CANADA
#1 — CNews | Widower wins $16M in Lotto 6-49
BRANTFORD, Ont. — Freedom 55 came to Terry Hostikka in an instant on Wednesday.
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#2 — Globe | Health Canada signs off on new drug to fight C. difficile
A new defence against Clostridium difficile, a deadly superbug that kills hundreds and sickens thousands every year, is coming to Canada.
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#3 — LFP | Failed Liberal leadership candidates in a pickle
Hall of Fame puck stopper Ken Dryden has joined three other failed 2006 Liberal leadership candidates who have run afoul of the Elections Canada Act and could face fines or jail.
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#4 — NP | No more temporary foreign workers for businesses linked to sex trade: immigration minister
CALGARY — The federal government is no longer allowing employers linked to the sex trade to hire strippers, escorts and massage parlour workers from outside the country.
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#5 — OC | Harper’s office says no cabinet shuffle this summer
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office has stated there will be no cabinet shuffle this summer, firmly squelching months of speculation that he was about to put a new face on his government.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Japan panel: Fukushima nuclear disaster ‘man-made’
The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster”, a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report.
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#7 — CNN | Has Air France Flight 447 mystery finally been solved?
(CNN) – More than three years after Air France Flight 447 plunged into the southern Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people aboard, authorities are preparing to release their final report on the fatal crash.
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CNN | Final Air France crash report says pilots failed to react swiftly
#8 — Fox | Romney: Insurance mandate is a tax, high court ‘has spoken’
Mitt Romney on Wednesday made another attempt at clarifying his view of the recent Supreme Court decision on President Obama’s health-care reform law, saying the punishment for failing to purchase insurance is a tax – not a penalty fine.
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#9 — DM | The most magnificent Rolls-Royce ever built
It manages just six miles to the gallon and has a top speed of only 60mph.
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#10 — Telegraph | Libyan armed militias ‘have stranglehold on country’
Hundreds of armed militias have taken a stranglehold on Libya as it heads for its first election of the post-Gaddafi era, a report warned on Wednesday.
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