CANADA
#1 — CNews | Tsunami Harley to be repaired, returned
VANCOUVER — A man who lost his family and nearly all his worldly possessions in the deadly Japanese tsunami last year will soon be reunited with his prized Harley-Davidson as a Victoria, B.C.-based motorcycle shop prepped it Sunday for its journey home.
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#2 — Globe | Charest rules out spring election after reaching a deal with striking students
Quebec Premier Jean Charest is ruling out a spring election after striking a tentative deal with students over tuition fee hikes, potentially ending one of the province’s most disruptive protest movements in years.
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#3 — LFP | Send profs back to school, experts say
Ontario’s post-secondary system could improve the quality of students’ education and save money by sending more professors back to class, some experts say.
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#4 — NP | Michael Rafferty’s defence team to make closing arguments in Tori Stafford trial
LONDON, Ont. — Jurors in the trial of the man charged with killing eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford will hear closing arguments from the defence Monday.
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OTTAWA — The 2000 contract killing of a Halifax man with ties to the Hells Angels could have been avoided if the RCMP had acted on a tip from a reliable informant, according to documents uncovered by the Citizen.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Israeli PM Netanyahu calls for early general election
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he wants the country’s general election to be held on 4 September, more than a year early.
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#7 — CNN | Senior al Qaeda operative killed by airstrike in Yemen
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) – A senior operative of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula wanted for his role in the USS Cole bombing was killed by an airstrike in Yemen on Sunday, Yemeni officials said.
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#8 — Fox | US secretly releasing Taliban fighters, report says
KABUL – The US has been secretly releasing captured Taliban fighters from a detention center in Afghanistan in a bid to strengthen its hand in peace talks with the insurgent group, the Washington Post reported Monday.
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced an ‘honest and unflinching’ inquiry into why young British jobseekers are ‘losing out’ to foreign workers.
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Telegraph | Johnson: What football teaches us about creating a thriving jobs market
#10 — Telegraph | Dinosaurs passing wind may have caused climate change
Afternoon Update May 7th, 2012 (10),Huge plant-eating dinosaurs may have produced enough greenhouse gas by breaking wind to alter the Earth’s climate, research suggests.
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#10. Now the politicians are the guilty parties. Shut them up and global warming would end.
mid island mike
I could not believe this story when I read it. Therefore the entry.
“Scientific lunacy” is beyond all reason.
What next?
Kill everything that “farts”?
Only “red necks” from Alberta can drill, recover, refine and ship quality “gas” … it’s all in the beef!!
The amount of spin in these things is always of interest, if anyone had bothered actually looking to the original source as opposed to simply taking the word of their biased media of choice they would have read
I know it bears little relation to the article linked, and even less relation to Fox News “Dinosaurs may have farted themselves to extinction” – but that is what the report said.