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Trudeau Says He Did Nothing Wrong

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03/08/2019

03/08/2019

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Trudeau Says He Did Nothing Wrong

Top News: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday addressed head-on the controversy that has beset his government in recent weeks.

He is facing calls to step down over allegations that members of his administration tried to get his former attorney general not to prosecute SNC-Lavalin, an engineering firm, over accusations that it paid bribes to the family of former Libyan strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi.

“I continue to say that there was no inappropriate pressure,” Trudeau said.

Central America: Gun violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador is driving migration to the United States, experts say, and the United States is the top exporter of guns to the region. The Trump administration is set to make arms deals with these countries even easier than they already are by rolling back congressional oversight of many such gun sales.

AFRICA

•  Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika accused demonstrators protesting his 20-year rule of destabilizing the country.

•  Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, to protest against President Omar al-Bashir. Security forces rounded up some of the protesters.

•  Due to drought and violence in Ethiopia, some 8 million people there are in need of food, according to the country’s government.

AMERICAS

•  Much of Venezuela is experiencing electrical blackouts.

•  Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, Funai, launched a rare expedition to contact an isolated tribe in the Amazon.

•  Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, received a 47-month prison sentence for bank and tax fraud, a result that many commentators criticized as too lenient.

ASIA

•  The United States remains open to nuclear talks with North Korea, according to the White House, despite new evidence that the North has begun to reactivate some parts of its missile program.

•  Police in India arrested an alleged militant in connection with a grenade attack in Indian-administered Kashmir on Thursday that left at least two people dead and injured approximately 30 others.

•  A court in Indonesia ruled that construction will be allowed to proceed on a dam located in an endangered orangutan habitat.

EUROPE

•  Finland’s government resigned after failing to reform the country’s healthcare system and make other welfare reforms.

•  Women went on strike in Spain in recognition of International Women’s Day.

•  Two anti-corruption parties in Romania, PLUS and the Save Romania Union, are appealing a decision by the EU’s central electoral bureau preventing them from running jointly in Europe-wide elections.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Britain is set to grant diplomatic status to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British aid worker imprisoned in Iran, in an effort to pressure Tehran to release her.

•  The British Ministry of Defense claimed that the Royal Air Force had harmed only one civilian out of more than 4,000 people killed by airstrikes in Iraq and Syria between September 2014 and this January. Critics said this was unlikely.

•  Liberal and ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a protest by Women of the Wall, a group seeking equal rights for women to pray at the site.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Tatyana Zenkovich/AFP/Getty Images)

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