Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to announce steps towards a federal ban on single-use plastics on Monday.
That's according to a government official, who said the list of items to be banned will be determined on a science-based review.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Trudeau's government will follow a plastics ban approved by the European Union.
It could come into effect as early as 2021.
Sources say Azerbaijan Airlines flight was downed by Russian air defence system
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.
Thousands mark 20 years after deadly Indian Ocean tsunami
Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia in ceremonies on Thursday to mark the disaster that killed some 230,000 people.
Russia says it prevented Ukrainian plots to kill high-ranking officers
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had foiled several plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill high-ranking Russian officers and their families in Moscow using bombs disguised as power banks or document folders.
Israeli airstrike kills five journalists in central Gaza
Five Palestinian journalists were killed when their marked media van was struck by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza's Nuseirat on early Thursday, the enclave's health authorities said.
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