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Trudeau: Canada intel has heard Jamal Khashoggi slaying tapes
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday became the first Western leader to acknowledge his country had heard recordings of the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. "Canada has been fully briefed up on what Turkey had to share," Trudeau said from Paris, where he ...
Coast Guard Academy honors pilot for heroism in 1986 plane crash rescue
A Coast Guard Academy graduate who won praise for the 1986 rescue of two people from a plane crash in a lake has been inducted into the service academy's Hall of Heroes. Mark Feldman piloted a helicopter that pulled the two victims from Lake St. ...
Jail in Japan for cannabis in Canada? Possible but unlikely
Possession and receipt of marijuana are illegal for Japanese citizens even overseas, but don't expect urine checks at immigration.
Views from Tokyo: Should Japan follow Canada and legalize recreational marijuana?
What do Tokyoites and tourists think of Canada legalizing pot for recreational use? Could or should it ever happen in Japan?
Canada apologizes for turning away ship carrying Jews fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized in Parliament on Wednesday for Canada's refusal to admit Jewish asylum seekers fleeing Nazi Germany just months before the outbreak of World War II. On May 15, 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis departed Germany and crossed the Atlantic ...
Canada urges Pakistan to ensure safety of Christian woman spared in blasphemy case
Canada urged Pakistan on Tuesday to ensure the well-being of a Pakistani Christian woman whose life is in danger after having been acquitted in the South Asian country last month of blasphemy charges against Islam, a ruling that sparked mass protests. The case of Asia ...
At U.N., China snubs criticism about mass Muslim detentions in Xinjiang
China on Tuesday once again rejected criticism of its treatment of ethnic Muslims, telling the United Nations that accusations of rights abuses from some countries were "politically driven." At a U.N. review of the country's human rights record, China characterized the far west region of ...
Canadian paramedics said one person was killed Sunday after two small planes crashed midair over the capital of Ottawa. Ottawa police said the accident occurred over the west end of the city just after 10 a.m. local time. Staff Sgt. Jamie Harper said one plane crashed ...
NAFTA 2.0 seen drawing some jobs back to U.S. but cutting others as firms embrace robots
President Donald Trump insists his new North American trade deal will deliver a victory for U.S. factory workers by returning many high-paying jobs to the United States. Maybe. But a review of the agreement suggests that it could also mean higher prices for consumers and ...
Little buzz in Japan over Canada's move to legalize marijuana
Japan's media coverage of Canada's Oct. 17 announcement that possession and use of marijuana would be legalized — subject to certain restrictions — has been mostly brief and low-key. To access the best source about marijuana in Japanese, I suggest you buy a subscription to ...
Man gets life in prison for killing Japanese woman in Canada
A man convicted of murdering a Japanese woman in Vancouver in 2016 received a life sentence Friday with no chance of parole for 14 years, Canadian media reported. The ruling by a Vancouver court came after William Schneider, 50, was found guilty of murder last ...
Handful of nations hold fate of world's vanishing wilderness
More than 70 percent of Earth's last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries, scientists said Wednesday — mostly nations that alarm environmentalists with their lukewarm response to climate change. True wild spaces — land and sea areas mostly unaffected by mankind's ...
