CANADA
#1 — CNews | Triple-murder suspect nabbed at border
Thirty-six hours after being named a suspect, the 21-year-old man said to have gunned down four of his G4S security co-workers at the University of Alberta was apprehended by U.S. border officials on Saturday.
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#2 — Globe | Saunders: My ancestors and the worst thing that has ever happened to this country
My grandmother’s grandmother was in her bedclothes one night when the Americans burst in.
“Twelve of them came down to us in the middle of the night demanding arms and they had each suspended to their sides swords and rifles,” she wrote of the fearful moment when she and her Welsh-born barrister husband became combatants.
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#3 — LFP | Family finds worm in box of Kraft Dinner
A Montreal-area family was shocked when a worm emerged from their box of Kraft Dinner.
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As a three-part series in the National Post demonstrated, the judicial system in Ontario is so clogged with backlogs and delays that it threatens to grind to a halt. But prosecutors are never so weighed down with work that they can’t find time to pursue another charge against 63-year-old grandmother Linda Gibbons for the crime of handing out pamphlets.
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OTTAWA — Sections of the Ottawa airport are now wired with microphones that can eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Nayef dies
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has died “outside the kingdom”, state media say.
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#7 — CNN | U.N. suspends peace mission in Syria due to uptick in violence
(CNN) – The United Nations said Saturday it has suspended its monitoring mission in Syria due to intensifying violence, sending a strong indication that prospects for peace are failing.
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#8 — Fox | China launches its first female astronaut into space
JIUQUAN, China – China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week.
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#9 — DM | A new age of mass destruction?
Cyberwarfare is developing eerie parallels with the race to build the first nuclear weapons warned the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists today.
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#10 — Telegraph | Alleged hacker Ryan Cleary to be tried in UK not US
Morning Update June 17th, 2012 (10),An Essex teenager suspected of masterminding an international computer hacking ring is not expected to be extradited to the United States despite facing charges in California.
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