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Chinese FM says Xi-Obama summit very successful
The first summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, Barack Obama, in California earlier this month was very successful, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday.Xi and Obama agreed to build a new model of major-power relations based on mutual respect, cooperation and all-win results, Wang told US Secretary of State John Kerry in a telephone conversation.The ...
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Obama United States not ready to go to war
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The assault appears aimed at decisively pushing rebels back and securing the suburb of the shrine, Abdel-Rahman said. Hezbollah fighters as well as Iraqi Shiite militiamen have been reported fighting in the area in the past weeks. The international community has been largely unable to end the Syrian civil war, now in its third year, which has killed nearly ...
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Russia rejects Obamas nuke cut proposal
US Navy guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (background) and a Russian diesel submarine take part in a naval parade at the harbour of Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok in this July 25, 2010 file photo. Russia marks Navy Day on Sunday. US President Barack Obama said on June 19, 2013, he will pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third below the level ...
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Lamphier Canada needs economic pipeline to Asia
Protesters against Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline gather outside the joint review final argument hearings in Terrace on Monday. The joint review panel on the project sits through June ...
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Talking Keystone Redford says Canada and U.S. share energy values
Visting New York for the third time 18 months, Premier Alison Redford stressed that Canada and the U.S. share environmental and political values over Keystone XL pipeline. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian ...
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B.C. First Nation sets fires to save bison
A First Nation band is reviving the age-old practice of controlled burning in order to improve the health of forests and restore the population of the wood bison in a corner of northeastern ...
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Status of Women conference aims to stop web exploitation
Canada's ministers responsible for the Status of Women ended a two-day conference Wednesday in northern P.E.I. expressing concerns about internet luring, cyber bullying and child sexual exploitation. Valerie Docherty, P.E.I.'s minister responsible for the Status of Women, hosted the meeting of federal, provincial and territorial ministers. The conference looked at ways to promote ...
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Teachers disciplined for duct-taping mouths sex and gross stories
(Fotolia) VANCOUVER -- A Vancouver teacher is being reprimanded for having chatty ...
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‘I felt a big zap’ Juno-award-winning jazz singer survives lightning strike at her Ottawa home
Lightning storms always put on a good show near Kellylee Evans’s country home outside of Ottawa and the one crackling across the sky on June 8 was especially spectacular. The Juno-award-winning jazz vocalist admired its menacing power from her kitchen window around 6 p.m. as she washed up from supper. She had just reassured her son, spooked by the booms sounding ominously close. Less ...
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Plot to kill Obama with ray gun
The FBI arrested 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford, from Galway, New York, and his friend Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, New York, foiling the pair's plan to kill Obama, who Crawford blamed for the recent Boston marathon bombings.Crawford had built a homemade X-ray machine that used deadly amounts of radiation to kill targets and could be detonated ...
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Obama revives call for reduction in nukes
BERLIN -- President Obama on Wednesday called for reducing the number of deployed U.S. strategic nuclear warheads by one-third if the Russian government agrees to a similar cut, reviving a goal outlined early in his presidency to work toward a world without nuclear ...
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Mexico coach denies strip club visit
Jose Manuel de la Torre has moved to dismiss rumours his Mexico players visited a strip club while on Confederations Cup duty. Reports in Brazil suggested the Mexico squad visited a strip club after their 2-1 loss to Italy on Sunday but their coach has denied the claims. "No. We don't have a report on that. It's not like there's even time to do that," he said. A ...
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Rebels Syrian forces used chemical weapons in attack on Zamalka
Syrian rebels and their supporters accused government forces of launching a chemical weapons attack on Zamalka Wednesday, killing three people. The Syrian Network for Human Rights in London said three people died in the alleged chemical attack. The group, whose figures were not independently confirmed, said a total of 83 people were killed in fighting across the war-torn country Wednesday. ...
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China Russia and Uzbekistan drop on U.S. human trafficking list
The U.S. State Department Wednesday downgraded China, Russia and Uzbekistan on its human trafficking list, meaning they could face sanctions. The department promoted Azerbaijan, Congo-Brazzaville and Iraq from its Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2. China, Russia and Uzbekistan were moved from the watch list to Tier 3 on the four-tier system. The shifts came as, for the first time, the department was ...
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Canadian warships join Port Hueneme military exercise
JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR Stef Ludin (left) and Joel LaLonde, who are both leading seamen and port inspector divers for the Royal Canadian Navy, aboard the HMCS Saskatoon, prepare to submerge a remote-operated vehicle Wednesday during a mine countermeasure exercise at Naval Base Ventura County Port Hueneme. Two ships from the Royal Canadian Navy are searching for fake mines off the coast ...
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Obama renews call to scale down nuclear weapons
U.S. President Barack Obama waves in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit look on. ...
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FIFAs Confederations Cup Brazil vs Mexico
Brazil's Neymar scores during the FIFA's Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 match against Mexico, held at Castelao Stadium, in Fortaleza, Brazil, on June 19, 2013. (Xinhua/Guillermo ...
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Iron Man 3 rakes in $400m in North America
"Iron Man 3" has grossed 400 million US dollars worth of tickets in North America since it debuted more than six weeks ago, distributor Walt Disney Pictures announced on Wednesday.The third installment on the iconic trilogy crossed the important threshold Tuesday, and is on track to gross 1.2 billion dollars from the global market. This has made the flick 5th highest grossing film of ...
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NOT THE TIMEPols Question Obama Call To Cut Nuclear Arsenal
President Obama's pledge to cut the United States' nuclear arsenal by one-third is sending the wrong message to the global community, some Washington lawmakers said Wednesday. "Now is not the time to pursue further strategic nuclear force reductions," Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said following Obama's speech in Berlin, Germany. Inhofe was among several lawmakers ...
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Obama kill plot pair arrested over plans to use giant death ray on President
TWO men have been arrested over a plot to kill US President Barack Obama with a giant homemade death ray. The FBI arrested 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford, from Galway, New York, and his friend Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, New York, foiling the pair's plan to kill Obama, who Crawford blamed for the recent Boston marathon bombings. Crawford had built a homemade X-ray machine that used ...
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Canada U.S. must work to become energy independent Alberta premier
Alberta Premier Alison Redford, (left to right) Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall listen in as British Columbia Premier Christy Clark responds to media questions during the press conference for the 2013 Western Premier's Conference in Winnipeg, Monday, June 17, 2013. (John Woods / THE CANADIAN ...
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Mask ban Canadas veiled protesters face 10 years jail
Protest A new Canadian law forbids people from wearing a mask or covering their face during a riot or so-called "unlawful assembly" in the country. The law carries a maximum ten-year sentence for anyone convicted of physically concealing their identity. Current Canadian law already forbids covering the face during a criminal act, although CBC reported that the statue, which ...
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Dozens of children removed from tiny Mennonite community
File photo of cattle. IAN KUCERAK/QMI AGENCY WINNIPEG - Dozens of children have been removed from a small Manitoba Mennonite community as an investigation continues into allegations many of them were physically abused. A man and woman were arrested Monday and charged with 27 counts of assault and assault with a weapon. They appeared in Brandon court Tuesday and were released on bail. The two ...
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East Wing Journal Michelle Obama Promotes Healthy Eating With a Grass-Roots Campaign
Michelle Obama 's senior policy adviser on nutrition, leaned over a pork dish, stabbed it with a fork, then delivered his approbation. ...
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Obama plans major push on global warming to curb emissions boost renewable energy
President Barack Obama speaks in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and we will do more," Obama said in Berlin. (AP ...
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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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