Factbox: How the Iran plane crash ranks among disasters claiming Canadian lives
A Ukrainian airliner crashed in Iran on Wednesday, killing 63 Canadians. It was one of the biggest, single death tolls involving Canadian citizens in recent times.
UK royals Harry and Meghan step back from senior roles in surprise move
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will step back from senior roles in Britain’s royal family and spend more time in North America, they said on Wednesday, an announcement that appears to have taken his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, by surprise.
Italy, Autostrade exploring ways to resolve concession stand-off: sources
The Italian government and Atlantia’s motorway unit are exploring ways to break a stand-off over the group’s road concession which some members of the ruling coalition want to revoke, two sources close to the matter said on Wednesday.
Bridal party, academics among Canadian victims of plane crash in Iran
A newlywed couple that had traveled to Iran to get married were among the 63 Canadians killed when their Ukrainian Airlines flight crashed early on Wednesday, according to friends and community leaders in the western Canadian city of Edmonton that was …
Boeing jet crashes in Iran with no survivors, security sources see technical cause
A Ukrainian airliner fell to earth in a fireball shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board in a crash that sparked an international scramble to establish the cause.
Brazil cancels Davos trip for President Bolsonaro, citing security
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has canceled a planned trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, presidential spokesman Otavio Rego Barros told reporters on Wednesday.
Satellite photos show damage to air base in Iraq hit by Iranian missiles
Iranian missiles damaged or destroyed seven buildings in the part of Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq that houses U.S. military personnel, satellite photographs appear to show.
Trump softens rhetoric after Iranian missile attacks, sees Iran ‘standing down’
President Donald Trump on Wednesday tempered days of angry rhetoric and suggested Iran was “standing down” after it fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq overnight, as both sides looked to defuse a crisis over the U.S. killing of an Iranian general
Militant attack in Nigerian town kills 20 soldiers, displaces 1,000 residents
About 20 soldiers were killed and nearly 1,000 people made homeless in a militant attack on a town in northeastern Nigeria, two residents and a military source said on Wednesday.
Two rockets fall inside Baghdad’s Green Zone
Two rockets fell on Wednesday inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions, but caused no casualties, the Iraqi military said.
