Section: US & Canada
Canadian investigators now have access to black boxes from downed Flight 752
Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada have confirmed they now have access to the flight recorders from Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, which was shot down near Tehran by the Iranian military on Jan. 8. …read more Source:: CTV...
Ukraine Welcomes Iranian Handover Of Flight Recorders As Data Extraction Begins
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has welcomed Iran’s handover to France of the flight recorders from a Ukrainian airliner that was downed on January 8. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine President Welcomes Iran Handing Over Black Boxes From Plane Crash to France
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said he welcomed Iran’s decision to hand over the black boxes from the crash of… …read more Source:: U.S....
Long-awaited analysis of downed Flight PS752’s black boxes expected to get underway in France
Experts in France under the supervision of Iranian investigators are expected to start the long-awaited download of Flight PS752’s black boxes on Monday, while countries including Canada observe from the sidelines in Paris. After denying responsibility for days, Iran said it mistakenly shot down the Ukraine International Airlines flight...
The Unlikely Story of the First ‘Made in Vietnam’ Ventilators to Fight COVID-19
In times of war, factories were converted from making cars to making tanks and ships. In the time of the coronavirus, Vietnam has retooled a smartphone factory to churn out life-critical ventilators. For many nations fighting COVID-19, ventilators have highlighted a struggle of life and death and of medical shortages. For Vietnam, which reported...
Downed Ukrainian Airline’s Flight Data Recorders in France for Analysis
Canada’s Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the flight data recorders from a Ukrainian passenger plane downed by an Iranian missile are in Paris where they are expected to be taken to France’s Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority for analysis Monday. Champagne said on Twitter that officials from Canada’s...
Russia’s New Constitution to Further Silence Debate
Outside the Moscow headquarters of the Federal Security Service last week, some of Russia’s most prominent journalists protested the arrest of Ivan Safronov, a former journalist charged with treason. Some were briefly detained.If this were taking place in the U.S. — or any other Western democracy — the outrage would be deafening, but in...
Russia Urged To Accept Responsibility On Sixth Anniversary Of MH17 Downing
Ukraine and its Western partners have marked the sixth anniversary of the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger flight over eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Says No Need to Steal Western Coronavirus Research
Russia still expects a tentative agreement with a multinational pharmaceutical company to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine under development with Oxford University to move forward, despite accusations Russia has been trying to steal vaccine data, the head of Russia’s wealth fund said Friday in an interview with Reuters.Kirill Dmitriev denied...
The End of China’s “Peaceful Rise”
The deteriorating relationship between the world’s two superpowers—the United States and China—is now entering a period of grave danger. An emboldened Chinese Communist Party is now on the move in Asia and globally. Increasingly, its behavior constitutes a threat to peace and security in Asia and the core national interests of the United...
