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At last it’s time for America to talk to the men from the Taliban
No more long dinners in Qatari restaurants, or idle afternoons in the capital's many shopping centres. Since they were first secretly delivered by US plane to Doha in 2010, the senior Taliban emissaries whom Washington hoped would eventually agree a peace deal with Kabul have not been rushed off their feet; efforts to kick-start a formal negotiating process to end the war repeatedly ...
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Tory MP bows to Elections Canada in fight over expenses
Shelly Glover was one of three Conservative MPs who had been fighting Elections Canada in court over their 2011 election spending. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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Chrysler agrees to recall 3 million Jeep SUVs in U.S. Canada
Chrysler at first staunchly refused the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's request to recall older Jeep Grand Cherokee, above, and Liberty SUV models because it did not agree with its assessment that the position of the fuel tank made the vehicles susceptible to catching fire in a collision. It eventually bowed to customer pressure and agreed to the recall. (Carlos ...
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Colin Miller to guide Canadian mens soccer team at Gold Cup
Colin Miller will be on the bench with Canada's men's soccer team at the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Miller returned as interim head coach after leading the squad in a game against Costa Rica last month in Edmonton. He was also Canada's coach at a camp in the U.S. earlier this year, and was Canada's interim head coach for part of 2003-04. "I feel very privileged and ...
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Has the lost bell of Batoche been found in Manitoba
The location of the 129-year-old bell of Batoche has been a mystery since 1991, when it disappeared from a Millbrook, Ont., Royal Canadian Legion branch. ...
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Ottawa’s cold wet spring ‘the definition of misery’ says Canada’s weatherman
OTTAWA -- We are Les Misrables this spring -- cold and wet and wearing fall clothes.In fact, the only reason we haven't challenged a record for rainfall in the past 30 days is that Environment Canada only measures records for individual calendar months.Early May was warm and sunny. But since then it's a mess."Let's just say we're selling raincoats," said Melanie ...
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Winnipeg mother of 4 becomes doctor at 48
The wine flowed, children danced and the music played until the wee hours of the morning. The neighbours didn't complain.....because pretty much everyone who lived on that inner-city block in Winnipeg was there. It was all in honour of one of the University of Manitoba's newest medical graduates ....Donna Neufeld, a 48 year old mother of four who can barely believe that M-D is ...
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List of worst Ontario roads released
Dufferin St. in Toronto was voted the worst road in Ontario in the CAA's 2013 survey. (QMI Agency files) For the second consecutive year, Dufferin St. has made the top of Canadian Automobile Association's list of worst roads for 2013. The annual list was released Tuesday and revealed four Toronto roads as among the most difficult to drive in Ontario, including Finch Ave. W., Bayview ...
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Obamas influence limitations on display at G-8
BERLIN (AP) -- Now a veteran of the international summit scene, President Barack Obama wielded significant influence over the agenda at this week's Group of Eight meetings, but had only modest success in achieving the results he ...
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Obama has not given up on tougher gun control reform insists Joe Biden
Joe Biden has insisted that the Obama administration has not given up on its push for tougher gun laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, and indicated that the White House will try to secure a ...
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Bizarro World Bill Ayers Accuses Obama of Terrorism
I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground member, gave some people the idea that Obama was a dangerous radical who couldn't be trusted in office. Add to the list of people who agree that Obama is a dangerous radical one Bill Ayers. Ayers is basically incapable of giving a non-entertaining interview -- remember ...
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Bob Wheelock Named Senior EP at Al Jazeera America
, the seasoned network news producer who spent nearly 30 years at ABC News, has been named senior executive producer at Al Jazeera America, the channel set to launch later this summer in place of Current. Wheelock has been with Al Jazeera since February 2012, when he joined the organization as ep of newsgathering for Al Jazeera English. He has been involved in the channels' launch, ...
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Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist. I'm in South Dakota today, sort of a ground zero for the XL Keystone Pipeline, that pipeline, owned by a Canadian corporation that will export tar sands oil to the rest of the world. This is the heart of ...
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Obamas Approval Ratings Plummet Since NSA Scandal Young Americans the Cause
President Obama's approval rating has taken a plunge in the wake of recent government scandals, plummeting from 53 percent to 45 percent in less than a month. The Obama administration has been mired in several high-profile scandals recently, from Benghazi to the IRS to the latest NSA spying catastrophe, and now the President's ratings reflect it. President Obama's approval rating ...
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Obama opens 24-hour trip to Germany will meet with leaders and speak at Brandenburg Gate
BERLIN - President Barack Obama is opening a 24-hour visit to Germany, the culmination of which will be a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. Obama will also hold meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government officials. He arrived in Berlin following a two-day summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations in Northern Ireland. The president's visit ...
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Video Obama US will meet Taliban ahead of Afghan-led peace process
President Obama said the United States will meet the Taliban for peace talks in Doha, but insisted an "Afghan-owned peace process is the best way to end the violence" in a region torn apart by a bloody 12-year ...
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Brazil-Mexico Preview Selecao gunning for semi-final berth
Luiz Felipe Scolari is spoilt for choice ahead of Brazil's second Confederations Cup game against Mexico at the Castelao. With the Selecao in fine form during their comprehensive 3-0 victory in Group A's opener against Japan, and star player Neymar expected to shake off a minor knock picked up in the game, the 64-year-old's main concern is deciding if to change a winning ...
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Michelle Obama daughters lunch with Bono at Irish pub
Michelle Obama and her daughters enjoyed lunch at a Dublin-area pub Tuesday with Bono during a whirlwind visit to Ireland. Before they arrived at Finnegans pub in Dalkey, County Dublin, the first lady, Sasha and Mallia visited the Wicklow Mountains National Park, a few miles south of Dublin, The Irish Times reported. They toured early medieval monastic sites in the park, escorted by George ...
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How about this Canada quiz eh
Spectators wave flags as Canada and the US play during the second half of their friendly women's soccer match in Toronto, June 2, 2013. (Mark ...
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Corruption drugs profanity Mayors pull lid off boring Canada
Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who was allegedly caught on video smoking crack cocaine, has been joined by Montreal's interim mayor, charged with corruption, fraud, and ...
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Boy 13 charged in wrestling death of girl 5
half brother NEW ORLEANS- A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb has been arrested after authorities say he told them he used TV wrestling moves on his 5-year-old half-sister, who died from the beating. Jefferson Parish sheriff's spokesman Col. John Fortunato says the boy was arrested Tuesday after a coroner's investigation found the girl died of multiple injuries, including ...
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Hero cop who sat next to Michelle Obama at State of the Union accused of raping women at gunpoint
Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero who sat next to the first lady during the 2009 State of the Union address was indicted yesterday after being accused of forcing two women to take heroin at gunpoint before raping ...
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Can Obamas Berlin Speech Match John F. Kennedys and Ronald Reagans
President Obama has been called one of the most eloquent of the modern presidents – and not without reason. That reputation will be put to the test tomorrow when he speaks in Berlin, a city which has served as the stage for two of the best-known modern presidential speeches: John F. Kennedy's "ich bin ein Berliner" address, which will see its 50th anniversary next week, and ...
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Video Yes We Scan- protest in Berlin ahead of Obama visit
Demonstrations take to the streets in Berlin to air grievances ahead of U.S. President Obama's visit to Germany. Rough Cut (no reporter ...
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Canada raises liability for offshore oil spills to $1-billion
The federal government will raise the bar for oil companies operating off the East Coast and in the Arctic, increasing the limit on their liability for environmental and other damage from a blowout or oil spill to $1-billion.Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said the $1-billion cap - up from $30-million in the Atlantic and $40-million in the Arctic - is part of the government's ...
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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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