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Iran rules out handing over recorders of downed plane to other countries
Jan 23, 2020 03:33Iran’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 08:12Iran'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 04:39Canadian 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 11:27Foreign 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.
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Iran welcomes global cooperation on plane crash investigation: President Rouhani
Jan 12, 2020 03:40President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic welcomes any cooperation in the framework of international regulations to shed more light on a Ukrainian passenger plane crash near Tehran, adding that the country will provide all necessary consular facilities in this regard.
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US detains over 60 Iranians on Canada border: Group
Jan 06, 2020 07:31The United States has detained more than 60 Iranians on the border between the state of Washington and Canada amid rising tensions between Iran and the US, the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says.
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Canadian drug distributors say no to US president’s import plan
Dec 21, 2019 03:14Many of Canada’s drug suppliers cannot, or will not, agree to ship cheaper prescription medicines into the United States, a new challenge to the Trump administration’s push to reduce drug prices, companies and industry officials told Reuters.
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Trump’s North America trade deal is poised to worsen climate change
Dec 20, 2019 15:41Climate advocates point to the growing problem of “outsourced” pollution — where wealthier countries like the United States and Japan take credit for improving their own domestic environmental standards, while then importing more goods from heavy-polluting countries. Critics say the current draft of USMCA does nothing meaningful to address this problem.
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Canada’s seizure, sale and disbursement of Iranian assets violate int’l law
Nov 22, 2019 05:51The recent illegal moves in Toronto by the government of President Justin Trudeau against the Islamic Republic of Iran is nothing but acts of hooliganism, says Canadian journalist Steve Rutchinski in his report for ‘GlobalResearch’, titled: “Canada’s seizure, sale and disbursement of Iranian assets violate int’l law”.
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About 37 killed in attack on Canadian firm convoy in Burkina Faso
Nov 07, 2019 08:14At least 37 people have been killed and dozens of others wounded in an attack on a convoy of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso, regional authorities say.