Section: US & Canada
We’re Just Discovering the Price of Killing Soleimani
No American paid a price for President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iran’s Qassem Soleimani. But it looks like 176 other people did, including 63 Canadian citizens and many more Iranian nationals en route to Canada.As of mid-day today, a horrible new chapter of the story has been posted for all to see. Iran retaliated for the...
Timeline: Canada’s diplomatic relationship with Iran
Relations between Canada and Iran have frayed and been mended many times in the decades before the deadly crash of the Ukraine International Airlines flight. …read more Source:: Global...
The New Republic’s First Issue of 2020 Profiles Joe Biden in His Last Bid for the Office of President of the United States
New York, NY — (January 6, 2020) — In The New Republic’s January/February 2020 cover story “A Man in Full,” veteran political reporter Walter Shapiro uses his decades of insight to reflect on the fortunes of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. With a political history to defend that’s longer than any other candidates, and a...
Trump on Iran’s Embassy Attack: ‘This Was the Anti-Benghazi’
President Donald Trump on Thursday said the attack by Iranian proxies on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad turned out to be “the anti-Benghazi.” Trump took credit for preventing the situation from escalating the way the 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, did. Recent Stories in National Security Trump on Iran’s Embassy...
Ukraine plane may have been shot down by Iranian missile by mistake
President Trump said Thursday he found the crash suspicious and that “somebody could have made a mistake on the other side.” …read more Source:: USA...
Iranian Missile Blew Passenger Jet Out of the Sky, U.S. Suspects
Wana News Agency/ReutersU.S. officials now suspect the Ukrainian airliner that crashed on Tuesday night in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was shot out of the sky by one of Iran’s anti-aircraft missile systems, probably as the result of a horrifying mistake.Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, a Boeing 737-800 traveling from...
President Trump on Ukraine plane crash in Iran: Something very terrible happened
President Donald Trump doesn’t believe mechanical failure caused a Ukrainian jet to crash in Iran and suggested “something very terrible happened.” …read more Source:: USA...
US officials believe Iran accidentally shot down Ukraine passenger plane: reports
U.S. officials on Thursday said they believe Iran accidentally shot down a Ukraine-bound passenger plane this week in Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard, according to multiple media reports.The Boeing 737-800 plane, belonging to Ukraine… …read more Source:: The...
US officials believe Iran shot down Ukrainian passenger plane with anti-aircraft missile — likely by mistake
U.S. officials and Ukrainian investigators said Thursday that they believe a missile likely caused Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 to crash near Tehran Wednesday, killing all 176 passengers on board, the Washington Post reported. A team of 45 experts and search-and-rescue personnel arrived from Ukraine to investigate the incident,...
Ukraine airliner likely brought down accidentally by Iranian missile, U.S. says
WASHINGTON — A Ukraine airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was most likely brought down accidentally by Iranian air defences, U.S. officials said Thursday, as President Donald Trump said he had a terrible feeling about the disaster. Read More …read more Source:: Ottawa...
