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Wildfires threaten North American water supplies
Feb 19, 2020 17:35In Canada and the United States, one large and severe wildfire might increase drinking water production costs by US$10 million to US$100 million. In southern California, mudslides from heavy rainfall after wildfires caused 23 deaths and produced more than US$100 million of structural damage in 2018.
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US health-care system costs four times more than Canada's single-payer system
Feb 18, 2020 22:58According to a research, the average American spent $933 in hospital administration costs, compared to $196 in Canada. Americans paid an average of $844 on insurance companies' overhead, compared to $146 in Canada. Americans spent an average of $465 for physicians' insurance-related costs, compared to $87 in Canada.
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Venezuela’s president slams Trump for meeting with opposition figure
Feb 06, 2020 08:03Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has condemned US President Donald Trump for inviting Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaido to Washington.
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Protests held across world to condemn Trump's anti-Iran policies
Jan 27, 2020 07:05People across the globe have taken to the streets for an International Day of Action against war with Iran in condemnation of Washington’s warmongering with Tehran.
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With passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress boosts fossil fuel polluters in Mexico
Jan 24, 2020 13:39"The passage of NAFTA 2.0 is very concerning for all the efforts to confront the climate crisis and save the planet", says Manuel Perez-Rocha, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the coordinator of the Network for Justice in Global Investment in an article titled: With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters in Mexico. This article has been published in the Truthout website.
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Canadian air tanker fighting Australia bushfires crashes, killing all three on board
Jan 23, 2020 11:51A Canadian-owned C-130 Hercules air tanker crashed while fighting bushfires in Australia’s alpine region on Thursday, killing all three of its crew, authorities said.
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Iran rules out handing over recorders of downed plane to other countries
Jan 23, 2020 07:03Iran’s minister of transportation has resisted calls for handing over to other countries the recorders of a plane that crashed near the capital Tehran earlier this month, saying the so-called black boxes should remain with an Iranian team that is investigating the incident.
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Iran decries certain countries' political abuse of Ukraine plane crash
Jan 17, 2020 11:42Iran's Foreign Ministry has decried the "abuse" of Iran's accidental downing of Ukraine plane by some countries who pursue certain "political plots" against Iran.
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Plane crash could be avoided if NO tension was there: Canada
Jan 14, 2020 08:09Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the 176 victims of the Ukrainian plane recently shot down unintentionally by the Iranian military would be alive if there had been NO tension in the region.
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Iran: Zarif sets up hotline to help families of victims of downed Ukrainian plane
Jan 12, 2020 14:57Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he has established a hotline, “manned 24/7”, at the ministry “to assist families of victims” who were killed on board a Ukrainian plane that crashed earlier this week just outside the Iranian capital Tehran.