Globe Trot: Canadian officials delay D.C. trip after Keystone vote

CANADA:Yesterday’s 59-41 vote in the U.S. Senate against building the Keystone XL Pipeline will go down in the poli-sci textbooks for gamesmanship in its failed effort to win a December runoff for Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. But 1,700 miles away, Canadians are actually thinking about energy and the economy, and Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says he’ll wait to go to Washington in January—when the political climate of a Republican-led Congress is more conducive. Most in the north favor the underground pipeline, which would link the tar sands fields of Alberta with the oil refineries of Texas’ gulf coast.

ISRAEL: Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zahri praised what he called “the Jerusalem operation” and called for a “continuation of the revenge operations,” after an attack yesterday on a Jerusalem synagogue killed five, including three American rabbis.

RUSSIA: Is belligerence a cover for desperation? Export prices for Russian oil have fallen 30 percent in recent months, and former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov says Russia’s economy will face meltdown in 2015-16—and that’s before Western sanctions against Vladimir Putin take effect.

VATICAN: “The sexual revolution is not liberation at all, but simply the imposition of a different sort of patriarchy,” said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, in a statement on sexual ethics yesterday at an international colloquium convened by Pope Francis.

JORDAN: The government jailed and deported American pastor Jody Miller of Grace Church in Amman, likely for preaching to Muslims.

ROMANIA: Klaus Iohannis upset Victor Ponta in Romania’s presidential runoff election Sunday, as voters chose an ethnic German and religious Lutheran over a candidate from the politically powerful Romanian Orthodox Church. Iohannis also is the most popular European head of state on Facebook.

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