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Students from Canadian universities, families among plane crash victims in Iran
Newlyweds, a toddler and university students returning to their studies were among 138 people travelling to Canada who died Wednesday morning when a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed shortly...
Jan 10, 2020
Canada told to back crash allegations and a new $5 bill; In The News for Jan. 10
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 10: What we are watching i...
Jan 10, 2020
Car bomb kills 3, wounds 6 at checkpoint in Somali capital
NAIROBI, Kenya - A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint in Somalia's capital Wednesday morning, killing three people and wounding six others, a local official said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremis...
Jan 10, 2020
Australian PM's leadership criticized during wildfire crisis
CANBERRA, Australia - As his country burned, Australia's prime minister was cursed and jeered out of a town, called an "idiot," a "moron" and worse, and skewered at home and abroad for his dismissive ...
Jan 10, 2020
Canadians unharmed in Iraq and out-of-this world cookies; In The News for Jan. 8
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 8: What we are watching in...
Jan 10, 2020
New poll suggests Tories know what they want in a new leader but not whom to pick
OTTAWA - A new poll finds Conservative voters are far more sure about what they want in a new leader for their party than they are about who should fill that job. A Leger Marketing survey suggest...
Jan 10, 2020
Everything was normal in leadup to doomed Tehran-Toronto flight
Sheyda Shadkhoo was afraid as she boarded the flight from Tehran that was supposed to have eventually returned her to her family in Toronto. She thought she was leaving trouble behind, not flying...
Jan 10, 2020
Canadian team to head to Australia next week to help rescue animals
The thought of suffering animals spurred Brad Pattison of Kelowna, B.C., to organize a group of volunteers from across Canada to fly to Australia to help creatures trapped and fleeing from wildfires. ...
Jan 10, 2020
Ghosn's lawyer slams minister's gaffe on proving innocence
TOKYO - A lawyer for Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's former chairman who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon, on Friday slammed a gaffe by the Japanese justice minister who said that Ghosn should "prove"...
Jan 10, 2020
NewsAlert: Back allegations with data, Iran officials tells Canada and U.S.
TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian official is calling on Canada and the United States to release data backing their allegations that the Ukraine International Airlines flight may have been downed by an Irania...
Jan 10, 2020