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Canada has strongly condemned China’s execution of four Canadian citizens on drug smuggling charges earlier this year, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Wednesday.
Joly revealed that all four individuals held dual citizenship and stated that Ottawa would appeal for leniency for other Canadians facing the death penalty in China.
"There are four Canadians that have been executed, and we are strongly condemning what happened," Joly told reporters, confirming they had been convicted on drug-related charges.
The Canadian Foreign Ministry clarified that Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian sentenced to death in 2019 for drug smuggling, had not been executed.
Canada-China relations have remained strained since 2018 when Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer, was arrested in Vancouver at the request of the Trump administration. In response, China detained two Canadian nationals. All three were released in 2021.
Earlier this month, Beijing imposed tariffs on more than U.S. $2.6 billion worth of Canadian agricultural and food products. The move was a response to Ottawa’s levies on Chinese electric vehicles, steel, and aluminum products last year.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa rejected Canada’s criticism, calling it an "irresponsible remark."
"China imposes severe penalties on drug-related crimes and maintains a 'zero tolerance' policy towards the drug problem," the embassy said in a statement, without confirming the executions.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced 680,000 children, nearly twice as many as last year, as armed groups seize more territory and basic services collapse, UNICEF warned on Wednesday.
A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a devastating wildfire that killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles earlier this year.
The 7th Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan has concluded in Russia with participants issuing a joint statement heavily hinting at a joint opposition to any foreign military infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges, and his lawyer said he would file a barrage of legal challenges to the first prosecution by the Justice Department against one of President Donald Trump's political enemies.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to attend a ministerial meeting in Paris on Thursday with representatives of Europe, the Arab world and other nations to discuss Gaza's post-conflict transition, according to three diplomatic sources.
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