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A top U.S. commander says mortars were used in an attack on the American embassy in Baghdad that injured one person and caused some material damage Sunday night, not katyusha rockets as was initially reported by staffers and a statement from the military. CBC | World News
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Taliban claims U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan
A passenger plane from Afghanistan’s Ariana Airlines crashed Monday in a Taliban-held area of the eastern Ghazni province, local officials said. However, Ariana Airlines told The Associated Press that none of its planes had crashed in Afghanistan. CBC | World News
Read More »Missiles fired at U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraqi PM condemns attack
Five Katyusha rockets crashed into a riverbank near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone without causing any injuries or serious damage, a statement from U.S. Joint Operations Command said. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. House investigators given tape of Trump calling for ambassador’s ouster
An associate of Rudy Giuliani has provided congressional investigators with a recording of U.S. President Donald Trump saying he wanted to get rid of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, whose ouster emerged as an issue in the president’s impeachment, his attorney told The Associated Press on Friday. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Tells Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg To Study Economics
According to The Guardian, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Donald Trump’s treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin openly dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg‘s calls for fossil fuel divestment, commenting that she was ill-informed. Following the 17-year-old’s speech on ending fossil fuel investment and subsidies for the industry, Mnuchin took the mic at a press conference. He began by pretending ...
Read More »U.S. border officers were told to target Iranian-born travellers, officer alleges in email
U.S. officers working at multiple Canada-U.S. border crossings were instructed to target and interrogate Iranian-born travellers earlier this month, said a U.S. border officer in an email obtained by CBC News. U.S. border authorities denied detaining Iranian-born travellers. CBC | World News
Read More »As U.S. threatens retaliation over digital taxes, Canada waits for OECD talks
As the U.S. continues to threaten other countries with retaliation if they proceed with a digital services tax, Canada’s trade minister says the question of how to ensure profitable search engines, social media platforms and online retailers pay their fair share can only be tackled on a multilateral basis. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump lauds U.S. economy at Davos as trial set to begin in Washington
Thousands of kilometres from his Washington impeachment trial, U.S. President Donald Trump took centre stage at Davos to tout the success of the American economy, while criticizing the U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. to screen passengers for new China coronavirus at 3 airports
Thailand has found a second case of a new Chinese coronavirus, a 74-year-old woman from China’s central city of Wuhan. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. Senators sworn in as impeachment procedures against Trump begin
The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was sworn in Thursday at the Senate to preside over President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, then immediately swore in the entire Senate body with an oath to ensure “impartial justice” as jurors for just the third such proceeding in U.S. history. CBC | World News
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