

The Latest: Seattle probes officers about Washington rally

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the fallout of the storming of the Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump loyalists (all times local): 1:30 a.m. Seattle’s police chief says two city officers were apparently in Washington, D.C., Wednesday when a violent mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the nation’s Capitol and that an...

Canadians mark anniversary of downing of Flight PS752 in Iran
Jan08

Canadians mark anniversary of downing of Flight PS752 in Iran

TORONTO — Memorial services are being held today for victims of a passenger jet the Iranian military shot down one year ago. The ceremonies are part of an international effort that began with a livestream on Thursday at 9:42 p.m. ET. That’s the exact moment Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 left Tehran’s international...

Canadians mark anniversary of downing of Flight PS752 in Iran
Jan08

Canadians mark anniversary of downing of Flight PS752 in Iran

TORONTO — Memorial services are being held today for victims of a passenger jet the Iranian military shot down one year ago. The ceremonies are part of an international effort that began with a livestream on Thursday at 9:42 p.m. ET. That’s the exact moment Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 left Tehran’s international...

Ukraine Flight PS752: One year later, victims’ families still asking why
Jan08

Ukraine Flight PS752: One year later, victims’ families still asking why

Maral Gorginppour spent her first wedding anniversary this past week without fanfare or celebration. She wondered how, days later, she might commemorate the first anniversary of her husband’s death — Jan. 8, 2020 — when the airplane he was in on the first leg of his journey back to Ottawa from Tehran was shot down by Iranian forces. She...

How loved-ones are honouring the memory of those killed in Iran’s Flight 752 air disaster
Jan08

How loved-ones are honouring the memory of those killed in Iran’s Flight 752 air disaster

Family and friends of victims of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 describe their legacies, and how cherished memories continue to be held close. …read more Source::...

Goodale rejects Iran’s offer to compensate Canadian victims of downed Ukraine plane
Jan07

Goodale rejects Iran’s offer to compensate Canadian victims of downed Ukraine plane

OTTAWA — Canada’s special adviser on the Iranian military’s downing of a passenger jet one year ago this week is rejecting Tehran’s offer to pay $150,000 to the families of those killed in the tragedy. Ralph Goodale, the former Liberal public safety minister, says Iran doesn’t have the right to offer compensation to...