Section: US & Canada
New video appears to show Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashing in Iran
The Kyiv-bound Boeing 737-800 crashed early Wednesday after taking off from Tehran, Iran, killing all on board. …read more Source:: Global...
Trudeau meets Iran plane crash victims’ families as dispute over cause deepens
OTTAWA — An international dispute over the cause of the Tehran plane crash deepened on Friday even as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met the families of some of the dozens of Canadians killed in the crash and investigators scrambled to get into Iran. The private conversations between Trudeau and the families of victims in Toronto were the latest...
U.S. imposes more sanctions on Iran
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced new sanctions on Iran Friday, a modest turn of the economic screws on a country already facing hundreds of U.S. sanctions that have devastated the Iranian economy but produced no measurable impact on government policies. The move marks the administration’s first concrete response to...
Why It Looks Like Iran Shot Down Ukrainian Airliner
KYIV, Ukraine—U.S. officials say Iran likely shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident Wednesday morning, just hours after the Islamist regime launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops. According to news reports, American intelligence suggests that Iran fired two Cold War-era, Tor surface-to-air missiles at...
Iranian missile likely caused Ukraine crash, Pompeo says; investigators get access to black box
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed that the US suspects an Iranian missile caused the deadly crash of a Ukrainian passenger jet in Iran. …read more Source:: USA...
Trump Broke It. Now He Owns It.
There’s a big question that the Trump administration does not want to talk about: Why has the United States escalated its conflict with Iran?Trump and his supporters would prefer to focus on the smaller and more convenient question of direct culpability for the shooting down of Ukraine Airlines Flight 752.By now, it seems near-certain that...
A look at some of the victims of the Iran plane crash who had roots in Canada
Dozens of people with ties to Canada were among the 176 who were killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crashed after takeoff near Tehran, Iran. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that intelligence from multiple sources indicates that an Iranian missile downed the flight, though it might have been unintentional. Here is a...
Ukraine Plane Crash: Roulette in the Sky
Why did Iran not ground flights as its air space became a war zone? And why would a missile battery be so close an international airport? Those are just a couple of the at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
As Iran, US Take Step Back from Brink, Canada Grieves
The worst had passed, it seemed, and the United States and Iran no longer appeared poised at the edge of war.“All is well!” President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night, days after a U.S. drone strike killed Iran’s most powerful general, and Iran, after a barrage of missiles, had signaled it was stepping back from further...
Experts urge frank, empathetic talk with youth reeling from Iran plane crash
Among the many painful details that have emerged about downed Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 is the preponderance of young victims, and their deaths have sent waves of grief through schools and university campuses across the country. Young people attempting to process such senseless tragedy can vary wildly in their understanding of...
