Canada
#1 — CBC | Harper ‘Bloc bashing’: MP
The Bloc Québécois MP who accused the prime minister of sending propaganda to high school students says Stephen Harper is taking the opportunity to indulge in “Bloc bashing.”
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#2 — CNews | 100 days for repeatedly raping girl
CALGARY – Repeatedly raping and sodomizing a young girl in his mother’s day home has landed a Calgary man 100 days in detention.
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#3 — CNews | Laid-off man, wife celebrate $10M lotto win
EDMONTON – For Elizabeth and Micheal Kennedy, their $10 million Lotto Max win could not have come at a better time.
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#4 — Globe | Earl weakens to Category 1 storm
Hurricane Earl weakened to a Category 1 storm Friday as it churned up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada.
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Globe | Warnings as Hurricane Earl looks to come ashore near Yarmouth, N.S.
#5 — Globe | Bail for fourth man targeted in RCMP terror probe
A fourth man targeted in an RCMP terrorism probe has been released on bail, under orders not to go near his wife.
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#6 — Globe | Fight against mine could be a bloody affair
Ramping up pressure on the federal government, native leaders on Thursday expressed fierce opposition to a proposed copper-gold mine in the British Columbia Interior and warned of violent consequences if the project is approved.
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#7 — NP | MacNair: B.C. HST claims make a grim fairy tale
Piece by piece, the shroud of deceit that covers the truth surrounding the background dealings of the Harmonized Sales Tax in British Columbia is falling away from the B.C Liberal government. On Wednesday reports revealed that weeks before the 2009 B.C. election campaign in British Columbia even got underway, senior officials in the B.C. Finance Ministry were apprised of confidential details about the HST deal Ontario secured with Ottawa.
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#8 — FP | China orders state firms to explore Potash bid
HONG KONG/MELBOURNE — Chinese officials have ordered state-owned companies to meet with investment bankers to explore potential options to block BHP Billiton’s US$39-billion bid for Canada’s Potash Corp, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
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#9 — MG | Bellemare countersues Charest for $900,000
QUEBEC – The personal hostilities between Marc Bellemare and Premier Jean Charest escalated yet again yesterday as Bellemare filed a counter lawsuit against Charest that seeks $900,000 in damages.
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#10 — Star | Is a heart attack hiding in your hair?
If stress is making you pull your hair out, you might want to keep a couple of strands.
They could tell you if you’re also likely to suffer a heart attack.
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World
#11 — BBC | Quetta rally suicide bomb kills dozens
At least 42 people have died in a suicide bombing at a Shia Muslim rally in Quetta city, south-western Pakistan.
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#12 — BBC | UN calls meeting on food price concerns
The United Nations’ food agency has called a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rise in global food prices.
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#13 — BBC | Mid-East talks doomed, says Iranian leader Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians as futile and doomed to fail.
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#14 — BC | Liam Fox rejects sharing aircraft carriers with France
Defence Secretary Liam Fox has ruled out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation and efforts to save money.
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#15 — Fox | Jobless Rate Rises, Republicans Press Obama to ‘Change Course’
New employment figures released Friday fueled Republicans’ call for President Obama to replace his economic team and “change course,” as the president sought to put the best face on what many say is just more evidence of an economy stuck in neutral.
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#16 — Fox | Scope Sees New Details in Sunspot Bigger Than Earth
All-seeing eye of Sauron? Cosmic sunflower? Not quite. It’s actually a massive sunspot as you’ve never seen one before, captured in stunning high resolution.
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#17 — Fox | Iranian opposition leader’s home attacked in apparent attempt to keep him from key rally
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Pro-government militiamen attacked the home of an Iranian opposition leader with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt to keep him from attending a key rally on Friday.
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#18 — DM | Council worker provokes storm with outrageous Twitter comments
A senior council officer has sparked fury after claiming that it is acceptable for employers to slap their servants.
Rehana Mohamed made the comments on her Twitter account after watching a TV debate on the abuse of foreign domestic workers exploited by wealthy families.
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#19 — DM | Worshippers feared trapped in blazing Hare Krishna temple after an explosion
Firefighters were today battling to free worshipers believed to be trapped inside a temple following an explosion.
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#20 — DM | Amish man charged with string of sexual assaults on children, including his own cousin
A 26-year-old Amish man has been charged with sexually abusing five children, including his own cousin.
Chester Mast, who is a member of Missouri’s Pike County Amish Association, was arrested after his own community turned on him.
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#21 — Telegraph | Geert Wilders denounces Australian Muslim leader’s call for beheading
Geert Wilders, the maverick Dutch politician, denounced a Australian Muslim leader’s call for his beheading for denigrating Islam.
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#22 — Telegraph | Has Stephen Hawking ended the God debate?
Stephen Hawking has declared that his latest work shows there was no creator of the universe. But we shouldn’t imagine that will settle the God vs science debate, says Graham Farmelo.
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