Month: January 2020

TEHRAN, Iran —  The Iranian official leading the investigation into the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down by the Revolutionary Guard appeared to backtrack Sunday on plans to send the flight recorders abroad for analysis, a day after saying they would be sent to Kyiv. Hassan Rezaeifar was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency […]

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Attorneys are still trying to reach hundreds of parents of separated children as part of San Diego litigation SAN DIEGO —  U.S. officials assured a San Diego federal judge on Friday that they are highly confident that they have accounted for all of the children who were separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s short-lived […]

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A tenured professor is resigning after McGill University refused to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry.  Gregory Mikkelson said he could no longer stomach working for the Montreal academic institution because its decisions conflict so drastically with his environmental ethics research there. “I teach that reversing our ecological devastation and establishing ecological harmony require […]

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OTTAWA — The number of people intercepted by the RCMP as they crossed into Canada between official border points fell in 2019, newly released federal figures show, but overall, the number of asylum claims being lodged in this country is up. The data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada reveal that in all of 2019, […]

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The Liverpool star says he holds no grudges after losing his world’s most expensive defender tag to the Manchester United centre-back Virgil van Dijk has insisted that there is no animosity between himself and Harry Maguire, who broke the Liverpool defender’s world record transfer fee when he joined Manchester United. Van Dijk became the most expensive defender […]

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