Section: US & Canada
Canadian investigators to join Tehran crash probe, Iran says
OTTAWA — Iran’s civil aviation authority says it has invited Canadian investigators from the Transportation Safety Board to join a growing team probing the plane crash outside Tehran that killed 138 people believed bound for Canada. The statement posted online said representatives from Ukraine International Airlines, the plane’s...
Canadian investigators to join Tehran crash probe, Iran says
OTTAWA — Iran’s civil aviation authority says it has invited Canadian investigators from the Transportation Safety Board to join a growing team probing the plane crash outside Tehran that killed 138 people believed bound for Canada. The statement posted online said representatives from Ukraine International Airlines, the plane’s...
Canadian investigators to join Tehran crash probe, Iran says
OTTAWA — Iran’s civil aviation authority says it has invited Canadian investigators from the Transportation Safety Board to join a growing team probing the plane crash outside Tehran that killed 138 people believed bound for Canada. The statement posted online said representatives from Ukraine International Airlines, the plane’s...
Canada seeks access to plane crash site in Iran as theories about cause begin to surface
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne spoke to his Iranian counterpart late last night, and pushed for immediate access to the site of the fatal Ukraine International Airlines plane crash that left at least 63 Canadians dead. The Kyiv-bound flight crashed Wednesday morning, minutes afer taking off from the Tehran airport,...
McConnell, Pelosi Stand Firm as Impeachment Remains Frozen
The standoff over President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial deepened as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said there will be “no haggling” with Democrats as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demands for more details and witnesses.McConnell’s Senate majority has the leverage Republicans need to launch Trump’s trial...
In Iran Plane Crash, Ukraine Will Investigate Possible Missile Strike
The airliner had turned back toward the airport before it crashed, minutes after takeoff, Iranian officials reported. The flight data recorders were recovered but said to be damaged. …read more Source:: The New York...
A look at some of the victims of the Iran plane crash who called Canada home
There were dozens who called Canada home among the 176 people who were killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crashed after takeoff near Tehran, Iran. Friends and family in Canada were left to consult a passenger list the airline released to learn if their loved ones were among the dead. Here is a look at some of the victims from...
In Iran Plane Crash, Ukraine Will Investigate Possible Missile Strike
The airliner had turned back toward the airport before it crashed, minutes after takeoff, Iranian officials reported. The flight data recorders were recovered but said to be damaged. …read more Source:: The New York...
Taiwan Is the Last Free Place in the Chinese-Speaking World. Can President Tsai Ing-wen Preserve Its Democracy?
In the early 1980s, a young Taiwanese student newly enrolled at the London School of Economics heard a knock at her dormitory door. A pair of bedraggled British students were there to ask Tsai Ing-wen if she wanted to subscribe to a newspaper. In the spirit of collegiality, she readily agreed. “It was only later that I discovered it was a...
Ukrainian Flight 752 was on fire and seemed to be turning back before it crashed in Iran and killed 176 people, the first report into the disaster said
Iran’s first report into the Ukraine International Airline crash said the jet encountered unnamed technical problems, though speculation remains. …read more Source:: Business...
