KYIV, Ukraine — The bodies of the 11 Ukrainians who died when an Iranian missile shot down a passenger plane have arrived in Ukraine for a farewell ceremony. They were among the 176 people killed in the Jan. 8 catastrophe, when a Ukrainian Airlines plane heading to Kyiv was brought down shortly after takeoff from Tehran. […]
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 […]
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 […]
German driver Sophia Floersch believes that Ferrari’s plans to add a female driver to its Driver Academy for the sake of diversity were wrong. Scuderia boss Mattia Binotto recently spoke of the House of Maranello’s desire to include a female racer among its juniors in the near-term future. “The Academy [is also looking] for women […]
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 […]
HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge says a mentally ill man who killed his wife is entitled to the proceeds of her life insurance policy because he was found not criminally responsible for her death. Justice Frank Edwards of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has ruled that Richard Dwayne Maidment, who was diagnosed with […]
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, […]
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 […]
Simone Veil arrive troisième du classement Ifop du JDD. Voici pourquoi. Eternelle Simone Veil. L’ancienne ministre de la Santé est dans le top 3 des personnalités préférées de l’année selon le traditionnel sondage réalisé pour le JDD par l’Ifop. En tête chez les hommes et les femmes politiques, elle domine le classement de toute sa […]
Hier, Renaud était place de la République à Paris afin de rendre hommage aux victimes des attentats de Charlie Hebdo. Affaibli, il était accompgné de Christophe Alévêque. “Une pensée particulière, ce jour pour mes amis de Charlie Hebdo, pouvait-on lire hier sur la page facebook de Renaud. Rendez-vous ce soir à 18h00 place de la […]