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An airstrike in Afghanistan on Friday killed at least eight people — all believed to be civilians, residents said — just hours after U.S. statements that there had been a breakthrough in peace talks. CBC | World News
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Trump ‘wasn’t bothered’ by U.S. attorney general’s critical comments: White House
U.S. Attorney General William Barr publicly swiped at Donald Trump on Thursday, declaring the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and open cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.” The White House said Barr has the president’s confidence, though Trump has bristled at criticism from officials before. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. Senate passes bipartisan measure preventing Trump from unilaterally attacking Iran
The U.S. Senate approved a bipartisan measure Thursday limiting President Donald Trump’s authority to launch military operations against Iran. CBC | World News
Read More »Swiss politicians want answers over reports local firm was used by U.S., German spies
Senior members of the Swiss legislature are demanding a parliamentary investigation into a spying operation in which U.S. and German intelligence reportedly used a Swiss cryptography company as a front to eavesdrop on other countries. CBC | World News
Read More »Bernie Sanders may be just what U.S. capitalism needs, says top economist: Don Pittis
New book by economist Thomas Piketty is an endorsement of the need for ideological change, but the “socialist” label may be frightening people conditioned by years of Cold War rhetoric. CBC | World News
Read More »Canadian women’s soccer team falls to U.S. in Olympic qualifying championship final
The U.S. continued its mastery over Canada on Sunday, winning the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship 3-0 on second-half goals by Lynn Williams, Lindsey Horan and Megan Rapinoe. CBC | Sports News
Read More »U.S. politics may be in a state at the moment – but Canadians can’t afford to be smug about it
Canada’s institutions seem designed to resist some of the corrosive forces undermining politics in the United States. That’s a good thing – but it’s no excuse for complacency. CBC | World News
Read More »At least 5 dead in southeastern U.S. as a result of storm system
More than 300,000 homes and businesses were without power early Friday as a weather system blamed for five deaths in the South moved into the northeastern United States. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. citizen dead from coronavirus in Wuhan, says U.S. Embassy in Beijing
A 60-year-old U.S. citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died at Jinyintan Hospital in China’s Wuhan on Thursday, a U.S. embassy spokesperson in Beijing said on Saturday, in what appeared to be the first death of an American from the outbreak. CBC | World News
Read More »More than 130 migrants killed after U.S. deports them to El Salvador, human rights group says
More than 130 Salvadorans have been killed after being deported from the United States since 2013, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, as it stressed the danger migrants face under the Trump administration’s hardening immigration policy. CBC | World News
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