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Bombs kill 13 in Pakistan, intel agency targeted

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:52:00 +0000

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suicide car bombs tore through security offices in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 13 people and heavily damaging the Peshawar headquarters of the country's top intelligence...

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Bomb kills 24, wounds more than 100 in NW Pakistan

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:44:00 +0000

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people in the latest attack by suspected militants apparently aimed at...

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Ida hurricane watch for Mexico's Caribbean coast

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:44:00 +0000

CANCUN, Mexico — Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could...

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UN climate pact work moves on, deadline in doubt

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:35:00 +0000

BARCELONA, Spain — Negotiators at a U.N. climate conference in Spain further defined plans for reducing greenhouse emissions and continued work on a draft climate change treaty, with next month's...

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Canada's embassy in Cuba decrepit, non-secure: audit

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:06:00 +0000

OTTAWA — Tourists headed to sunny Cuba this winter may want to think twice about visiting the Canadian embassy in Havana - a new audit slams the operation for basic security problems. The...

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Less vaccine coming to Sask.

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:33:00 +0000

Saskatchewan's next shipment of swine flu vaccine will be much smaller than originally expected, the provincial Health Ministry says. The province announced Friday afternoon it has learned it will...

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UN signals delay in climate change treaty

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:33:00 +0000

UNITED NATIONS — Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled it was scaling back expectations of reaching agreement on a new treaty to slow global...

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More than 1,000 people at candle light vigil for hit-and-run victim

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:02:00 +0000

TORONTO — In silence, a stream of people walked through Toronto's gay community Sunday night, holding candles and retracing the fateful walk 27-year-old Christopher Skinner took a week ago. Many...

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Largest US sting on drug cartel arrests 300-plus

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:37:00 +0000

OKLAHOMA CITY — In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the...

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Vatican decision welcomed by B.C bishop

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:40:00 +0000

A former Anglican bishop in B.C. is welcoming the Vatican's offer to open its doors to disaffected Anglicans around the world. Pope Benedict XVI has approved a new structure that would recognize...

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Lahey charges prompt counselling for N.S. Catholics

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:49:00 +0000

A family counselling organization founded by the Roman Catholic Church is offering free services to parishioners of the Antigonish diocese in the wake of child pornography charges against their...

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Armenia, Turkey pursue 'soccer diplomacy'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:48:00 +0000

BURSA, Turkey — Turkey defeated longtime foe Armenia on a soccer field Wednesday — an event that had little significance in the world of sports but meant a lot in the arena of international...

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Extremists 'behind Jerusalem clash'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:08:00 +0000

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Muslim extremists of being behind recent violence in Jerusalem and said they spread baseless lies to "undermine the peaceful life" in the holy...

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Pakistan army: Commando raid frees 25 hostages

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:35:00 +0000

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistani commandos raided a building inside army headquarters early Sunday and freed 25 people held hostage for more than 18 hours by Islamist fighters, a military spokesman...

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Updated map of human genome to help fight against disease

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:51:00 +0000

PARIS — Scientists on Wednesday published the best-ever map of key variations across the human genome, an exploit aimed at honing the fight against inherited disease and gaining insights into our...

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Mountie to be charged with impaired driving following crash

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:06:00 +0000

A Vancouver-based RCMP officer faces charges of impaired driving following a single-vehicle crash at the south end of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge on early Saturday morning, according to...

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Woman charged after teen dies at party

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:31:00 +0000

A 40-year-old B.C. woman has been charged under a rarely used section of the Criminal Code in the death of a 16-year-old Maple Ridge girl last year. Police said Shannon Raymond was found dead the...

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Deficit-wary Liberals boycott dinner party

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:36:00 +0000

A Liberal boycott has forced the abrupt cancellation of a lavish evening of dinner and music for Nova Scotia MLAs. Stephen McNeil, leader of the Official Opposition, said his caucus decided not to...

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Winnipeg church aids Philippines flood victims

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:35:00 +0000

Members of Winnipeg's Filipino community are coming to the aid of their former homeland, where record floods have left more than 100 people dead or missing and thousands homeless. Roslyn Pamplona,...

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B.C. police chiefs call for civilian-led officer investigations

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:06:00 +0000

RCMP brass in B.C. and the chiefs of several municipal police forces say it is time the provincial government set up a new independent agency to investigate allegations of misconduct by police...

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African author Uwem Akpan says humbled by Oprah pick

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:24:00 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nigerian author Uwem Akpan, who is a Jesuit priest, said he was "humbled" that his debut collection of short stories was chosen by influential U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey...

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"The Beautiful Life" should stay in the closet

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:44:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Long, long ago, supermodels roamed the Earth. Then there was a cataclysm called the Aging, and we were left with the next evolution: regularmodels. Regularmodel...

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Ricky Gervais' "Lying" is hilarious, to be honest

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:49:00 +0000

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) – The first half-hour of "The Invention of Lying," co-directed and co-written by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, is so sharply fresh, clever and laugh-out-loud...

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Mississauga man charged in mother's death

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:09:00 +0000

A Mississauga, Ont., man was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the death of his mother. Peel police filed the charge against the 28-year-old man Wednesday afternoon, a few hours after...

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Not a parachute candidate

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:13:00 +0000

May already has the support of the former Green candidate for the riding, Andrew Lewis. But to win the nomination she still has to defeat local Green party member Stuart Hertzog, who has already...

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I worked on this film back in Sept.2005

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Daryl Lorette 1.0 Feed.I was hoping this would happen.Google has let me move all my feeds over at one time.A big time saver.

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NY deal reached over Monroe's last nude photos - Yahoo! News
NY deal reached over Monroe's last nude photos

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Patrick Swayze in hospital, The Beast will have to wait
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Heather Allin elected president of ACTRA Toronto