WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.
– At least 30 people are considered dead after a Russian missile hit an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Sunday. According to the adviser of the region’s governor, 30 more people are in hospital and 30 to 40 more are still expected to be under the debris. “The chances of saving people now are minimal,” Dnipro’s Mayor Borys Filatov told Reuters. “I think the number of dead will be in the dozens.” The projectile that hit the building was a Soviet-era Kh-22 missile used to attack warships, according to Ukraine’s military.
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– Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested by Italian police on Monday after having been on the run since 1993. Messina Denaro, who had been previously tried in absentia and convicted for several murders, faces multiple life sentences. Along with the murders, he is also set to be imprisoned for bombings in Sicily in 1992, as well as bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan in 1993.
– Monday marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, a federal holiday observed every year on the third Monday of January, honouring the Black American civil rights leader assassinated in 1968. Stock and bond markets in the U.S. are closed today.
