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Obamas transparent NSA interview points debunked
USA Despite reports indicating the opposite US President Barack Obama has continued to perpetrate the vague assertion that the controversial NSA surveillance programs, primarily PRISM, are responsible for stopping a major terrorist attack in New York City. American officials have maintained that the National Security Agency has been "transparent" in its explanation of mass ...
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Cluster bomb victims call on Canada to ratify convention to ban dirty weapon
Raed Mokaled is pictured in Geneva in April, 2013 at a major international meeting on the Convention on Cluster Munitions. His son, Ahmad, was killed on his fifth birthday by a cluster bomb near their home in Lebanon in February 1999. Mokaled now works to have the weapons banned. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike ...
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Outside View America strikes out
Using a baseball metaphor, in the field of national security, when the United States comes to bat, it often starts with 2 1/2 strikes against it. Strike 1 is the chronic tendency to misinterpret, distort and even invent threats often for politically expedient reasons. Strike 2 is the failure to address the question of "what next?" once crucial foreign or national security policy ...
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Barack Obama to invoke call of history in Berlin speech
Barack Obama will invoke the Cold War history of German-US solidarity in a speech he will give today on his first visit to Berlin as ...
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Calif.-based burger chain Johnny Rockets sold
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -; Johnny Rockets, the Southern California-based burger chain with 1950s flair, has been sold to a private equity firm that targets underperforming and specialty ...
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Boy 6 dies after dog attack at N. Calif. home
UNION CITY, Calif. -; A 6-year-old San Francisco Bay Area boy died after he was attacked by a dog that belongs to his uncle, who is a police officer, authorities and a family spokesman said ...
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Govt report Smooth launch unsure for health law
WASHINGTON - There's no guarantee that President Barack Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first in-depth independent look at its progress.But in a report to be released Wednesday, the congressional Government Accountability Office also sees positive signs as the Oct. 1 deadline approaches for new health insurance markets ...
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Misconduct investigations put Canada in different light
MONTREAL - Canada, among the 10 least corrupt countries in the world the past six years according to rankings by Transparency International, is mired in scandals. Quebec’s anti-corruption task force Monday arrested Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum over fraud allegations, adding to controversies rocking political circles in Toronto and Ottawa that have taken the shine off Canada’s ...
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House of Commons adjourns for the summer
The most bitter spring sitting of parliament since Stephen Harper's Conservatives came to power more than seven years ago has ended with a rare piece of agreement -- unanimous consent to adjourn for the summer. All parties agreed late Tuesday night to pull the plug after almost a month of late-night sittings. The House of Commons calendar had MPs remaining at work in Ottawa through the ...
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2 men jailed in Dominican wedding fight return to Canada
Stacey Vernon poses with her new husband, Nick Miele, just hours before he was arrested after a fight at the Bahia Principe Esmeralda resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. (Courtesy Vernon ...
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Botched surgery fueled attack at Vancouver 7-11 Judge
A hostage-taking at a 7-11 in downtown Vancouver in November 2012 was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, B.C. Provincial Court heard Tuesday. (QMI Agency files) VANCOUVER -- A hostage-taking at a downtown Vancouver 7-11 last year, in which a woman was nearly set on fire, was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, ...
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Experimental cancer test grafts tumours into mice to create customized treatment for patients
When a CT scan showed that Yaron Panov’s sarcoma had returned, the news from some of Canada's top specialists in the rare cancer was grim: surgery would require cutting out his spleen, a kidney and chunks of other organs. In other words, removing the tumour was not an option. What's more, chemotherapy had little chance of working either, doctors said. It was April 2011 and Mr. ...
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President Obama gives no clear view on the necessity of national security programs
View results President Obama has had difficulty finding his footing and has been late to the game in defending federal intelligence surveillance programs as a valuable weapon for thwarting terrorist plots, national security analysts say.When Mr. Obama appeared on TV with PBS ...
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Mich. woman ordered to trial on false rape report
PORT HURON, Mich. -; A Michigan woman accused of faking a sexual assault was ordered to stand trial on charges of making a false report of rape and tampering with evidence Tuesday after a doctor said her purported bruises faded after he wiped them with ...
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Americas looming helium disaster
Imagine that you sustain an injury, sending you to the hospital. The doctor orders an MRI. But the critical material that allows the MRI to operate - liquid helium - is not available. So you don’t receive your MRI and a proper diagnosis cannot be made. If Congress does not act on bipartisan legislation by Sept. 30, such a scenario is a very real possibility in the near future.On that date, ...
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A Scandal of scandals — with Obama at center
Terence Stamp doesn't think the new 'Man of Steel' stacks up Don’t expect to see Terence Stamp - who played baddie General Zod in ...
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Obama’s Second-Term G-8 Dance Card Judo With Putin Trade and Syria
. Europeans also see a free-trader pressuring the French to bow before the altar of low tariffs in pursuit of a U.S. and European trade pact. Just last week, White House officials feared they wouldn't even be able to announce the beginning of trade talks at the G-8 Summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Northern Ireland. Under sustained pressure from British Prime Minister David Cameron, ...
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Obama Putin express cautious optimism over Iran
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed "cautious" optimism on Monday that the election of a moderate cleric in Iran's presidential poll would open up dialogue with Tehran over its disputed nuclear program.In a private meeting following the press conference, however, the presidents said they would sign an agreement ...
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FC Edmonton coach Colin Miller to direct Canada’s men’s team at CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament
Colin Miller’s déjà vu season as Canada’s men’s national soccer team head coach continues. The FC Edmonton head coach will be the interim coach for a third time in 2013, as the team gets set for next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup. Here, Miller is pictured at Commonwealth Stadium when he was named head coach for FC Edmonton of the North American Soccer League in ...
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‘Ultimate trivialization of the Zionist dream’ Rabbis say sexy tourism ads for Tel Aviv ‘disgusting’
A youth outreach program of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs that caused a buzz by using oral sex jokes to promote tourism in Israel three years ago, is once again under fire for using group sex to advertise ';sexy, secular and sassy'; Tel Aviv to young Jewish Canadians. Reaction from Canadian rabbis to the new online ad from CIJA’s ';Size Doesn’t ...
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The hunt for an untainted Montreal mayor resumes following latest resignation
MONTREAL -- The hunt for an untainted Montreal mayor resumed Tuesday as Michael Applebaum resigned one day after being arrested on 14 corruption-related charges. In a brief statement in the main foyer of City Hall, Mr. Applebaum maintained his innocence and vowed to fight the charges but said it was in the city's best interest for him to step ...
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Bono enjoys lunch with Obama family
IRISH rocker Bono has enjoyed a very special lunch date after inviting US First Lady Michelle Obama to join him for lunch at his favourite local ...
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Extending a Hand Abroad Obama Often Finds a Cold Shoulder
The next morning, Mr. Xi punched back, accusing the United States of the same computer hacking tactics it attributed to China. It was, Mr. Obama acknowledged, "a very blunt ...
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Michelle Obama under fire for $5 million Ireland visit
Michelle Obama waves during a visit to Finnegans Pub in Dalkey, Ireland on June 18.(Photo:Agencies) U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama won't exactly be roughing it during her two-day trip to Ireland, reports the Washington Times. Mrs. Obama is staying at a $3,300-per-night hotel suite in Dublin's five-star Shelbourne hotel. She and her entourage have booked 30 rooms in the hotel. The ...
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Job action by foreign service hurting Canadian tourism industry
Hundreds of foreign service officers walks out of Department of Foreign Affairs headquarters June 06, 2013 in Ottawa. (Dave Chan for The Globe and ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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