CANADA
#1 — CNews | Baby Joseph dies at his home
LONDON, Ont. — Joseph Maraachli, the infant who became the centre of an international right-to-life controversy, died at his family’s Windsor, Ont., home Tuesday.
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#2 — Globe | Double vision: Flaherty’s fiscal forecasts win out over watchdog’s
Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page releases his latest forecast Thursday challenging the Conservatives’ deficit numbers, but a review of his record to date reveals his estimates are less accurate than the government’s.
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#3 — LFP | Former Ont. premier Davis endorses Hudak
Twelve hours after Dalton McGuinty evoked his legacy in the TV debate, former Tory premier Bill Davis gave Tim Hudak a solid, if not resounding, endorsement Wednesday.
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NP | McParland: Premier Dad comes under assault in Ontario debate
#4 — NP | National Post sees significant readership gains online and in print
The National Post has seen significant readership gains nationally, and especially in the key market of Toronto, according to the latest NADbank figures released Wednesday.
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#5 — OC | Poverty costing taxpayers $24B a year: report
OTTAWA — The federal government should make a billion-dollar investment to eradicate the root causes of poverty, or face billions more in ongoing expenses, a new report says.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Five severed heads left outside Mexican school
Mexican police have found five decomposing heads left in a sack outside a primary school in Acapulco.
Handwritten messages were also found, reportedly threatening the state governor as well as local drug lords.
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#7 — Fox | Al Qaeda in Yemen Call Ahmadinejad a 9/11 Truther
The latest edition of a glossy al Qaeda-run magazine is out, and it slams Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the equivalent of a Sept. 11 “truther” — someone who accuses the U.S. government of initiating the 2001 terror attacks on the United States.
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DebkaFile | The end of Ahmadinejad. His cronies barred from election
A Spanish island popular with British holidaymakers is preparing for a mass evacuation because of a possible volcanic eruption.
Experts have recorded 150 tremors on El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, since yesterday – raising fears of an imminent eruption.
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BRITISH businessman Shrien Dewani, who allegedly arranged for the murder of his new wife on honeymoon, is to be extradited to South Africa.
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#10 — Telegraph | Russia’s former finance chief attacks Kremlin over fake democracy
Russia’s ex-finance minister dealt a fresh blow to the Kremlin on Tuesday, disclosing that it had asked him to lead a fake political party but that he had refused to take part in the deception.
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