Glacier FarmMedia — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.
- United States forces have boarded a Venezuela-linked, Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic after pursuing it for weeks, reported the Associated Press on Wednesday. A U.S. military official said the vessel was pursued after it tried to evade a U.S. blockade on sanctioned oil vessels around Venezuela in December.
- Iran’s army chief Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami threatened preemptive military action over “rhetoric” targeting the country in comments Wednesday. Hatami’s comments come amid mounting anti-government protests in Iran and comments from U.S. President Donald Trump warning that if Tehran “violently kills peaceful protesters,” the U.S. “will come to their rescue.”
- Ongoing talks between world officials in Paris to end the war between Russia and Ukraine are seeing “concrete results,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff Kyrylo Budanov on social media Wednesday. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney together with other Ukrainian allies in the “coalition of the willing” signed a statement Tuesday pledging to help secure Ukraine from further Russian invasions if there is a viable peace deal.
- Carney will visit China next week, Jan. 13-17, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Wednesday. Trade is expected to be at the top of the agenda.
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