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Jesse Jackson, the Martin Luther King protégé whose two bids for the U.S. presidency highlighted a lifelong fight for social and economic justice for all Americans, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. CBC | World News
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‘Who cares what the past was?’: Canada’s women look for redemption against U.S. in women’s hockey final
Canada, which was worse than the U.S. in every possible way in a 5-0 loss in the preliminary round, has 72 hours to find the belief that Thursday’s women’s hockey final will have a different result — that they can somehow beat an American team that’s younger, faster, meaner, stronger. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Zelenskyy says U.S. too often asks Ukraine, not Russia, for concessions, ahead of Geneva peace talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced hope on Saturday that U.S.-brokered peace talks in Geneva next week would be substantive, but he said Ukraine was being asked “too often” to make concessions. CBC | World News
Read More »‘We’re so vulnerable’: How Canadians can cope with anxiety in the face of existential threats from the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term has threatened Canada with annexation and economic ruin, leaving some Canadians feeling anxious and concerned. A Winnipeg therapist offers strategies for coping with those emotions. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. star Malinin falls twice in free skate, giving Kazakhstan’s Shaidorov improbable Olympic gold
Ilia Malinin of the United States failed to make the Olympic podium after a disastrous free program performance in the men’s singles event at the Milano Cortina Games on Friday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Syria’s leader targeted for assassination often, UN report says, as U.S. hands over military base
Syrian government forces have taken control of a base in the east of the country that was run for years by U.S. troops as part of the war against the Islamic State group, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday. CBC | World News
Read More »Why is the U.S. cutting Cuba off from the rest of the world? | About That
U.S. President Donald Trump is applying severe economic pressure to an already-strained Cuba mired in a food and power crisis. Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is choosing now to cut off the country’s oil supply, and why, for Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, it’s also personal. CBC | World News
Read More »As tensions simmer between U.S. and Iran, Iraq is feeling the heat
Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the U.S., Iraq is one of the most overlooked, at least outside the Middle East. But U.S. reaction to the reappearance on the political scene of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki — a candidate for the job once more — is a sharp reminder of the tightrope Iraq walks between the two. ...
Read More »Trump is set to scrap a longstanding legal basis for U.S. climate action. Here’s what that could mean
The Trump administration is expected this week to rescind a legal opinion that has guided emissions controls in the U.S. since the Obama era, withdrawing the so-called endangerment finding of the Environmental Protection Agency. CBC | World News
Read More »Some Greenlandic Inuit say work on independence from Denmark will come amidst fight against U.S. threats
Over the decades, Greenland has gained more autonomy from the Kingdom of Denmark. But recent threats from U.S. President Donald Trump about taking over Greenland has brought the autonomous territory closer to the country that colonized it. CBC | World News
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