Category Archives: World News

• Canadian couple released from Turkish detention without charges

  admin October 17, 2019

  A Canadian couple who were detained by Turkish authorities near the Syrian border in July on suspicion of trying to join ISIS are on their way home to Canada after being released without charge, CBC News has learned. Read more »

• Trump assails Kurds, downplays Turkish invasion amid bipartisan condemnation

  admin October 16, 2019

  U.S. President Donald Trump assailed his former Kurdish allies and said things are “very nicely under control” in northern Syria amid an ongoing Turkish military offensive, despite bipartisan condemnation of his troop withdrawal from the region. Read more »

• Family arrested after driving through B.C. ditch into Washington state sent back to U.K.

  admin October 16, 2019

  A family of seven who entered the United States illegally by driving through a ditch from British Columbia have been sent back to the United Kingdom. Read more »

• Canadians among 338 charged in global child pornography operation that used bitcoin

  admin October 16, 2019

  Canadians are among the 338 people charged as part of a global criminal investigation into a child pornography website that sold videos using bitcoin digital currency, U.S. law enforcement officials said Wednesday.  Read more »

• Democrats hearing from just-resigned aide to Pompeo as Ukraine questioning continues

  admin October 16, 2019

  The House impeachment inquiry is exposing new details about unease in the State Department and White House about President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and those of his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and House Democrats on Wednesday were meeting with a former top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Read more »

• Turkey’s Erdogan re-evaluating upcoming U.S. visit amid invasion of Syria

  admin October 16, 2019

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he will decide whether to go ahead with a planned visit next month to the United States after meetings with an American delegation in Turkey this week, as the nation intensifies its military offensive into Syria.  Read more »

• Chinese snooping tech spreads to countries vulnerable to abuse

  admin October 16, 2019

  Cameras equipped with facial recognition technology and created by Chinese telecommunications company Huawei are being rolled out across hundreds of cities around the world. They include countries with weak track records on human rights where Beijing has increased its influence through big business deals. Read more »

• U.S. Democrats face tough questions in fourth round of debates

  admin October 16, 2019

  Tuesday night’s presidential debate gives the three Democratic front-runners a chance to answer recent doubts about their campaigns, while nine other candidates — the largest lineup on a single stage — get a new shot at the spotlight in hopes of rising or at least remaining relevant. Read more »

• Turkey may be held responsible for war crimes over executions in Syria, UN warns

  admin October 15, 2019

  As Syrian forces push further into Kurdish-held territory, capturing the border town of Manbij, the United Nations is warning Turkey it could be held responsible for executions of captured Kurdish fighters and a politician by an affiliated armed group, saying the acts may amount to war crimes. Read more »

• Hunter Biden blasts Trump’s ‘ridiculous conspiracy idea’ on Ukraine dealings

  admin October 15, 2019

  Hunter Biden is rejecting assertions he did anything wrong in engaging in foreign work in Ukraine and China. The son of former U.S. vice-president Joe Biden spoke Tuesday in his first television interview since President Donald Trump and his Republican allies began making public allegations of wrongdoing. Read more »