Morning Update October 3rd, 2012 (10)

CANADA

#1 — CNews | Canada’s youngest multiple killer making good progress, court hears

CALGARY — The country’s youngest multiple killer earned rave reviews of reintegrating into society in a Medicine Hat, Alta., courtroom Monday.

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#2 — Globe | Harper nominates Quebec judge Wagner to Supreme Court

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated Quebec’s Mr. Justice Richard Wagner to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court of Canada.

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#3 — LFP | Deadly Taxi crash was holdup gone wrong

The passenger killed in a taxi crash last month was trying to rob the cabbie, Winnipeg police confirmed Monday.

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#4 — NP | Appeal court scolds judge for telling anti-abortion activist her ‘God is wrong,’ reduces sentence

An Ontario judge who told an anti-abortion activist “Your God is wrong” and jailed her for six months has been admonished by an appeal court colleague, who called the comments “ill-advised and inappropriate” and reduced the sentence.

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#5 — WS | Fire out Winnipeg fuel warehouse out; ‘shell of building’ left:chief

WINNIPEG – A massive fire at a fuel warehouse in Winnipeg is out.

Fire crews are still at the scene at Speedway International in St. Boniface.

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WS | Crews fight to control Winnipeg fuel fire (video)

WORLD

#6 — BBC | Nigerian gunmen kill Mubi students

At least 20 people, mostly students, have been killed by unknown gunmen in Mubi, north-eastern Nigeria, officials say.

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#7 — CNN | Farmer eaten by his own hogs

Authorities in Oregon are investigating how a hog farmer was eaten by his animals.

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#8 — Fox | 2 US border agents shot, 1 killed, near major drug corridor in Arizona

Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot, one fatally, Tuesday morning in an area in south Arizona known as a major drug-smuggling corridor, authorities said.

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#9 — DM | Canadian student was crushed to death by rubbish lorry after ending up in communal bin at end of first night in Britain

A Canadian student was crushed to death in the back of a bin lorry before being found at a waste facility, it has been revealed.

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#10 — Telegraph | China sends ships back to waters off disputed Japanese-controlled islands

Chinese government ships were back in waters around Japanese-controlled islands on Tuesday, the coastguard said, a week after they last left and days after heated exchanges at the UN General Assembly.

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