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Russia warned against an “unprecedented escalation of tension” around Iran on Thursday and urged restraint amid a U.S. military buildup in the region that a senior American official said should be complete by mid-March. CBC | World News
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U.S. environment agency sued over scrapping scientific rule behind climate protections
A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. CBC | World News
Read More »Iran says progress made in nuclear talks with U.S. after partial closure of Strait of Hormuz
Iran and the United States reached an understanding on the main “guiding principles” in a second round of nuclear talks in Geneva on Tuesday, but work still needs to be done, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. CBC | World News
Read More »Russia, Ukraine exchange damaging volleys ahead of trilateral talks with U.S.
Russian forces pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure before a new round of peace talks, killing three energy workers and leaving tens of thousands of people without power and heat, officials said Tuesday. For its part, Ukraine struck a Russian oil facility. CBC | World News
Read More »Jesse Jackson, U.S. civil rights activist, dead at 84
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
Read More »‘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
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