CANADA
Trudeau plans carbon tax
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that Canada will impose a tax on carbon emissions starting in 2018 as part of its efforts to meet targets set by the Paris climate change accord. Trudeau made the announcement in Parliament on Monday as debate started over whether Canada should ratify the Paris accord on climate change. The House of Commons is expected to approve the Paris accord in a vote on Wednesday.
ITALY
Thousands rescued at sea
The Italian coast guard says 6,055 migrants have been rescued in one day in the Mediterranean off Libya. Nine bodies were recovered. The coast guard said it coordinated a total of 39 rescues Monday in the sea about 30 miles north of Tripoli. Smugglers took advantage of the first day of calm seas after days of rough waters to launch vessels crowded with migrants who pay them in hopes of reaching European shores. Most of the vessels were rubber dinghies, but there were also two rafts. Doctors Without Borders said the dead included a 23-year-old pregnant woman.
AFGHANISTAN
Taliban attack city in north
The Taliban launched a large-scale assault Monday on Kunduz, a northern Afghan city that briefly fell to the insurgents a year ago and was only fully liberated weeks later with the help of U.S. airstrikes. The insurgents reached a central roundabout and hoisted their flag, residents said on condition of anonymity, fearing retribution. But Amruddin Wali, a member of the provincial council, said security forces still control the airport, police headquarters, provincial government offices and the intelligence agency.
MEXICO
Canadian killed in robbery
The head prosecutor in the Mexican state of Yucatan said a Canadian photographer was slain by a hired driver who robbed her and tossed her body by a roadside. Yucatan state Attorney General Ariel Aldecua said Monday that Barbara McClatchie Andrews had hired the driver to take her from the resort area of Cancun back to Merida, the colonial city where she lived. The Canadian was found strangled Friday outside Merida. Aldecua said the motive appears to have been robbery. According to McClatchie Andrews’ website, her work had appeared in National Geographic.
Compiled from wire reports.
