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Spain calls for blockade of Somali pirate ports

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:40:00 +0000

MADRID — Spain wants EU naval forces to blockade three Somali ports used to launch pirate attacks against ships in the Indian Ocean, Defence Minister Carme Chacon said Wednesday. She said Spain will...

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Japan offers aid to Afghanistan

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:46:00 +0000

Japan's Government has pledged $5bn (£3bn) in new aid to Afghanistan over the next five years. The decision comes days before US President Barack Obama visits Tokyo. Japan's centre-left government...

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APEC to maintain stimulus till recovery in place: draft

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:43:00 +0000

SINGAPORE — APEC leaders will maintain hefty stimulus packages until they secure a "durable" recovery from the global economic slowdown, according to a draft communique obtained by AFP Friday. "We...

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US envoys hold rare meeting with Myanmar PM: official

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:43:00 +0000

YANGON — The highest-level US officials to visit Myanmar in 14 years held talks Wednesday with the military-ruled country's prime minister, Thein Sein, a Myanmar official said. Assistant Secretary of...

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One person dead, another in hospital, after shooting in Surrey, B.C.

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:51:00 +0000

SURREY, B.C. — A woman is dead and a man is in hospital with serious injuries after a double shooting at a house party in B.C.'s Lower Mainland. Police were called to the house in Surrey early...

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North Toronto home destroyed by explosion

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:43:00 +0000

Police and fire officials suspect a natural gas leak may be responsible for an explosion that ripped through a home in north Toronto on Wednesday night. The explosion and subsequent fire destroyed a...

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Zimbabwe leaders in split unity government meet

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:46:00 +0000

HARARE, Zimbabwe — An aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says the former opposition leader who has temporarily withdrawn from a coalition with President Robert Mugabe has held a four-hour...

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UN team to visit Iran uranium plant

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:34:00 +0000

TEHRAN — UN inspectors were on Sunday set to visit a second Iranian plant for uranium enrichment, which lies at the heart of Western concerns about Tehran's nuclear programme. The team of...

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Nurse says she didn't consider doc's note on N.S. mentally ill man an order

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:34:00 +0000

HALIFAX, N.S. — The nurse who admitted a man to a Nova Scotia jail where he later died knew about a doctor's note requiring the inmate to receive a psychiatric exam, but the nurse told an inquiry...

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Bryant case put over until mid-November

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:05:00 +0000

A Toronto court will hear criminal charges against Ontario's former attorney general Michael Bryant on Nov. 16. Bryant was charged following an accident that resulted in the death of a bicycle...

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Hurricane Rick grows to Category 5 storm

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:41:00 +0000

Hurricane Rick has strengthened to an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Saturday. Meteorologists at the Miami-based agency...

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Clinton would have tapped Obama if elected

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:39:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would "absolutely" have selected Barack Obama to serve in her administration if she had of won last November's US presidential elections, she said...

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Afghan quits election fraud panel

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:57:00 +0000

An Afghan member of a UN-backed panel investigating allegations of fraud in the presidential election has resigned, blaming "interfering foreigners". Mustafa Barakzai was one of two Afghans on the...

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Tories' partisan push on bureaucrats equals corruption, Liberals charge

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:34:00 +0000

OTTAWA — A government-wide partisan push by the Conservatives on civil servants amounts to a form of corruption, Liberals charged Friday. The official Opposition is reacting to a report by The...

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Ex army chief to join opposition party: reports

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:59:00 +0000

MANCHESTER — Former army head Richard Dannatt, who has strongly criticised the government over Afghanistan, is to sign up for the main opposition Conservative party, reports said Wednesday. Dannatt...

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Broadway performance canceled when actor falls ill

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:31:00 +0000

NEW YORK - A preview performance of the Broadway revival of "The Royal Family" has been canceled after one of its stars became ill on stage. Show spokesman Aaron Meier says the curtain came down...

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Tories survive Liberal no-confidence motion

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:51:00 +0000

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s minority government has survived a Liberal no-confidence motion with help from the NDP, averting an election. The Liberal motion, supported by the Bloc Québécois, was...

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Harper will pay contract obligations on reactor delays

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:33:00 +0000

The federal government will only pay what is required under contract to defray costs associated with the 16-month delay of the Point Lepreau refurbishment project, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said...

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Ashton mulls ban on replacement workers

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:54:00 +0000

Manitoba companies could be banned from hiring replacement workers during strikes if MLA Steve Ashton becomes premier. Ashton said he is willing to consider passing a law that would forbid companies...

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Manitoba, Ontario writers win ReLit awards

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:21:00 +0000

Mike Blouin of Oxford Mills, Ont., near Ottawa, has won the ReLit Award for his novel Chase & Haven, published by Coach House Press. He was named as winner for fiction on Sunday by Kenneth Harvey,...

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Advance ticket sales brisk for "Twilight" sequel

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:52:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – This "New Moon" is rising early. Advanced tickets sales for Summit Entertainment's sequel vampire romance "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" are going so well that...

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Brown confident of agreement at G20 summit

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:59:00 +0000

PARIS — Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed confidence Tuesday an agreement would be reached at next week's G20 summit after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who wants to curb bankers'...

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Disney to expand Fantasyland at Walt Disney World

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:44:00 +0000

ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) – Mickey Mouse's house and his Toon Town world will make way next year for a vastly larger Fantasyland, in the biggest-ever expansion of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney...

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Lake Wobegon's Keillor recovering from mild stroke

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:12:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – American author and humorist Garrison Keillor suffered a minor stroke and is undergoing medical tests in Minnesota, hospital officials said on Wednesday. Keillor, 67, best...

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Science, Renaissance experts win Italy's Balzan Prize

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:09:00 +0000

MILAN — The prestigious Balzan Prize was awarded Monday to a British expert on Renaissance literature, a Canadian neuroscience pioneer, an Italian science historian and a Swiss-German solar cell...

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