The Canadian Parvasi - Issue 31

The International News Weekly World
April 20, 2018 | Toronto 06
Trudeau to meet Queen, compare notes
with British PM Theresa May in London
Agency
LONDON : An audience
with the Queen will highlight
Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau's first full day
in the United Kingdom on
Wednesday, as he nears
the end of a three-country
tour that has already taken
him to Peru and France.
The real work will
come when the prime minister
sits down with his
British counterpart, Theresa
May, as the two leaders
look to compare notes
on everything from Syria
and Russia to Brexit and
the Commonwealth.
Trudeau arrived in
London on Tuesday night
following a two-day stop
in France where he and
French President Emmanuel
Macron appeared to
strike up a solid political
alliance aimed at advancing
progressive policies on
the world stage.
The U.K. is one of Canada's
most important allies,
and Trudeau has been
steadfast in supporting
May's criticism of Russia
following the poisoning of
a former Russian spy last
month and last week's airstrikes
in Syria by British,
French and U.S. forces.
However, Trudeau
isn't on the same wavelength
with May the way
he is with Macron, which
suggests the tone and substance
of the discussion
could be very different.
The focus will be on
laying the groundwork
for a Canada-U.K. free
trade agreement after Britain
leaves the European
Union, as well as mutual efforts
to push back against
Russian aggression and
defending democracy in
Europe.
Trudeau will also seek
to get May to buy into Canada's
priorities for the G7,
which includes stepping
up the fight against climate
change and advancing
Trudeau's push for progressive
trade and gender
equality.
Success would give
Trudeau two key allies —
May and Macron — at a
time when U.S. President
Donald Trump has withdrawn
from a key climatechange
agreement and
launched unprecedented
attacks on free trade.
The prime minister
is also expected to meet
with London Mayor Sadiq
Khan, New Zealand Prime
Minister Jacinda Ardern
and representatives from
various island states in
advance of Thursday's
Commonwealth leaders'
summit. Trade will top the
summit's agenda — particularly
in the face of Britain's
imminent departure
from the EU and a natural
impulse to look to its former
colonies as new trade
partners.
Brexit is also being
seen as a potential catalyst
for re-energizing the Commonwealth,
thanks to a
newly engaged British government,
following years
of questions about the organization's
importance.
The meeting, whose
participants include a
number of African and
Asian countries such as
Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda,
Pakistan and Bangladesh,
is also expected to tackle
concerns about human
rights and democracy.
One issue close to
Trudeau's heart that won't
get individual billing during
the London meeting,
however, will be LGBTQ
rights; member states have
taken it off the agenda.
Bodies of Indian family
missing in US found
Indo-Asian News Service
Washington : The bodies of all four members of an
Indian family, which perished when their sport utility
vehicle plunged into a river in California earlier this
month, have been found,
the authorities said.
Searchers recovered
the submerged bodies of
Sandeep Thottapilly, 41,
and his daughter, Saachi,
9, from the Eel River in
Leggett, California, on
Sunday, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said in a
statement on Monday. A body recovered last week was
later identified as Thottapilly's wife, Soumya, 38. The
body of the couple's son, Siddhant, 12, was discovered
around 4 p.m. on Monday. He was the last to be found,
ABC-owned TV station KABC cited the authorities as
saying.
The family were on a road trip to Oregon and were
returning to their home in California, when they went
missing. They were reported missing on April 8 when
they failed to show up for a visit at their relatives place
in San Jose. Bodies of Thottapilly and his daughter were
found inside the SUV lying submerged between 4 and
6 feet of water. The smell of gasoline coming from the
water led divers to the vehicle, the Mendocino County
Sheriff's Office said. The vehicle was encased in a large
amount of sediment from the river current and it took
hours for the car to be towed out, leading to the removal
of the two bodies, the sheriff's office was cited as saying
by the New York Times.
The boy's body was found about six miles north of
where the family's vehicle was said to have crashed.
The California Highway Patrol said it did not believe
there was any foul play.
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