(AFP) - 1736 GMT: Canada's foreign minister is proposing a law to freeze the assets of corrupt regimes, closing a loophole that allowed the family of Tunisia's ex-president to hide money in the country's banks.
The law, dubbed The Freezing Assets of Corrupt Regimes Act, would give Ottawa "new and more robust tools in our fight against corruption and the misappropriation of state funds b [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Ten alleged Al-Qaeda members shouted defiance on Sunday when they went on trial over an April 2008 explosion near the offices of a Canadian energy company in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
The defendants, aged between 25 and 40 years of age, refused to answer questions from Judge Mohsen Alwan, who adjourned the hearing until Monday in order to interrogate them in pairs.
It is al [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has written to his Canadian counterpart, Lawrence Cannon, asking for a full investigation into the murders of three Iranians in the past six months, Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.
The letter was to "insist on the responsibility of the Canadian government regarding the rights of Iranian citizens and to ask that Canadian secu [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Talks between the United Arab Emirates and Canada over granting Emirati carriers more routes have been "exhausted," the minister of economy said in statements published on Saturday.
"We have exhausted all the terms of negotiations with the Canadians over six years," Sultan bin Said al-Mansuri said, according to the website of the newspaper, The National.
The UAE has asked for dai [...]
THE HAGUE (AFP) - A Canadian report implicating Hezbollah in the assassination of Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri could endanger certain lives, the prosecutor of a UN-backed court into the 2005 killing said Tuesday.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired a documentary Monday citing unidentified sources saying UN investigators had evidence that "points overwhelmingly" to the involve [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN investigators have overwhelming proof that Hezbollah militants carried out the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, Canadian broadcaster CBC said Monday.
The United Nations expressed concern that leaks of the special tribunal on Lebanon's inquiries could influence its work on the 2005 bomb blast.
CBC said evidence gathered by Lebanese detectiv [...]
OTTAWA (AFP) - Granting the United Arab Emirates' national carriers more routes would have cost Canada "tens of thousands of jobs," a Canadian official said Friday.
Commenting on the commercial spat-turned diplomatic row, former transport minister John Baird said: "We had negotiations with the United Arab Emirates. The offer that was on the table was not in the best interest of Canada.
"It wou [...]
MONTREAL (AFP) - Canada has found itself entangled in a complex row after its refusal to grant UAE airlines new routes soured bilateral relations and forced the closure of a military base in Dubai.
The commercial feud erupted onto the political scene this week after Canada's transport agency declined to grant the UAE's two national carriers, Emirates Airlines and Etihad Airways, more landing ri [...]
OTTAWA (AFP) - An aviation row has forced Canada to prepare the evacuation of a military base in the United Arab Emirates, a key supply route to Afghanistan, Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said Monday.
"At this point, we will abide by the wishes of the Emirates, and that is that we will be leaving the base," MacKay was quoted by Canadian media as telling reporters in Kandahar, A [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Canada's ties with the United Arab Emirates will be "affected" by the lack of an agreement to expand aviation links between the two countries, the UAE's ambassador to Canada was quoted as saying Sunday.
"The UAE is disappointed that despite intensive negotiations over the last five years, the UAE and Canada have been unable to arrive at an agreement on expanding the number of flig [...]
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