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/ CANADA News: 20090329 China - Hackers - International - Computer - Spying - Network - Investigation -  - Cams - Political - Economic - Media - Military - Tech - Canada - United Kingdom - US "UPDATE: Deep computer-spying network touched 103 countries: Analysts find spyware installed on servers belonging to foreign ministries, embassies, and private companies." ... "A 10-month cyberespionage investigation has found that 1,295 computers in 103 countries and belonging to international institutions have been spied on, with some circumstantial evidence suggesting China may be to blame." ... "The 53-page report, released on Sunday, provides some of the most compelling evidence and detail of the efforts of politically motivated hackers while raising questions about their ties with government-sanctioned cyberspying operations." ... "[See also: Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog]" ... "It describes a network which researchers have called GhostNet, which primarily uses a malicious software program called gh0st RAT (Remote Access Tool) to steal sensitive documents, control Web cams and completely control infected computers." ... ""GhostNet represents a network of compromised computers resident in high-value political, economic and media locations spread across numerous countries worldwide," said the report, written by analysts with the Information Warfare Monitor, a research project of the SecDev Group, a think tank, and the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto [Canada]. "At the time of writing, these organizations are almost certainly oblivious to the compromised situation in which they find themselves."" ... ""Attributing all Chinese malware to deliberate or targeted intelligence gathering operations by the Chinese state is wrong and misleading," the report said." ... "However, China has made a concerted effort since the 1990s to use cyberspace for military advantage "The Chinese focus on cyber capabilities as part of its strategy of national asymmetric warfare involves deliberately developing capabilities that circumvent [United States] U.S. superiority in command-and-control warfare," it said." ... "A second report [PDF], written by University of Cambridge [United Kingdom] researchers and published in conjunction with the University of Toronto paper, was less circumspect, saying that the attacks against the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (OHHDL) were launched by "agents of the Chinese government." The Cambridge team titled their report, "The Snooping Dragon."" (1, 2) -By Jeremy Kirk with contributions by Robert McMillan -IDG.net via -InfoWorld 20090121 Barack Obama - Federal - Military - Prison - Terrorism - Law - Politics - US - Guantanamo - Cuba - Canada "Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo." ... "In one of its first actions, the [Democratic President] Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday [January 20, 2009] to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- a clear break with the approach of the outgoing [Republican President] Bush administration." ... "The instruction came in a motion filed with a military court in the case of five defendants accused of organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The motion called for "a continuance of the proceedings" until May 20 so that "the newly inaugurated president and his administration [can] review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently pending before military commissions, specifically."" ... "The same motion was filed in another case scheduled to resume Wednesday, involving a Canadian detainee, and will be filed in all other pending matters." ... "Such a request may not be automatically granted by military judges, and not all defense attorneys may agree to such a suspension. But the move is a first step toward closing a detention facility and system of military trials that became a worldwide symbol of the Bush administration's war on terrorism and its unyielding attitude toward foreign and domestic critics." ... "The Supreme Court ruled that, contrary to [Republican President Bush] administration claims, detainees at Guantanamo were entitled to challenge their detentions and that the naval base was not beyond the reach of federal law." ... "Eventually more than 550 detainees were released; only three were ever put on trial and convicted." -By Peter Finn -WashingtonPost 20081209 Plants - Animals - Food - Water - Soil - Global - Climate - Science - Government - US - Canada "Tree's rapid decline sounds alarm on global warming." ... "The whitebark pine, a tree found in the high elevations of the western U.S. [United States] and Canada, is being killed as a consequence of global warming and should be protected as an endangered species, an environmental group formally told the Interior Department Tuesday." ... "If the federal government accepts the scientific arguments in a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council, it would be the first time a wide-ranging tree has been added to the list. The NRDC [Natural Resources Defense Council] also sees an endangered designation as a warning about worsening climate change." ... "The whitebark pine has declined dramatically due to a triple threat — a disease called the white pine blister rust; the mountain pine beetle, which thrives in the warmer high-altitude conditions produced by the burning of fossil fuels, and forest management practices that have allowed other trees to crowd it out, the NRDC's petition said." ... "Warming also will limit the range of the whitebark pine, the petition said. Many live more than 500 years." ... "The whitebark pine stabilizes the soil and shades the snow, providing water over longer periods for other plants. Grizzly bears, smaller mammals and birds eat its seeds, and elk, grouse and other mountain animals find shelter beneath it." -By Renee Schoof -McClatchyDC.com Gov Reference: "Whitebark Pine Communities" 20081108 Sarah Palin - John McCain - Clothes - Money - Comedian - Canada - France -Mexico - US - 2008 Election - 2012 Election "Palin calls critics among McCain aides ‘jerks’." ... "The [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain campaign aides complained about the $150,000 that the Republican National Committee had spent on [2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah] Ms. Palin’s clothes, the way a Canadian comedian was able to embarrass the campaign by calling her and pretending to be the president of France, and the political ambitions she seemed to harbor beyond 2008." ... "By the end of the week, their complaints had escalated considerably, with Fox News quoting unnamed McCain campaign officials as saying that Ms. Palin had not known that Africa was a continent, not a country, and claiming that she did not know which countries were covered by the North American Free Trade Agreement [the US, Canada, and Mexico]." ... "Ms. Palin told reporters in Alaska that the anonymous criticism was “cowardly,” and that she had discussed the campaign’s position on Nafta at her debate prep sessions." ... "“I remember having a discussion with a couple of debate preppers,” she said. “So if it came from one of those debate preppers, you know, that’s curious. But having a discussion about Nafta — not, ‘Oh my goodness, I don’t know who is a part of Nafta.’ ”" ... "“So, no, I think that if there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about Nafta, and about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context,” Ms. Palin said. “And that’s cruel and it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional, and those guys are jerks, if they came away with it taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It is not fair and not right.”" -By William Yardley and Michael Cooper with contributions by Julie Bosman and Brian Stelter -NYTimes -MSNBC 20080923 Secret - Afghanistan -US - Military - 2008 Election - Terrorism - Politics - Dutch - Canadian "'Grim' Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US." ... "US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as "grim", but there are "no plans to declassify" any of it before the [2008] election, according to one US official familiar with the process." ... "According to people who have been briefed, the NIE will paint a "grim" picture of the situation in Afghanistan, seven years after the US invaded in an effort to dismantle the al Qaeda network and its Taliban protectors." ... "Seth Jones, an expert on Afghanistan at the Rand Corporation think tank, called the situation in Afghanistan "dire."" ... ""We are now at a tipping point, with about half of the country now penetrated by a range of Sunni militant groups including the Taliban and al Queida," Jones said. Jones said there is growing concern that Dutch and Canadian forces in Afghanistan would "call it quits."" ... ""The US military would then need six, eight, maybe ten brigades but we just don't have that many," Jones said." ... "Last week, Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress "we're running out of time" in Afghanistan. "I'm not convinced we're winning it in Afghanistan," Adm. Mullen testified." ... "Perhaps foreshadowing the NIE assessment on Afghanistan, Adm. Mullen told Congress, "absent a broader international and interagency approach to the problems there, it is my professional opinion that no amount of troops in no amount of time can ever achieve all the objectives we seek in Afghanistan."" (1, 2) -By Brian Ross -ABCNEWS.com 20080829 John McCain - Sarah Palin - Science - Politics - Oil - Money - Wildlife - History - Global - Climate - Ice - Law - Alaska - Arizona - 2008 Election - US - Canada "McCain VP Pick No Friend to Polar Bears." ... "Alaska [Republican] Governor Sarah Palin has ignored research showing that polar bear populations are declining in the quest to plumb new sources of energy, according to scientists, and environmental groups who fought to put the bears on the endangered species list." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain tapped Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential candidate Friday. Palin is only the second woman to be on a major party's ticket as VP -- the first was Geraldine Ferraro, who ran with Democrati Walter Mondale in 1984." ... "The 44-year-old Palin, a beauty pageant winner and former mayor of a small town in Alaska, is an advocate of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has infuriated environmentalists  for her support of the aerial shooting of wolves as a way to build up herds of moose and caribou. She's also sued the Interior Department for putting  polar bears on the endangered species list." ... "In the lawsuit, filed this month in federal district court in the District of Columbia, Palin argues that the government's move to list polar bears as endangered is not based on sound science, and restricts oil and natural gas development. The Interior Department had put the bears on the list in response to a lawsuit filed by environmental groups, who argued that the bears are being threatened by global warming." ... "In an interview on the conservative CNN talk show hosted by Glenn Beck earlier this year, Palin said that she was worried that environmentalists are using the Endangered Species Act to block the extraction of oil and gas." ... ""In fact, the number of polar bears has risen dramatically over the past 30 years," she said. "Our fear (is) that extreme environmentalists will use this tool, the ESA, to eventually curtail or halt the North Slope production of very rich resources that  America needs."" ... "But biologists who have studied polar bear populations counter that the facts simply do not support Palin's assertion that polar bear populations are on the rise." ... ""Polar bear populations have not been increasing for the past 30 years, and that's a well-known fact," said  Ian Stirling, an emeritus scientist with Canada's Department of the Environment and an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta in an interview. Stirling has studied polar bears for 37 years -- the longest of anyone." ... "In fact, the polar bear population has actually declined by 20 percent in Alaska's Southern Beaufort Sea since the mid-1980s, he says, referring to peer-reviewed research that he's conducted with other scientists for the US Geological Survey. The reason: Loss of their habitat in the form of melting ice." -By Sarah Lai Stirland -Wired 20080523 Oceans - Global - Climate - Science - Environmental - Atmospheric - Industrial - Factories - Cars - History - Animals - Seattle - Washington - California - Oregon - US - Canada - Mexico - "Acidified seawater showing up along coast ahead of schedule." ... "Climate models predicted it wouldn't happen until the end of the century." ... "So a team led by Seattle [Washington] researchers was stunned to discover that vast swaths of acidified seawater already are showing up along the Pacific Coast as greenhouse-gas emissions upset the oceans' chemical balance." ... "In surveys from Vancouver Island [British Columbia, Canada] to the tip of Baja California [Mexico], reported Thursday in the online journal Science Express, the scientists found the first evidence that large amounts of corrosive water are reaching the continental shelf — the shallow sea margin where most marine creatures live." ... "Off Northern California, the acidified water was only four miles from shore." ... ""What we found ... was truly astonishing," said oceanographer Richard Feely, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. "This means ocean acidification may be seriously impacting marine life on the continental shelf right now."" ... "All along the coast, the scientists found regions where the water was acidic enough to dissolve the shells and skeletons of clams, corals and many of the tiny creatures at the base of the marine food chain. Acidified water also can kill fish eggs and a wide range of marine larvae." ... ""Entire marine ecosystems are likely to be affected," said co-author Debby Ianson, an oceanographer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada." ... "Though it hasn't received as much attention as global warming, ocean acidification is a flip side of the same phenomenon. The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from power plants, factories and cars that is raising temperatures worldwide also is to blame for the increasing acidity of the world's oceans." ... "Normally, seawater is slightly alkaline. When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves into the water, it forms carbonic acid — the weak acid that helps give soda pop its tang. The process also robs the water of carbonate, a key ingredient in the formation of calcium carbonate shells." ... "Since the Industrial Revolution, when humans began pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Feely estimates the oceans have absorbed 525 billion tons of the man-made greenhouse gas — about one-third of the total released during that period." ... "By keeping some of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, the oceans have blunted the temperature rise due to global warming. But they've suffered for that service, with a more than 30-percent increase in acidity." ... "The acidified water upwelling along the coast today was last exposed to the atmosphere about 50 years ago, when carbon-dioxide levels were much lower than they are now. That means the water that will rise from the depths over the coming decades will have absorbed more carbon dioxide and will be even more acidic." -By Sandi Doughton -SeattleTimes 20080421 Corporate - Hackers - Manufacture - Electronics - Technology - California - Texas - US - Global - TV - Telecom - Media - Copyright - Enforcement - German - Canada - UK - Israeli - Intelligence - Spying - "Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotage." ... "Did a Rupert Murdoch company go too far and hire hackers to sabotage rivals and gain the top spot in the global pay-TV war?" ... "This is the question a jury will be facing in a spectacular five-year-old civil lawsuit that is finally being tried this month in California but which has, oddly, received little notice from U.S. [United States] media." ... "The case involves a colorful cast of characters that includes former intelligence agents, Canadian TV pirates, Bulgarian and German hackers, stolen e-mails and the mysterious suicide of a Berlin [Germany's capital] hacker who had been courted by the Murdoch company not long before his death." ... "On the hot spot is NDS Group, a UK-Israeli firm that makes smartcards for pay-TV systems like DirecTV. The company is a majority-owned subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation. The charges stem from 1997 when NDS is accused of cracking the encryption of rival NagraStar, which makes access cards and systems for EchoStar's Dish Network and other pay-TV services. Further, it’s alleged NDS then hired hackers to manufacture and distribute counterfeit NagraStar cards to pirates to steal Dish Network's programming for free." ... "NagraStar and one of its parent companies, EchoStar, are seeking about $101 million for damages for piracy, copyright infringement, misconduct and unfair competition. The list of witnesses in the case includes EchoStar's founder and CEO Charlie Ergen; several hackers and pirates; and Reuven Hazak, an Israeli who heads security for NDS and is a former deputy head of Shabak, or Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency (the equivalent of Britain's MI5)." ... "According to court documents, the scheme began to unravel in 2000 when law-enforcement agents in Texas seized suspicious packages containing CD and DVD players stuffed with more than $40,000 in cash. Parcels similar to this were being sent almost daily from Canada, via Texas, to a hacker in California named Christopher Tarnovsky, who was working for NDS as an engineer. The money was allegedly part of the conspiracy between Tarnovsky and NDS Group to sabotage NagraStar's cards." -By Kim Zetter -Wired 20080218 Afghanistan - People - Military - Politics - Iraq - US - Canada - "140 Afghans Killed in 2 Days of Bombings." ... "A suicide car bomber killed 38 Afghans at a crowded market Monday, pushing the death toll from two days of militant bombings to about 140." ... "The marketplace blast, which targeted a Canadian army convoy, came a day after the country's deadliest insurgent attack since a U.S. invasion defeated the Taliban regime in late 2001. The toll from that bombing in a crowd watching a dog fight rose to more than 100." ... "The back-to-back blasts in the southern province of Kandahar could be a sign insurgents are now willing to risk high civilian casualties while attacking security forces. Though their attacks occasionally have killed dozens, militants in Afghanistan have generally sought to avoid targeting civilians, unlike insurgents in Iraq's war." ... "The previous deadliest bombing in Afghanistan killed about 70 people _ mostly students _ in November [2007], part of a record year of violence in 2007 that included more than 140 suicide attacks." (1, 2) -By Allauddin Khan and Noor Khan with contributions by Matiullah Achakzai, Rahim Faiez and Paul Ames -AP -WashingtonPost 20080204 Child - Soldier - War Criminal - Canadian - Afghanistan - Cuba- Guantanamo - Prison - US - Criminal - Justice - Politics - "U.S. says no one too young for Guantanamo court." ... "A Canadian accused of killing a U.S. [United States] soldier in Afghanistan should not be tried as a war criminal because he was a child soldier for al Qaeda, too young to voluntarily join its forces, his military defense lawyer told a U.S. war court on Monday." ... "Navy [Lieutenant] Lt. William Kuebler asked a military judge to throw out the charges against Canadian defendant Omar Khadr, who was shot and captured at age 15 in a firefight at a suspected al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in 2002." ... ""He is a victim of al Qaeda, not a member of al Qaeda," Kuebler said." ... "But a U.S. Department of Justice attorney [under Republican President Bush], arguing for the prosecution, said that if Congress intended to exclude juveniles from the Guantanamo war court [in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba], it would have explicitly written that, because lawmakers knew Khadr could face charges. Instead, Congress wrote the law using the term "person," which legally refers to "anyone born alive," Justice Department attorney Andy Oldham said." (1, 2) -By Jane Sutton with contributions by Tom Brown and Alan Elsner -Reuters  20080125 John McCain - Rick Davis - Russian - Crime - Money - Politics - Switzerland - Ukraine - Canada - Britain - Lawsuits - Ga - NH - Virginia - Arizona - 2008 Election - US - International - "Aide Helped Controversial Russian Meet McCain: Davis, Then a Lobbyist, Has Spurred Debate in Reform-Focused Campaign." ... "A top political adviser in [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator]  Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign helped arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S. [United States] government revoked his visa." ... "Rick Davis, who is now McCain's campaign manager, helped set up the encounter between McCain and Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska in [World Economic Summit at Davos] Switzerland during an international economic conference. At the time, Davis was working for a lobbying firm and seeking to do business with the billionaire." ... "With a net worth of more than $13 billion, Deripaska is one of the richest men in Russia and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin." ... "When Deripaska met McCain, Davis was part of Davis Manafort, a lobbying firm that was being paid to provide political advice to pro-Russian and oligarch-funded candidates in Ukraine, according to interviews and news accounts." ... "Davis, who has been a political adviser to McCain on and off since 1999, was part of a lobbying firm that worked not only for Ukrainian politicians but also for telecommunications firms, a lottery services provider and freight companies." ... "Davis's firm provided political advice to a pro-Russian party in Ukraine during the parliamentary elections of 2006." ... "He [Oleg Deripaska] has been accused of shady business practices in lawsuits in the United States and Britain, and his multiple-entry U.S. visa was yanked by the State Department in the summer of 2006." ... "The first gathering that brought McCain and Deripaska together occurred in January 2006, when McCain was part of a congressional delegation trip. He and a small group of senators, including [Georgia Republican Senator] Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.[Republican-Georgia]) and [New Hampshire Republican Senator] John E. Sununu (R-N.H.[Republican-New Hampshire]), met for a drink near Davos, Switzerland, at an apartment where they were greeted by Davis and Deripaska. The group then went to a dinner at the ski chalet of Peter Munk, founder of Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold-mining company, based in Toronto [Canada]. Participants at the buffet dinner said Munk complimented his sometime business partner Deripaska during his brief remarks to the 40 or so guests." ... "Later that month, Deripaska wrote to Davis and his partner, GOP political consultant Paul J. Manafort, to thank them for arranging the meeting. "Thank you so much for setting up everything in Klosters so spectacularly," he wrote. "It was very interesting to meet Senators McCain, Chambliss and Sununu in such an intimate setting."" ... "The letter was sent to Davis at the Reform Institute, a Virginia-based nonprofit group that McCain helped start to promote many of his trademark reform efforts, including increasing the transparency of lobbying and campaign financing." ... "Davis was the institute's president from January 2003 until December 2005. During that time, he was also a registered lobbyist at Davis Manafort. The institute was located at the Davis Manafort offices until January 2006." ... "Seven months later, in August 2006, Davis was present again at a social gathering that was also attended by McCain and Deripaska, this time in Montenegro, another Eastern European country in which Davis's firm was working." (1, 2, 3) -By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon with contributions by Peter Baker -WashingtonPost 20080121 Worldwide - US - Britain - France - Germany - Canada - Brazil - Argentina - "Stock Markets Plunge Worldwide." ... "Stocks fell sharply worldwide Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. [United States] government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession." ... "U.S. markets were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but the downbeat mood from last week's market declines there circled through Europe, Asia and the Americas. Britain's benchmark FTSE-100 slumped 5.5 percent to 5,578.20, France's CAC-40 Index tumbled 6.8 percent to 4,744.15, and Germany's blue-chip DAX 30 plunged 7.2 percent to 6,790.19." ... "In Canada, the S&P/TSX composite index on the Toronto Stock Exchange fell 4.8 percent. Brazilian stocks plunged 6.6 percent on the main index of Sao Paulo's Bovespa exchange, and Argentina's benchmark Merval index fell 6.3 percent to close under 1,900 for the first time since August 2006." -By Toby Anderson with contributions by Cassie Biggs, Ramola Talwar Badam, Elaine Kurtenbach, and Carl Freire -AP via -Yahoo

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20071218
• Wave - Technology - Company - Canada - San Francisco - California - Oregon - US - Global - Climate - "PG&E agrees to buy power from Canadian firm's proposed 'wave park'." ... "The dream of generating electricity from the ocean's waves will take a major step forward today when Pacific Gas and Electric Co. announces its support for plans to build the nation's first commercial wave power plant off the coast of Northern California, the latest step in the state's efforts to combat global warming." ... "The plant will consist of eight buoys bobbing in the water 2 1/2 miles offshore, each buoy generating electricity as it rises and falls with the waves. If all goes as planned, the "wave park" will begin operating in 2012." ... "The power it generates won't be much - enough to light 1,500 homes at most. But it represents another potential front in the fight against climate change. California has ordered utilities such as PG&E to buy more power from renewable sources that don't spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and heat the planet. The utilities are turning to the sun, the wind and now the ocean as a result." ... "San Francisco's [California] PG&E won't build or own the proposed wave park, near Eureka [California], which will be designed and built by Canadian company Finavera. Instead, PG&E has agreed to buy the plant's power." ... "That promise will help Finavera get financing for the project by showing potential investors that it already has a customer. It's an unusual step for a technology that, until now, has existed more in the lab than in the water." ... "There's no guarantee that the project will work. Finavera's prototype buoy sank off the Oregon coast earlier this year, for reasons the company hasn't completely nailed down." -By David R. Baker -SFGate.com 

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20071208
• John Edwards - United States - Canada - Mexico - Working - Families - Multinational - Corporate - Media - Government - 2008 Election - New Hampshire - "Edwards Condemns NAFTA." ... "[2008 Election] Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said Saturday he wants to replace the empty promise that NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] would create millions of jobs with his own promise to be a tough negotiator on trade deals." ... "On the 14th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Edwards condemned the deal that lowered trade barriers between the United States and Canada and Mexico, arguing that it has paved the way for a series of deals that put the interests of multinational corporations ahead of working families." ... ""NAFTA was sold to the American people with promises that it would grow the economy and create millions of new jobs. But today, we know those promises were empty," he said. "In all three countries, it has hurt workers and families while helping corporate insiders."" ... "He also told voters in Derry [New Hamshire] that those corporate powers are in danger not only of controlling what comes out of government but the election process itself. Responding to a woman who said she resented media conglomerates trying to dictate the outcome of the presidential campaign, Edwards said the concentration of media ownership has become unhealthy for democracy." ... ""This all goes back to the same problem. Are the big corporate interests in Washington going to decide what's going to happen with your democracy and what's going to happen with your government? You can't let them decide what's going to happen with your elections," he said. "Then, they're not only controlling your democracy, they're controlling your elections."" -AP via -CBSNews 

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20071107
• Children - Safety - Science - US - Australia - Canada - China - Manufacture - Industry - Christmas - "'Date rape' drug scare in popular toy: Chinese-made craft beads pulled from shelves in U.S. and Australia." ... "A toy that has been hyped on top-10 lists for the Christmas season has been pulled from the shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found it contains a chemical that converts into a powerful "date rape" drug when ingested." ... "Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the Chinese-made craft beads, called Aqua Dots in the U.S. and Bindeez in Australia." ... "Aqua Dots, distributed by Toronto[Canada]-based Spin Master Toys, appeared on many toy experts' list of must-have holiday toys." ... "Scientists say a chemical coating on the beads, when ingested, metabolizes into the so-called date rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate. The compound -- made from common and easily available ingredients -- can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death." ... "The toys' manufacturer, Australia-based Moose Enterprises, said Bindeez and Aqua Dots are made at the same factory in Shenzhen in China's southern Guangdong province." -AP via -SeattlePI

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20070820
• US - Canada - United Kingdom - Government - Reference - Business - Media - Online - Library - Computer - Technology - "A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free." ... "The domination of two legal research services over the publication of [US] federal and state court decisions is being challenged by an Internet gadfly who has embarked on an ambitious project to make more than 10 million pages of case law available free online." ... "The project is the latest effort of Carl Malamud, an activist who founded public.resource.org in March, with the broad intent of building “public works” accessible via the network, and with the specific plan to force the federal government to make information more publicly accessible." ... "Last week, Mr. Malamud began using advanced computer scanning technology to copy decisions, which have been available only in law libraries or via subscription from the Thomson West unit of the Canadian publishing conglomerate Thomson, and LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, based in London [United Kingdom]." ... "The two companies control the bulk of the nearly $5 billion legal publishing market. (A third, but niche, player is the Commerce Clearing House division of Wolters Kluwer)." ... "The Public Resource effort is one of several attempts to make the nation’s laws more accessible. One project, AltLaw (altlaw.org) is a joint effort by Columbia Law School’s Program on Law and Technology and the Silicon Flatirons program at the University of Colorado Law School to permit free full-text searches of the last decade of federal appellate and Supreme Court opinions." -By John Markoff -NYTimes 

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20070814
• China - Global - Business - Canada - US - Calif - Children - Safety- Consumer - "More than 18 million Mattel toys on recall globally." ... "Mattel Inc. announced more problems with its Chinese-made products Tuesday, recalling nearly 18.7 million toys around the globe because of dangers associated with small magnets or lead paint." ... "The announcement, which covers about 18.2 magnetic toys and another 436,000 made with lead paint, comes less than two weeks after the toymaker recalled nearly one million Chinese-made toys sold in the U.S. because of excessive amounts of lead in the paint." ... "Nearly one million toys have been recalled in Canada, Mattel said in statement released Tuesday. They include about 890,000 magnetic toys such as Polly Pocket dolls and Batman action figures, and 32,800 Sarge die-cast cars that contain lead paint." ... "In an interview with CBC from the company's headquarters in El Segundo, Calif. [California], Mattel's executive vice-president Bryan Stockton did not rule out the possibility of more recalls." ... "In the United States, nearly nine million toys were included in Tuesday's recall, officials from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said at a news conference in Washington [DC]." ... "If more than one magnet is swallowed, they can attach to each other and cause intestinal perforation, infection or blockage, which can be fatal." ... "While Stockton said Mattel is now testing every single batch of toys made, in China and elsewhere, the company will continue manufacturing goods in the Asian country. " -CBC.ca

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20070812
• US - International - Seniors - Babies - Science - History - Canada - EU - Washington - "U.S. now trails 41 other nations in life expectancy." ... "Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries." ... "For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles." ... ""Something's wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries," said Dr. Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington." ... "A baby born in the United States in 2004 will live an average of 77.9 years." ... "That life expectancy ranks 42nd, down from 11th two decades earlier, according to international numbers provided by the Census Bureau and domestic numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics." ... "Researchers said several factors have contributed to the United States falling behind other industrialized nations." ... "A major one is that 45 million Americans lack health insurance, while Canada and many European countries have universal health care, they say." ... "Adults in the United States have one of the highest obesity rates in the world." ... "A relatively high percentage of babies born in the U.S. die before their first birthday, compared with other industrialized nations." -AP via -AZStarNet.com 

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20070810
• Secret - Canadian - Syrian - Kuwaiti - United States - Terrorism - Prison - Torture- Politics - Immigration - New York - "Deported Canadian Was No Threat, Report Shows." ... "Canadian intelligence officials anticipated that the United States would ship Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian who was detained in New York in 2002 on suspicion of terrorism, to a third country to be tortured, declassified information released on Thursday shows." ... "Mr. Arar was sent by American intelligence officials in October 2002 to Syria, where he was tortured and jailed for a almost a year. Last September, an extensive Canadian inquiry concluded that the terrorism accusations against him were groundless." ... "Portions of the inquiry's report were originally removed for security and diplomatic reasons. But a court ruled last month that much of the editing was not justified." ... "The newly released sections indicate that neither the Syrian government nor the Federal Bureau of Investigation were convinced that Mr. Arar was a significant security threat. They also suggest that the investigation of Mr. Arar was prompted by the coerced confession of Ahmad Abou el-Maati, a Kuwaiti-born Canadian who was also imprisoned and tortured in Syria. And despite claims by the United States government that Mr. Arar s removal to Syria was mainly an immigration matter, the new material suggests that the Central Intelligence Agency led the action." -By Ian Austen -NYTimes 

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20070803
• US - Canada - Michigan - Minnesota - Wisconsin - Lake - History - Climate - Business - "Lake Superior changes puzzle scientists." ... "Deep enough to hold the combined water in all the other Great Lakes and with a surface area as large as South Carolina, Lake Superior's size has lent it an aura of invulnerability." ... "But the mighty Superior [bordered by Ontario, Canada and the US states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin] is losing water and getting warmer, worrying those who live near its shores, scientists and companies that rely on the lake for business." ... "The changes to the lake could be signs of climate change, although scientists aren't sure." ... "Superior's level is at its lowest point in eight decades and will set a record this fall if, as expected, it dips three more inches. Meanwhile, the average water temperature has surged 4.5 degrees since 1979, significantly above the 2.7-degree rise in the region's air temperature during the same period." ... "That's no small deal for a freshwater sea that was created from glacial melt as the Ice Age ended and remains chilly in all seasons." ... "A weather buoy on the western side recently recorded an "amazing" 75 degrees, "as warm a surface temperature as we've ever seen in this lake," said Jay Austin, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota at Duluth's Large Lakes Observatory." -AP via -CNN

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• Canada - Russia - Denmark - Real Estate - Ocean - Oil - UN - Law - "Ottawa assails Moscow's Arctic ambition: 'You can't go around the world these days dropping a flag somewhere,' MacKay says. 'This isn't the 14th or 15th century'." ... "[Canada's] Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed to defend his country's sovereignty over its northernmost territories yesterday after Moscow [Russia's capital] sent two submarines deep under the North Pole ice to plant a flag on the ocean floor." ... "The two deep-diving Mir mini-submarines were sent on their sub-Arctic expedition to bolster Russian claims to much of the area's oil and mineral wealth." ... "They dropped a titanium capsule containing the nation's flag on the bottom, symbolically claiming almost half of the planet's northern polar region for Moscow." ... "The Russians, meanwhile, are not the only ones eyeing the Arctic seabed." ... "The Danish government, which also has extensive Arctic claims because of its sovereignty over Greenland, scoffed at Russia's planting of the titanium flag capsule on the seabed." ... "Like Canada, Denmark is preparing its claim to the region around the pole under the UN Law of the Sea Convention." -By Gloria Galloway and Alan Freeman -GlobeAndMail 

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20070720
• Global - Food - Safety - US - Canada - China - Colorado - Animal - Agriculture - Industry - Consumer - Government - Law - Enforcement - Money - Politics - "Some hunger for food labels: After recalls, shoppers want to know the origins of globalized groceries." ... "Take a look at the meal you put on the table tonight, and you'll likely be looking at an international effort. The steak may have come from a cow raised in Colorado, while the carrots were grown in Canada and the apple juice imported from China." ... "Many consumers consider the globalization of the food chain a good thing; you can get any food you want any time of the year. But several recent recalls of tainted food have some shoppers questioning exactly where their food comes from and how safe it is." ... "Figuring out where the food on grocery store shelves comes from isn't always easy." ... "Country-of-origin labels -- telling shoppers the country in which a product was grown, caught or raised -- would do that but right now they're required only on seafood. Labels for meat, produce and peanuts won't start until September 2008." ... "America's food safety problem is complicated but starts with this: We are importing more food and the government agencies charged with keeping food safe don't have enough funding or resources, said Chris Waldrop, director of the food policy institute for the Consumer Federation of America." ... "Country-of-origin labeling for meat and produce was supposed to take effect three years ago. But lobbyists, primarily for the beef industry, enlisted the help of congressional Republicans to delay the change. Trade associations are still fighting it." (1, 2) -By Sue Stock -NewsObserver.com 

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20070718
• Afghanistan - Canada - Politics - "NATO forces in Afghanistan insufficient: Canada." ... "NATO does not have enough troops in Afghanistan to accomplish the "daunting challenge" of stabilizing the impoverished nation, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Wednesday." ... "Harper also repeated a complaint that Canada's 2,500-strong military mission was doing a disproportionate amount of the fighting against Taliban militants. Canada has lost 66 soldiers so far in Afghanistan." -Reuters 

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20070629
• US - Massachusetts - Canada - Car - Travel - Pet - Animal - Mitt Romney - 2008 Election - "Romney Accused of Mistreating Family Dog." ... "[2008 election Presidential candidate Mitt] Romney placed his family dog, an Irish setter named Seamus, into a kennel lashed to the top of his station wagon for a 12-hour family trip from Boston [Massachusetts] to Ontario [Canada] in 1983. Despite being shielded by a wind screen the former Massachusetts governor erected, Seamus expressed his discomfort with a diarrhea attack." -By Glen Johnson -AP via -SFGate.com

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20070614
• US - Canada - Technology - Worker - Mexican - Immigrants - California - "State GOP fills a critical post with Canadian." ... "The California Republican Party has decided no American is qualified to take one of its most crucial positions -- state deputy political director -- and has hired a Canadian for the job through a coveted H-1B visa, a program favored by Silicon Valley tech firms that is under fire for displacing skilled American workers." ... "Christopher Matthews, 35, a Canadian citizen, has worked for the state GOP as a campaign consultant since 2004. But he recently was hired as full-time deputy political director, with responsibility for handling campaign operations and information technology for the country's largest state Republican Party operation, California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring confirmed in a telephone interview this week." ... "The hiring of two immigrants at top Republican Party posts has handed ammunition to critics who note that many Republicans have spoken critically about the impacts of waves of Mexican immigrants." ... ""The hypocrisy is disgusting," said longtime Democratic Party activist Gloria Nieto, policy director at San Jose-based Services Immigration Rights and Education Network, or SIREN, an immigrant advocacy nonprofit organization." ... "Nieto argued that the party has painted Latinos "as the brown menace. ... But it's perfectly OK to hire people from outside the country? What does it say about the Republican Party that they import their hired guns?"" -By Carla Marinucci -SFGate.com 

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20070529
• British - US - Canada - Iraq - Finance - Police - Vehicles - Terrorism - Religion - "Five Britons abducted in Baghdad: Five Britons have been kidnapped from Iraq's finance ministry in Baghdad, the British government has confirmed." ... "They included four bodyguards and a finance expert." ... "Witnesses and sources told the BBC that the kidnappers wore police uniforms and arrived in up to 40 police vehicles." ... "Also on Tuesday, Baghdad was shaken by a bus explosion which killed at least 23 people and injured about 55, and a car bomb which killed at least 17 people, hurt at least 36 and destroyed a Shia mosque." ... "The US military also announced that 10 of its soldiers were killed in Iraq on Monday, including two in a helicopter crash." ... "At least 112 US troops have been killed so far in May, making it the deadliest month this year." ... "The missing security guards are all believed to have been working for the GardaWorld security agency - a Canadian-owned firm largely staffed by British former service personnel." ... "GardaWorld is one of the biggest suppliers of private security in Iraq, and is thought to have hundreds of staff in the country." -BBC/News 

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20061015
• Afghanistan - Canada - Italian - Photographer - "Surge Of Violent Clashes In Afghanistan: NATO Soldiers Killed In Ambush; Photographer And Assistant Kidnapped." ... "Two NATO soldiers were killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan after militants ambushed them with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire, the alliance said." ... "An Italian freelance photographer and his assistant, meanwhile, were abducted by armed men in southern Helmand province, an Afghan official said." ... "Canada's defense department identified the dead NATO sold[i]ers as Canadian but did not release their names." ... "Counting the latest fatalities, 42 Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002." (1, 2) -AP via -CBSNews 

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20060918
• Canada - US - Syria - Secret - Torture - Intelligence - Religious - Terrorism - Politics - "Canadian was falsely accused, panel says: Muslim held by U.S. was sent to Syria for interrogation." ... "Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday." ... "The report, released in Ottawa, was the result of a 2 1/2-year inquiry that represented one of the first public investigations into mistakes made as part of the United States' "extraordinary rendition" program, which has secretly spirited suspects to foreign countries for interrogation by often brutal methods." ... "The inquiry, which focused on the Canadian intelligence services, found that agents who were under pressure to find terrorists after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, falsely labeled an Ottawa computer consultant, Maher Arar, as a dangerous radical. They asked U.S. authorities to put him and his wife, a university economist, on the al-Qaeda "watchlist," without justification, the report said." ... "Arar was also listed as "an Islamic extremist individual" who was in the Washington area on Sept. 11. The report concluded that he had no involvement in Islamic extremism and was on business in San Diego that day, said the head of the inquiry commission, Ontario Justice Dennis O'Connor." (1, 2)  -WashingtonPost via -MSNBC

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20060726
• Israel - Lebanon - UN - Austria - Canada - China - "Annan: Israel bombed UN base for hours." ... "The UN general secretary, Kofi Annan, today accused the Israeli military of carrying out a sustained bombing of the UN base on the Lebanon-Israel border that culminated in the killing of four unarmed monitors." ... ""I spoke to Mr Olmert [Israel's prime minister] and he definitely believes it was a mistake and has expressed his deep sorrow," Mr Annan told a press conference in Rome." ... ""But the shelling started in the morning and went on until after 7pm. You cannot imagine the anguish of the unarmed men and women peacekeepers who were there."" ... "According to a detailed timeline of the incident provided by an unidentified UN officer and reported by CNN, the first bomb exploded around 200 metres from the post at 1.20pm (11.20am BST) yesterday." ... "Unifil observers then telephoned their designated contact with the Israeli military, who assured them the attacks would stop. In the following hours, nine more bombs fell close to the post, each one followed by a call to the Israeli military, the UN officer said." ... "The main Unifil base in the town of Naqoura lost contact with the post at 7.40pm, seemingly the time when the post received a direct hit." ... "The four monitors came from Austria, Canada, China and Finland." -Guardian.co.uk 

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20060627
• Women's - Health - Gay - Family - Psychology - Canada - "Study Links Male Gays, Birth of Older Brothers: A mother's antibodies may change with each boy, raising chances the next will be homosexual." ... "Having one or more older brothers boosts the likelihood of a boy growing up to be gay — an effect due not to social factors, but biological events that occur in their mother's womb, according to a study published today." ... "In an analysis of 905 men and their siblings, Canadian psychologist Anthony Bogaert found no evidence that social interactions among family members played a role in determining whether a man was gay or straight." ... "The only significant factor was the number of times a mother had previously given birth to boys, according to the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." -By Karen Kaplan -LAtimes 

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20060524
• Iran - Canada - Israel - Religious - Clothing - Law - Politics - "Newspaper apologizes for anti-Iran report." ... "A Canadian newspaper apologized Wednesday for an article that said Iran planned to force Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive clothing to distinguish themselves from Muslims." ... "But the National Post, a longtime supporter of Israel and critic of Tehran, admitted Wednesday it had not checked the piece thoroughly enough before running it." ... ""It is now clear the story is not true," Douglas Kelly, the National Post's editor in chief, wrote in a long editorial on Page 2. "We apologize for the mistake and for the consternation it has caused not just National Post readers, but the broader public who read the story."" ... "The article was based on a column by Iranian expatriate writer Amir Taheri, who said a law being debated by Iran's parliament would force Jews to sew a yellow strip of cloth to their clothes." -Reuters via -CNN 

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20060513
• Canada - Woman - Mother's-Day - Financial - Education - Accounting -Family - Politics - "Want to move up? Marry down." ... "Unlike many others, Christine Ellison has risen to the top of her field while still being able to celebrate Mother's Day. But her success had more to do with equality at home than equality at work: She put in the long hours required to earn and maintain a coveted partnership in a national accounting firm while her husband stayed home with their child." ... "Unintentionally, Ms. Ellison was acting out a template that some feminist thinkers argue is the only way to restart the stalled progress of women in society in general: Elite women must change not just workplaces, but also their intimate lives, in order to break the "domestic glass ceiling" -- the family duties that explain why women are vastly underrepresented in the most powerful positions." ... "How? Don't study liberal arts in college, they say. Hesitate to have more than one child. And marry "beneath" you, taking a spouse with lower earning potential so that yours never will be the career it "makes sense" to compromise." ... "Ms. Ellison was already up for the partnership when she first became pregnant. So she worked from home for four months, and then her husband, an electrical engineer named Jim Fulsang, took six months' parental leave from his job. In the end, the pair decided that Mr. Fulsang would quit to be with baby Michael in their Woodbridge, Ont. [Canada], home." ... ""I've invested so much in my education and career," she says. "Anybody who knows us well knows that our decision is financially logical. And he's more suited to be at home."" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) -Tralee Pearce -GlobeAndMail 

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20051214
• Iran - US - Alaska - Canada - Germany - History - "Iranian leader: Holocaust a 'myth'." ... "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the Holocaust as "a myth" and suggested that Israel be moved to Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska." ... "Ahmadinejad sparked widespread international condemnation in October when he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."" ... "Last week, he also expressed doubt about the killing by the Nazis of six million Jews during World War II, but Wednesday was the first occasion when he said in public that the Holocaust was a myth." ... "In Berlin, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his government had summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires to make "unmistakably clear" its displeasure, The Associated Press said." -CNN 

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• Canada - US - World - Drugs - Internet - Privacy - "Meth addicts' other habit: Online theft." ... "Hot on the trail of identity thieves, veteran [Alberta, Canada] Edmonton Police Service detectives Al Vonkeman and Bob Gauthier last winter hustled to a local motel, a cinder-block establishment where rooms rent by the hour." ... "Inside Room 24 the detectives found meth pipes, stolen credit cards, notebooks with handwritten notations about fraudulent transactions and printouts of stolen identity data." ... "Evidence in the motel room would ultimately lead them to a much bigger revelation: The Edmonton ring had gone global." ... "It no longer relied solely on dumpster-diving, mailbox-pilfering street addicts to supply stolen credit cards, checks and account statements, the grist for local thefts. Instead, it had advanced to complex joint ventures, conducted over the Internet, in partnership with organized cybercrime rings outside the country." ... "What's happening in Edmonton is happening to one degree or another in communities across the USA and Canada — anywhere meth addicts are engaging in identity theft and can get on the Internet, say police, federal law enforcement officials and Internet security experts." -By Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz -USATODAY

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20051207
• Global - Environment - US - Canada - EU - UN - Technology - "UPDATE 2-U.S. comes under pressure at climate talks." ... "The European Union and host Canada piled pressure on the United States on Wednesday to join an international pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit the predicted chaos from global warming." ... "But the United States defended its policy of investing billions of dollars in cleaner technology to reduce emissions, brushing aside calls for it to commit to long-term U.N. discussions on slowing climate change,." ... ""One size does not fit all," said Paula Dobriansky, the U.S. under secretary for global affairs, who leads the American delegation to the Nov.28-Dec.9 U.N. climate talks in Montreal [Canada]." -By David Fogarty and Timothy Gardner -Reuters 

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20051129
• Canada- History - "Defeated Canadian PM sets election date." ... "Prime Minister Paul Martin launched an election campaign on Tuesday with a slim lead in the polls after his minority government was toppled in Parliament on Monday night over a corruption scandal." ... "Martin informed Governor-General Michaelle Jean, representative of head of state Queen Elizabeth, that his Liberal government had lost the confidence of Parliament and emerged from her official residence to announce the election would be on January 23." ... "The Liberals, who have governed a majority of the time since Canada was founded in 1867, will be seeking their fifth straight term since the Conservatives went down to defeat in 1993." (1, 2) -By Randall Palmer and David Ljunggren -Reuters 

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20051122
• US - Canada - Animals - Health - "U.S. Bans Imports of Some Canadian Poultry." ... "Federal agriculture officials banned poultry imports from mainland British Columbia on Monday after Canadian officials reported finding a duck at a poultry farm that was infected with the flu." ... "Canadian authorities have said that the virus that afflicted the duck was a mild North American strain and not the virulent strain that has killed wild and commercial bird flocks all over Asia, as well as more than 60 people." -By Gardiner Harris -NYTimes 

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20051121
• US - Canada - Tennessee - Georgia - Michigan - Oklahoma - Ohio - Auto - Business - "GM to Close 12 North American Sites, Cut 30,000 Jobs (Update8)." ... "General Motors Corp., weighed down by its biggest losses in more than a decade, will close 12 North American operations and purge 30,000 jobs in its deepest round of cuts since 1991." ... "Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said today he will idle five auto plants, four parts factories and three non-manufacturing complexes. Among them is a Saturn plant opened 15 years ago as an answer to the small-car threat from Asia." ... "In addition to one of the Saturn plants in Spring Hill, Tennessee, GM will close assembly plants in Doraville, Georgia; Lansing, Michigan; Oklahoma City [Oklahoma]; and Oshawa, Ontario [Canada]. The automaker will shut down engine plants in St. Catharines, Ontario [Canada], and Flint, Michigan. GM will also reduce shifts at assembly plants in Moraine, Ohio, and a second car plant in Oshawa." -Jeff Green and John Lippert -Bloomberg 

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20051110
• US - Canada - Alaska - Oil- Animals - Politics - "U.S. House drops plans to drill in Arctic refuge." ... "In a move certain to please Canadian politicians as well as environmentalists on both sides of the border, U.S. House leaders abandoned plans late yesterday to push for oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge." ... "They dropped from a budget bill a provision that would open the refuge to drilling as a salve to moderate Republicans because they feared it would jeopardize approval of a sweeping legislation today." ... "Canadian politicians and activists have lobbied against the plan because it would affect a migrating caribou herd." ... "Prime Minister Paul Martin said last month that the environmental damage from opening a coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development would far outweigh any modest addition to U.S. crude supplies." -By Oliver Moore -GlobeAndMail 

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20051105
• Argentina - US - Mexico - Canada - Chile - Business - Politics- "Summit Protests Turn Violent in Argentina." ... "More than 1,000 demonstrators angry about President Bush's policies clashed with police, shattered storefronts and torched businesses Friday, marring the inauguration of the Summit of the Americas as leaders began debating creation of one of the world's largest free trade zones." ... "The chaos reflected the often violent, worldwide debate on free trade as the United States and Mexico pushed to relaunch talks on a zone stretching from Canada to Chile. Past summits on the issue _ including last year's gathering of Asian-Pacific leaders in Chile _ have drawn bitter opposition and similarly angry protests." -Contributed to by Alan Clendenning, Dan Molinski, Nestor Ikeda, and Vivian Sequera -AP via -CBSNews

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20051103
• US - Australia - Canada - New Zealand - Britain - Germany - Consumer- Money - "U.S. Health Care Costs Big Money: Survey Says Americans Pay More, Get Disorganized Care." ... "Americans pay more when they get sick than people in other Western nations and receive more confused, error-prone treatment, according to the largest survey to compare U.S. health care with other nations." ... "The survey of nearly 7,000 sick adults in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain and Germany found Americans were the most likely to pay at least $1,000 in out-of-pocket expenses. More than half went without needed care because of cost, the survey found, and more than a third endured mistakes and disorganized care when they did get treated." ... "While patients in every nation sometimes run into obstacles to getting care and face deficiencies in treatment, the United States stood out for having the highest error rates, most disorganized care and highest costs, the survey found." -By Rob Stein-WashingtonPost 

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20051026
• Canada - Iran - Israel - Nuclear - "Canada blasts Iran for seeking Israeli destruction." ... "Canada strongly condemned Iran's president on Wednesday for urging that Israel be "wiped off the map," saying the comments were particularly worrying because of Tehran's nuclear ambitions." -Reuters

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20050929
• US - Sweden - Canada - Japan - Germany - Auto - "Ford to Cut Half of Suppliers to Improve Technology (Update4)." ... "Ford Motor Co. will cut half of its suppliers and sign long-term contracts with the rest to reduce costs and improve technology as the world's third-largest carmaker struggles to reverse declining profit and shrinking sales." ... "Ford will announce agreements today with Sweden's Autoliv Inc., Delphi Corp., Johnson Controls Inc., Lear Corp., Canada's Magna International Inc., Visteon Corp. and Japan's Yazaki Corp., said Gabriele Gutscher, a spokeswoman for Ford in Cologne, Germany." -By Alan Katz -Bloomberg 

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20050928
• US - Canada - Auto - Business - "GM, Canadian Union Avoid Strike With Labor Accord (Update1)." ... "General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker, averted a strike by reaching a three-year contract agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers union." ... "The union, which has 17,100 members at GM, announced the accord last night in Toronto. Union President Buzz Hargrove said more than 1,000 jobs will be cut, with many done through attrition, he said. The union agreed to similar job cuts in deals with Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler unit." ... "The agreement wraps up talks in which the three U.S.-based automakers pressed for job cuts and efficiency improvements. The union was able to secure investment in some Canadian plants while accepting reduced employment." -By Bill Koenig -Bloomberg 

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20050907
• -  -  -  -  - Hurricane Katrina - Disaster - "Offers of Aid Immediate, but U.S. Acceptance Delayed for Days." ... "Offers of foreign aid worth tens of millions of dollars -- including a Swedish water purification system, a German cellular telephone network and two Canadian rescue ships -- have been delayed for days awaiting review by backlogged federal agencies, according to European diplomats and information collected by the State Department." ... "Since Hurricane Katrina, more than 90 countries and international organizations offered to assist in recovery efforts for the flood-stricken region, but nearly all endeavors remained mired yesterday in bureaucratic entanglements, in most cases, at the Federal Emergency Management Agency." -By Elizabeth Williamson-WashingtonPost

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20050819
• Lesotho -  -  -  - "Brain drain hurts Lesotho AIDS fight - UN official." ... "The brain drain drawing Africa's nurses to the West has hobbled the fight against HIV/AIDS in Lesotho, a tiny kingdom where up to 30 percent of adults already have the virus, a U.N. official said on Friday." ... "Stephen Lewis, the U.N. special envoy for AIDS in Africa, said Lesotho's battle against AIDS highlighted problems in the international community's response to the disease in Africa, home to some 25 million of the world's total estimated 37.8 million people living with HIV." ... ""The problem now is human capacity. Lesotho has a problem of nurses. Lesotho like other African countries is struggling with brain drain to countries such as Britain and Canada," he said." -By Ntsau Lekhetho -Reuters 

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20050708
• -  -  -  -  - "Canadian UN ambassador says no more [Canadian] troops for Haiti." ... "Canada cannot send more troops to Haiti right now, the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations said Friday, after UN Secretary General Kofi Annan suggested he may call on Ottawa or Paris to send more forces for the mission." ... "In late June, the UN Security Council voted to beef up the Brazilian-led force in Haiti by about 1,000 troops and police in the runup to elections. That would bring its force to well over 8,000." -AP via -CBC.ca

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20050630
• -  -  - Drugs - "Canada to ban bulk drug exports, allow Internet sales." ... "Canada's health minister announced plans Wednesday to ban bulk exports of prescription drugs to the U.S. but stopped short of cracking down on the brisk cross-border trade in medications for American citizens." ... "Nearly 2 million Americans order prescription drugs from Canada each year, realizing savings of 20 percent to 80 percent off drug prices in this country. All together, Canada's Internet pharmacies rack up annual sales of about $1 billion, with another $500 million coming from so-called foot traffic across the border." -By Judith Graham -ChicagoTribune

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20050629
• -  - "More Canadian troops head for Afghanistan." ... "A group of nearly 200 soldiers from CFB Kingston, Ont., has started the journey to Afghanistan's Kandahar region." -CBC.ca

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20050625
• US - UK - Canada - WV - Washington - Hastings - DeLay - Abramoff - Ed Cassidy - Nuclear - Money - Travel - Law - "Ethics claims target Doc Hastings." ... "[Washington state Republican Representative] Rep. Doc Hastings, already under fire as chairman of the stalled House ethics committee, accepted a $7,800 trip to England [UK] in 2000 from a company he championed for a multibillion-dollar contract at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, records released by an advocacy group yesterday show." ... "In addition, other records released yesterday by a political Web site show that Hastings, a Republican from Pasco, did not file a required travel report for a 2004 trip to a resort on Stuart Island, B.C. [British Columbia, Canada] That was paid for by another company also working at Hanford." ... "Hastings has been under fire for not scheduling hearings on ethics allegations against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. DeLay is accused of accepting a trip paid for by lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is under investigation over allegations that he defrauded clients of millions of dollars." ... "The ethics committee has been stalled for six weeks. Democrats, led by ranking member Alan Mollohan [Representative] of West Virginia, declined to meet after Hastings proposed making his longtime chief of staff, Ed Cassidy, staff director for the committee." ... "Mollohan said that violates rules that say professional staffers who take part in investigations of House members must be nonpartisan and elected by committee members."I don't think it's possible to make the rule clearer," he said. "It is very simple."" -By Alicia Mundy -SeattleTimes

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20050504
• -  -  -  - WalMart - "Wal-Mart Closure Touches Off Union Debate." ... "Wal-Mart is closing a store in a small city in northern Quebec after employees recently voted to unionize. The decision has the blue-collar town -- and the store's employees -- divided over who's to blame." ... "Workers at the Jonquiere Wal-Mart unionized the store in 2004, becoming the company's only union store in North America. Last week, Wal-Mart closed it. Officials say the location wasn't making money. Opinions in the French-Canadian city range from those who love Wal-Mart's low prices to those who can't stand its labor practices." -By Frank Langfitt -NPR/News

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20050406
• -  -  -  - "Americans to need passports to return from Mexico, Canada." ... "Americans will be required to show U.S. passports when they re-enter the United States from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean by 2008 under proposed new rules announced Tuesday by the State and Homeland Security departments." ... "The new policy, which would be phased in by 2008 and is designed to thwart terrorists from exploiting the relative ease of travel in North America, means that Americans who lack U.S. passports would have to obtain them to travel between the United States and neighboring nations. It also will require Mexicans and Canadians to present passports or another official document to enter this country, with details to be determined." -By Edwin Garcia with contributions by AP and WashingtonPostvia MercuryNews 

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20050328
• -  - New York - "Visible storage catches on in museums." ... "In most museums, famous works by famous artists are shown in spacious galleries, and what a visitor views is at the discretion of the curators." ... "But the Brooklyn Museum's new addition catches the eye more for its volume than its vastness. Large, sleek shelving of steel and glass fill this area, giving the space a futuristic and somewhat antiseptic feel." ... "Curators say the model for the new visible storage space was inspired by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The museum was developed in 1976, using display cases and drawer units to show about 14,000 objects that included everything from coins to canoes." ... "Created in 1982, the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, is another model often copied." -AP via -CNN

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20050323
• -  -  -  - "U.S. Unveils New Pact With Canada, Mexico." ... "President Bush, seeking smooth relations with U.S. neighbors despite dustups over immigration, trade and defense, announced on Wednesday a pact with Canada and Mexico to broaden cooperation on security and economic issues." ... "Neither Mexico nor Canada backed Bush's decision to invade Iraq, and that chilled relations between Bush and the two nations early in his first term. Relations have generally remained amiable, however, and all three leaders — Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin — all appeared cordial when they met with reporters here after their trilateral meeting." -By Jennifer Loven -AP via -SFGate.com 

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20050318
• -  -  -  - "How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate? A bold new hypothesis suggests that our ancestors' farming practices kicked off global warming thousands of years before we started burning coal and driving cars." ... "New evidence suggests that concentrations of CO2 started rising about 8,000 years ago, even though natural trends indicate they should have been dropping. Some 3,000 years later the same thing happened to methane, another heat-trapping gas. The consequences of these surprising rises have been profound. Without them, current temperatures in northern parts of North America and Europe would be cooler by three to four degrees Celsius--enough to make agriculture difficult. In addition, an incipient ice age--marked by the appearance of small ice caps--would probably have begun several thousand years ago in parts of northeastern Canada. Instead the earth's climate has remained relatively warm and stable in recent millennia." -By William F. Ruddiman -March 2005 -Ed. -ScientificAmerican

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20050311
• -  - "Discount airline Jetsgo seeks bankruptcy." ... "Discount Canadian airline Jetsgo sought bankruptcy court protection and abruptly canceled all its flights Friday, stranding an estimated 17,000 passengers, many of whom were heading out on spring break." -AP via -USATODAY 

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20050224
• -  -  - "Canada Opts Out of U.S. Defense Shield: Canada Opts Out of U.S. Missile Defense Shield, Further Straining Relations With Neighbor." ... "Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that Canada would not join the contentious U.S. missile defense program, a decision that will further strain brittle relations between the neighbors but please Canadians who fear it could lead to an international arms race." ... "The federal budget presented to the House of Commons calls for $10.5 billion in the next five years to increase the country's beleaguered armed forces including an additional 5,000 soldiers and 3,000 reservists the largest commitment to defense in two decades. It also called for another $807,950 to improve Canada's anti-terrorism efforts and security along the unarmed, 4,000-mile border with the United States." (1, 2) -By Beth Duff-Brown -AP via -ABCNEWS

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20040721
• -  - "Haiti receives $1-billion in pledges: Aid promised as [Canadian] troops prepare to pull out." ... "But the fledgling peacekeeping force in Haiti is woefully short of soldiers, with only 2,200 on the ground, compared with the 8,000 the UN says are necessary. And nearly one-quarter of that force, the 520-strong Canadian contingent, will start packing to go home this week." ... "The departure of the Canadians will leave about 1,700 UN peacekeepers to cope with Haiti's sporadic violence and widespread crime. Contingents from other countries have been slow to arrive -- for instance, of an expected 200 Argentine soldiers who are supposed to take over in Gonaïves next week, only a small advance party has reached Haiti." -By Paul Koring -TheGlobeAndMail.com

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20040301
• -  -  -  - "U.S. may step up [Haitian]peace force to 2,000." ... "The number of U.S. troops in Haiti could reach about 2,000, and a decision had not been made late Monday on whether to station ships off the coast of the troubled Caribbean nation, defense officials said." ... "U.S. Marines, along with French and Canadian troops, continued to arrive in Haiti and were expected to do so for several more days." ... "The U.N. Security Council authorized the deployment of an interim multinational force hours after Aristide's departure. According to the United Nations, a stabilization force is expected to take over from the interim operation in three months." -By George Edmonson contributed to by Mark Bixler -AJC 

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20040113
• "Kodak to stop selling some cameras in U.S." ... "Eastman Kodak (EK) said Tuesday that it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, another move by the troubled photography company to cut lines with declining appeal in favor of fast-growing digital products." -Reuters via -USATODAY 

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• -  -  -  -  - "Bush: Canada eligible in Iraq reconstruction contracts." ... "President Bush moved to ease tensions with Canada Tuesday by reversing course and declaring Canadian companies eligible to bid on a second round of U.S.-financed prime reconstruction contracts in Iraq." ... "The reversal was seen as a goodwill gesture toward Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, who took office last month." ... "The White House indicated that other opponents of the war, including France and Germany, might be able to join the next round of bidding." -By Richard Benedetto with contributions by James Cox -USATODAY 

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20031217
• -  -  - Christmas News - "Christmas boxes bring Afghan mob scene." ... "Attempts by Canadians to hand out almost 2,000 Christmas gift boxes to impoverished Afghan children Wednesday turned into a melee as some of their parents beat back the young people trying to reach the presents and soldiers had to stop them." ... "A Canadian Forces truck was quickly surrounded by hundreds of children as it arrived at a hillside camp in Kabul, where internally displaced people (IDPs, as they are known by the military) live destitute lives in makeshift housing." -GlobeAndMail 

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20031212
• "Canada to Charge Music Royalties on MP3s." ... "The cost of an MP3 player will increase in Canada after the government's copyright agency decided Friday to charge a tax of up to $19 per unit to reimburse singers and songwriters." ... "The new levy on MP3s will use a sliding scale depending on memory size: $1.50 for units with up to 1 gigabyte, $11.25 for 1 to 10 gigabytes, and $19 for devices of more than 10 gigabytes. Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod player, for example, comes with 10, 20 or 40 gigabytes." -By Colin McClellan -AP via -WashingtonPost>TechNews 

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• "Martin takes over reins as 21st Prime Minister." ... "Paul Martin became Canada's 21st Prime Minister on Friday, ending his quest for the top job in the federal government and promising sweeping changes to the way the country is governed." ... "It was the final step in his journey to become prime minister after his election as Liberal Leader last month." ... "Mr. Martin ran for the Liberal leadership in 1990 and lost to former prime minister Jean Chretien. Mr. Martin officially took office Friday from Mr. Chretien, who resigned earlier in the day." -By Allison Dunfield -GlobeAndMail 

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20031120
• -  - "FirstEnergy Blamed for Blackout in Report: U.S.-Canadian Probe Blames Failures at Ohio-Based Utility FirstEnergy for August Blackout." ... "A computer malfunction at an Ohio utility played a major role in the nation's worst blackout, but a U.S.-Canadian task force said power grid operators still should have prevented the Aug. 14 outage from spreading through eight states and Canada.Energy Secretary Spencer"This blackout was largely preventable," [U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer] Abraham said. He lamented the federal government's limited ability to take punitive action for a blackout that put 50 million people in the dark, including all of New York City, Cleveland and Detroit, and knocked out more than 260 power plants." -AP via -ABCNEWS.com

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20031117
• -  -  - Civil Liberties News - "U.S. calls him a Qaeda pawn; ex-deportee calls himself a victim." ... "Maher Arar has been back from Syria for five weeks now, with his wife and two children in their simple [Canadian] apartment, earnestly pleading to all who will listen that he is an innocent casualty of the Bush administration's war on terror." ... "As Arar tells it, U.S. officials detained him on circumstantial evidence during what was supposed to be a brief stopover at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sept. 26, 2002. Within days, they packed him off to Syria, where, he says, he was locked in squalor and tortured for nearly a year. Though he holds dual Canadian and Syrian citizenship, he had not lived in Syria for 16 years." -By Clifford Krauss -NYTimes via -IHT.com 

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20030812
• - - "Merrill Lynch rocked by $43m embezzlement claim:  Wall Street bank's former chief energy trader under investigation over offshore cash." ... "Merrill Lynch was plunged into fresh controversy yesterday when allegations emerged that a former energy trader had embezzled $43m (£28m) from the firm." ... "The former chief energy trader, Daniel Gordon, is being investigated by US and Canadian authorities for allegedly disguising a payment made in 2000 to Falcon Energy Holdings, an offshore company he controlled, as an insurance contract to cover power shortages." -David Teather -Guardian.co.uk

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20030601
• -  -  -  -  -  -  - "Switzerland, Usually Calm, Erupts in Protest of G-8 Talks." ... "Switzerland is not a country accustomed to demonstrations and crowd control and police struggled today to respond to protesters who blocked highways, roads and bridges; set fire to barricades; sprayed graffiti on buildings and cars; destroyed property and hurled rocks, bottles and insults at them." ... "The most violent protests occurred in Geneva and in the city of Lausanne 30 miles away, where heads of state who are not part of the elite group of eight — France, the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia — are staying." ... "Riot police wearing helmets and carrying shields, a common sight in France but certainly not in Switzerland, clashed at several points with protesters. The police, who were under orders not to use force against the protesters, tried to disperse them with masses of tear gas." (1, 2) -By Elaine Sciolino, John Tagliabue, Helene Fouquet and Alison Langley -NYTimes via -Google-News 

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20030430
• -  - "WHO lifts warning as Canada halts SARS gains." ... "WHO Director General Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway and a medical doctor, said the magnitude of the SARS outbreak in Toronto has decreased. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva after meeting with a delegation of Canadian health officials, Brundtland said: ''It has now been 20 days since the last cases of community transmission, and there are no confirmed new export cases out of Toronto or Canada. We will be lifting the travel advice for Toronto, Canada.''" ... "In Asia, the disease continued to spread. Hong Kong reported 12 new deaths, China nine, and Singapore one. The global death toll climbed to at least 355, with more than 5,300 infections in more than 20 countries, including probable cases reported for the first time in South Korea, Mongolia, and New Zealand." -By Colin Nickerson -Boston/Globe 

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20030424
• -  - "SARS travel warning stuns Toronto:  WHO also cites areas in China." ... "In a warning that could have devastating economic consequences for Canada's largest city, the World Health Organization advised yesterday against all nonessential travel to Toronto. It was the latest effort to curb the global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the virus better known as SARS." ... "China's capital city, Beijing, and Shanxi province were also added to the health organization's list of regions with levels of infection high enough to warrant the unusual advisories. Earlier this month, the Geneva-based WHO warned against travel to Hong Kong and the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where SARS is believed to have originated in November." -By Colin Nickerson -Boston/Globe 

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20030317
• - "Pneumonia 'worldwide threat'" ... "The World Health Organi-sation has described a mysterious form of pneumonia in Asia as "a worldwide health threat" after a rise in the incidence of the illness across the region and nine deaths." ... "The WHO said at the weekend it had received reports from Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand of the illness, an atypical form of pneumonia called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [SARS]." -By Rahul Jacob -FT.com 

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20030210
• -  - "Canada backs Turkey in NATO dispute over Iraq." ... "Canada said on Monday it backed Ankara in a dispute over whether the NATO alliance should help Turkey strengthen its defenses in case of a U.S-led assault on Iraq." -Reutersvia -AlertNet.org/Newsdesk 

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20020926
• - "U.S. Children Trapped in Ivory Coast Flown to Ghana." ... "Armed United States soldiers stood by the C-130 plane as about 20 Americans went aboard in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast's capital, where they were taken by French troops who rescued them on Wednesday." ... "A total of 191 Westerners — 148 Americans, including 98 children, and 43 others, including French and Canadians —were escorted from the International Christian Academy in Bouaké, where they had been trapped for six days." -By Norimitsu Onishi -NYTimes via -AltaVista-News 

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20020913
• -  - "U.S. pilots face charges in Afghan bombing of Canadians." ... "The U.S. Air Force is expected to announce criminal charges as early as Friday against two American F-16 fighter pilots who mistakenly bombed Canadian troops in Afghanistan in April, killing four and injuring eight, U.S. defence officials said on Thursday." -By Charles Aldinger -Reuters/Asia

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20020830
• WEST NILE VIRUS - "West Nile Case Suspected In Canada." ... "Ontario health officials said Friday they believe three people sick in the province have the West Nile virus, which would be Canada's first human cases of the mosquito-born illness that has killed 24 people in the United States this year."  -AP via  -Guardian.co.uk

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