CANADA
#1 — CNews | Murder-trial jury to visit spot where Stafford killed
LONDON, Ont. — Jurors trying Michael Rafferty for the murder of Victoria Stafford will visit the remote spot where the eight-year-old girl’s body was found, and where the Crown alleges she was sexually assaulted and killed.
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#2 — Globe | Federal Court refuses to remove third-party manager from Attawapiskat
A Federal Court judge has refused to remove the federal government’s third-party manager appointed to handle the affairs of a northern Ontario reserve.
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Globe | First Nations school can’t afford to pay its teachers
#3 — LFP | Woman declared dead, says she’s alive
STRATFORD, ONT. – Susan Campbell is afraid to look in her mailbox.
Lately, it’s been nothing but bad news addressed to “The Estate of the Late Susan Campbell.” The letters are eerie and they’ve shaken her 12-year-old son.
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#4 — NP | Pickton case ‘has all the familiar hallmarks of a police cover-up’: lawyer
Cameron Ward once had faith in B.C.’s Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, called to examine how police investigated the disappearance of dozens of sex trade workers from Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. From 1997 to 2002, the period under review, prostitutes were murdered by pig farmer Robert “Willie” Pickton, all along a prime police suspect.
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#5 — OC | Stephen Harper: Old Age Security changes are ‘being considered’
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday for the first time that his government is considering increasing the eligibility age for Canada’s Old Age Security (OAS) system, which provides benefits for people once they turn 65.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Syria forces ‘in Homs massacre’
More than 200 people have been killed by Syrian government forces in the city of Homs, opposition groups say.
Activists accused the military of carrying out a massacre after a night of shelling in the city. Unverified videos on the web showed many bodies.
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#7 — CNN | Bradley Manning faces court-martial in WikiLeaks case
(CNN) – Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, who is suspected of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret documents to the WikiLeaks website, will be court-martialed on charges that could lead to a sentence of life in prison, the Army said Friday in a statement.
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#8 — Fox | White House, GOP dispute significance of upbeat jobs report
Republicans on Friday downplayed the latest jobs report that showed the unemployment rate on a steady downward trend, describing the improvements as welcome but “anemic.”
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#9 — DM | Riddle of the Russian scientists drilling into ‘alien’ Antarctic lake (Update)
A team of Russian scientists has mysteriously lost contact with colleagues in the U.S. as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years.
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#10 — Telegraph | Taliban leader Mullah Omar ‘sent letter to Barack Obama’
Mullah Omar, the shadowy Taliban leader, has purportedly sent a letter to The White House indicating an interest in peace talks.
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Re: #6 — In my view the UN is useless and much like it’s earlier contemporary the League of Nations it should be dispensed with. It doesn’t save people — it kills them in their millions.