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Justin Trudeau has sparked outrage after refusing to release the names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada after the Second World War. Jewish groups have called the decision, 'disgraceful' and say it dishonors Holocaust victims and survivors. The Canadian government is concealing the list of names amid fears it could be too embarrassing for the country... Large numbers of Ukrainian SS Waffen soldiers relocated to Canada following the war. ... The list of members of the Nazi-led SS Galicia unit was compiled by the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada. The panel then met...

Iran has announced the arrest of a person who recorded a video last week showing missiles striking the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed outside of Tehran – but it may be a case of mistaken identity. The person, who was detained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, is expected to face charges related to national security following the military mishap that downed the plane, according to Iranian media reports. Yet the London-based journalist who first posted that person’s footage on Twitter, the BBC says, is claiming that authorities have arrested the wrong individual. “The person who is a source of the video...

Lviv, 6 April: A Ukrainian battalion of radiological, chemical and biological defence completed its deployment to Kuwait yesterday. The last six flights with 26 servicemen and seven pieces of equipment on board took off from Lviv's Sknyliv military airfield yesterday, heading for Kuwait. Thus, the deployment of the 19th detached battalion to Kuwait has been completed. As of the morning of 5 April, a total of 422 Ukrainian troops and 118 units of equipment were stationed in Kuwait. [Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma took the decision to send the battalion to Kuwait in order to protect Kuwaiti civilian population from possible...

KIEV: The US ambassador to Ukraine said on Friday that American forces in Iraq have so far found no radar systems that Washington suspected were sold to Baghdad and would put American and British pilots at risk. The United States said last year it had verified the authenticity of a July 2000 recording in which Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is allegedly heard approving the sale of four Kolchuha radar systems to Iraq in violation of UN sanctions. US officials feared the systems could enable Iraq to target warplanes enforcing no-fly zones. Asked whether US forces had found evidence of Kolchuha...