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Plane crash investigators held up by airport delays as partial U.S. shutdown continues
Specialists investigating the Air Canada plane crash at LaGuardia Airport that killed two pilots were held up by delays at other airports Monday, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, as a partial U.S. government shutdown is causing security delays across the country.
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U.S. offers plan for a ceasefire, but Iran says Washington in no position to negotiate
Iran has received an American 15-point plan for a ceasefire for the Iran war through intermediaries from Pakistan, officials in Islamabad said Wednesday. The proposal was sent even as Washington began to move paratroopers to the Middle East to back up a contingent of Marines already heading there.
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Canada is pitching its energy ambitions in Texas — can the oil and gas industry be convinced?
Though oil and gas industry executives at CERAWeek, a global energy conference in Houston, welcomed Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson’s enthusiasm, they still say they want to see considerable action before they can be sure Canada's federal government is serious about changing the country’s reputation as being reluctant to expand the energy sector, especially oil and natural gas.
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Are Iranian 'sleeper cells' a threat to Canadians? Here’s what intelligence experts say
Rhetoric around Iranian sleeper cells has spiked since the onset of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. Counter-intelligence experts and a former spy tell CBC News that while the regime may not use dormant agents in Canada, the threats of lone wolf attacks and 'criminal proxies' are real.
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Israel's defence minister says military plans occupy swath of southern Lebanon
Israel will occupy southern Lebanon up to the Litani River to create a "defensive buffer," Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday, spelling out for the first time Israel's intent to seize territory amounting to nearly a tenth of Lebanon.