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New round of Trump clemency benefits Manafort, other allies
Dec24

New round of Trump clemency benefits Manafort, other allies

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest wave of clemency to benefit longtime associates and supporters. The actions, in Trump’s final weeks at the White House, bring to nearly 50 the...

New round of Trump clemency benefits Manafort, other allies
Dec24

New round of Trump clemency benefits Manafort, other allies

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest wave of clemency to benefit longtime associates and supporters. The actions, in Trump’s waning time at the White House, bring to nearly 50 the number of...

Moldova’s pro-Russian prime minister resigns after protests
Dec23

Moldova’s pro-Russian prime minister resigns after protests

CHISINAU, Moldova — Mouldova’s pro-Russian prime minister has resigned to, as he put it, pave the way for an early parliamentary election and “bring normalcy” to the tiny former Soviet state. Prime Minister Ion Chicu, who led a pro-Russian government since November 2019, tendered his resignation Wednesday, a day before the country’s...

Russian and Chinese bombers fly joint patrol over Pacific
Dec22

Russian and Chinese bombers fly joint patrol over Pacific

MOSCOW — Russian and Chinese bombers flew a joint patrol mission over the Western Pacific Tuesday in a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing. The Russian military said that a pair of its Tu-95 strategic bombers and four Chinese H-6K bombers flew over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. The Russian Defence...

Pandemic forced Trudeau back to centre stage, improved his political fortunes
Dec20

Pandemic forced Trudeau back to centre stage, improved his political fortunes

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau always knew 2020 was going to be a difficult year, his first leading a minority Liberal government dependent on opposition party support for its survival. But that’s turned out to be the least of the prime minister’s worries as the country has lurched from one crisis to another. It started in early January with...

Smoking Gun Biden-Burisma Email
Dec19

Smoking Gun Biden-Burisma Email

It’s almost as though Hillary Clinton couldn’t abide Joe Biden getting all the corruption attention. Her people just had to stick their fingers in the Ukraine cookie jar. It’s all coming out now because of our lawsuit. We received 38 pages of records from the State Department revealing that Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy...

Glavin: There was no ‘human error’ in Iran’s shootdown of Ukraine Airlines flight. Unfortunately, there won’t be any justice either
Dec16

Glavin: There was no ‘human error’ in Iran’s shootdown of Ukraine Airlines flight. Unfortunately, there won’t be any justice either

It isn’t easy to determine what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne or Transport Minister Marc Garneau mean, exactly, or what they genuinely expect, when they talk about seeking “accountability” from the Khomeinist regime in Iran for the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752...

Better crash probes and more care for families needed, Goodale says in PS752 report
Dec16

Better crash probes and more care for families needed, Goodale says in PS752 report

OTTAWA — Canada’s special adviser on the federal response to Iran’s January shootdown of a Ukraine International Airlines jetliner says changes are needed in international aviation rules to allow for “more credible” crash investigations. In a lengthy report released Tuesday, former Liberal cabinet minister Ralph Goodale...

Better crash probes and more care for families needed, Goodale says in PS752 report
Dec16

Better crash probes and more care for families needed, Goodale says in PS752 report

OTTAWA — Canada’s special adviser on the federal response to Iran’s January shootdown of a Ukraine International Airlines jetliner says changes are needed in international aviation rules to allow for “more credible” crash investigations. In a lengthy report released Tuesday, former Liberal cabinet minister Ralph Goodale...

Independent Canadian report finds flaws in Iran’s probe into downing of airliner
Dec16

Independent Canadian report finds flaws in Iran’s probe into downing of airliner

Last month the United Nations aviation agency and Ukraine complained separately about how Iran was conducting the probe. …read more Source:: Global...