CANADA
#1 — CNews | Family holed up in church finally deported
TORONTO — Time has finally run out for a Russian family who sought refuge in an east-end church for a year to avoid deportation.
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#2 — Globe | Besieged B.C. Speaker rejects calls for his ouster over legislature’s accounting errors
The Speaker of the legislature is rejecting calls from the B.C. Conservatives for his resignation over an Auditor-General’s report that suggests the assembly’s finances suffer from “significant deficiences” in basic management – but Bill Barisoff may be leaving politics anyway.
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#3 — LFP | Rampage on the ranges
Emergency-response teams swooped into London’s provincial jail after a weapons search and lockdown sparked a melee, with inmates trashing the ranges, flooding toilets and damaging cells, sources say.
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Eager for cash to pay for a pricey new police station, the City of Winnipeg’s lawyers have set to work figuring out how they can sell a chunk of high-value downtown property without violating the terms of the Métis pioneers who gave it to them.
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#5 — OC | U.S. issues warrant for Canadian linked to illegal Internet pharmaceutical scheme
An American judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for a Canadian businessman over his role in an illegal Internet pharmacy operation.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Hundreds of millions without power in India
Hundreds of millions of people have been left without electricity in northern and eastern India after a massive power breakdown.
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NP | More than 670 million people without power as India suffers second major blackout
#7 — CNN | Drought strains U.S. oil production
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — One of the worst droughts in U.S. history is hampering oil production, pitting farmers against oilmen and highlighting just how dependent on water modern U.S. energy development has become.
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#8 — Fox | Taliban cheers reopening of NATO supply line
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – As the United States trumpeted its success in persuading Pakistan to end its seven-month blockade of supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, another group privately cheered its good fortune: the Taliban.
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Oil company BP has lost $1.4billion in the second quarter of this year due to falling prices and the growing cost of cleaning up after the 2010 Mexico oil spill.
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#10 — Telegraph | Abu Qatada loses latest bid for freedom
Radical preacher Abu Qatada loses his latest bid for freedom as his lawyers claimed his detention had already gone on for so long as to be “disproportionate and unlawful”.
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