Canadian World News
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:04:48 ESTCanadian military trainers pulled out of Ukraine before anticipated Russian invasion: sources
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 13:56:54 ESTFarmers in Greece determined to block highways to protest rising energy costs
Greek farmers, taking a page from the Canadian truckers' protest handbook, say they are determined to shut down the country's major highways to protest energy costs. Fuel taxes in the country are amon...
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 06:23:30 ESTMan accused of blasphemy for allegedly burning Qur'an stoned to death in Pakistan
An enraged mob stoned to death a middle-aged man for allegedly desecrating the Qur'an in a remote village in eastern Pakistan, police said Sunday.
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:10:38 ESTFrench police fire tear gas at demonstrators as anti-restriction convoy enters Paris
Police fired tear gas at demonstrators as a convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions breached their defences and drove into central Paris on Saturday, snarling traffic around the Arc de Triomphe and on...
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 07:22:38 ESTSaudi Arabia transfers Aramco stock worth $80B to kingdom's wealth fund
Saudi Arabia said Sunday it will transfer four per cent of the stock in the state-run oil giant Aramco to a sovereign wealth fund, an infusion valued at nearly $80 billion US, as the kingdom tries to...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:55:38 ESTBiden orders $7B in frozen Afghan funds be used for humanitarian aid, Sept. 11 victims
President Joe Biden signed an order Friday to free $7 billion US in Afghan assets now frozen in the U.S., splitting the money between humanitarian aid for poverty-stricken Afghanistan and a fund for S...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 20:13:36 ESTFormer U.S. Air Force staff sergeant pleads guilty in fatal shooting of federal guard
A former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant and alleged member of the "boogaloo" extremist movement pleaded guilty Friday in the fatal shooting of a federal security officer in the San Francisco Bay Area a...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:30:17 ESTGalvanized by Canadian trucker protests, convoy of vehicles descends on French capital
Waving French flags and shouting "freedom," protesters angry over pandemic restrictions drove toward Paris on Friday, galvanized in part by truckers who have blockaded Canada's capital and blocked bor...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:25:59 ESTKoalas declared endangered in eastern Australia
Koalas were declared officially endangered Friday in eastern Australia as they fall prey to disease, lost habitat and other threats.
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:46:16 ESTUkrainian Olympian flashes 'No War in Ukraine' sign after competing
A Ukrainian skeleton athlete flashed a small sign that read "No War in Ukraine" to the cameras as he finished a run at the Beijing Olympics on Friday night, a plea for peace at a time of rising tensio...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:37:13 ESTCIA has shielded secret data collection program from oversight, 2 U.S. senators say
Two U.S. senators claim the Central Intelligence Agency is running a secret program aimed at scooping up massive amounts of data and has been shielding it from Congressional oversight, they said in a ...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:06:07 ESTBeijing's ambitious COVID-19 Olympic 'bubble' holding strong
One week into the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games and China seems to be meeting its formidable COVID-19 challenge with a so-called 'bubble' that allows Games participants to skip quarantine but tightly res...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:37:11 ESTCoronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Feb. 11
Ontario is lifting the directive that paused non-urgent procedures and surgeries, with the province citing a "steady decline in COVID-19 related hospitalizations and ICU admissions."
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:51:59 ESTElon Musk says 36-storey Starship could see 1st launch in March
SpaceX's Elon Musk said Thursday that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship — the world's most powerful rocket ever built — could come in another month or two.
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:36:43 ESTU.S. offers Trudeau government help to end border blockade
U.S. officials have offered to help the Trudeau government end a protest blockade whose effects are multiplying across the border and causing increasing concern in Washington.
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:00:00 ESTHow a former Trump official wound up at Ottawa's convoy protest
A former Trump administration official who clashed with colleagues in Washington over views on the pandemic fell outside the scientific consensus has found allies at the vaccine-mandate protest in Ott...
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:23:30 ESTUkraine crisis now 'most dangerous moment' in Europe in decades, U.K. PM says
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday the Ukraine crisis has grown into "the most dangerous moment" for Europe in decades, while his top diplomat held icy talks with her Moscow counterpar...
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:02:08 ESTU.S. politician uses blockade at Canada-U.S. border to argue for Buy American
The effects of the Ambassador Bridge shutdown in Windsor, Ont., have hit car plants and a Michigan Democrat says this illustrates the need for the U.S. to rely less on Canada. The timing, for Canada, ...
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:00:00 ESTPutin sat far from Macron after French leader refused Russian COVID-19 test: sources
French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, and was therefore kept at a distance from the...
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:47:44 ESTPolice launch tear gas at striking factory workers in Haiti's capital
Police fired tear gas for a second day Thursday in attempts to break up protests by striking workers demanding pay increases at an industrial park in Haiti's capital.