Trudeau accuses China of 'aggressive' election interference
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused China of attempting to interfere in the country's elections.
Mr Trudeau accused Beijing of playing "aggressive games" with democracies and of targeting Canadian institutions.
It comes as local media report that Canadian intelligence identified a "clandestine network" of Beijing-backed candidates at recent elections.
At least 11 candidates were supported by China in the 2019 federal elections, officials reportedly told Mr Trudeau.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said it has "no interest" in Canada's internal affairs.
Mexico will try to ‘deceive the world’ at Cop27, experts warn
President not expected to attend summit but critics cast doubt on veracity of pledges the country could make
Mexico, one of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters, is expected to announce a hotchpot of old, inadequate and undeliverable climate pledges that will leave its Paris pledges in tatters, experts have warned.
Climate action has nosedived under the leadership of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had to be blocked from rolling back Mexico’s modest Paris greenhouse gas targets by the country’s supreme court, and emissions are rising.
Poland’s ruling party leader blames low birthrate on binge drinking women
Poland’s ruling party leader has sparked outrage and mockery by claiming the country’s declining birthrate was partly due to binge drinking by women.
Opposition politicians accused Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a 73-year-old lifelong bachelor, of being out of touch.
They said the Law and Justice Party leader, Poland’s most powerful politician since 2015, was anyway himself partly responsible for the relatively low birthrate in the nation of 38 million.
Will China's emboldened Xi Jinping take a gamble on Taiwan?
China's leader holds more power than ever before. Beijing denies having an accelerated timeline on Taiwan "reunification," but defense analysts say military preparation has been ongoing for years.
The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) congress, which concluded late last month, has put Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the peak of his power, with political opponents swept aside and Xi's governing doctrine at the core of CCP policymaking.
During Xi Jinping's 10 years in power, Beijing has taken an aggressive stance on "reunifying" Taiwan with mainland China. The CCP considers the democratic, self-ruled island as part of China's territory.
At the congress, the CCP enshrined into party doctrine a statement, "resolutely opposing and deterring separatists seeking 'Taiwan independence.'" Xi also reiterated his goal of achieving "peaceful" unification with Taiwan, with the use of force remaining an option to achieve the task, if necessary.
Parents of missing Tunisians dig up migrant graves: witnesses
The parents of Tunisian migrants missing since their boat sank in September have dug up graves in a cemetery hoping to locate and retrieve their dead offspring, witnesses said Tuesday.
In late September, a small boat sank after departing Zarzis in southeastern Tunisia with 18 migrants on board. Eight bodies, including several Tunisians, were subsequently recovered.
Four bodies of Tunisians were buried by mistake in the Garden of Africa, a cemetery for drowned migrants from elsewhere on the continent -- many of whom remain unidentified and or unclaimed.
Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador says homosexuality is ‘damage in the mind’
Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman has said homosexuality is “damage in the mind,” in an interview with German broadcaster ZDF on Monday.
The interview, filmed in Doha less than two weeks before the start of the tournament, was immediately stopped by an official from the World Cup organizing committee.
During the interview, Salman was discussing the issue of homosexuality being illegal in Qatar.
Salman told ZDF that being gay was “haram,” meaning forbidden according to Islamic law. “It is damage in the mind,” Salman said.
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