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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:09 PM
Insurgent video shows Toronto student
CBC News has confirmed the identity of a Toronto man - believed to have joined an al-Qaeda-linked group in Somalia and killed in battle - on an insurgent group's online video.
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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 12:49 PM
Irish cardinal apologizes for hiding abuse
Ireland's senior Catholic Church cardinal on Wednesday offered an apology for his handling of a case involving an abusive priest decades ago, and said he doesn't know what his future holds.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:09 PM
Red Cross tsunami workers abused: report
Some construction workers hired by the Canadian Red Cross to help rebuild communities following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were left stranded and never paid for their work, according to an investigation by Radio-Canada.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 5:53 PM
Haim's death leads to arrest: report
An arrest has been made in connection with the California investigation into the death of Canadian-born actor Corey Haim, according to a CNN.com report.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 6:33 PM
Gays, lesbians excluded from U.S. trials: MDs
Some medical studies exclude participants based on their sexual orientation, say U.S. cancer researchers who urged scientists to explain their criteria.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:55 PM
Computer programmers accused of helping Bernard Madoff conceal pyramid scheme are indicted
NEW YORK - Two former employees accused of helping fraudulent Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff program an old computer to generate false records have been indicted.
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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:54 PM
Authorities: Officer responding to report of runaway Prius in US saw flashing brake lights
EL CAJON, Calif. - A California Highway Patrol report released Wednesday said an officer saw brake lights flashing after arriving to help slow a speeding Toyota Prius on a Southern California freeway.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:29 PM
Venezuela's largest food producer to challenge expropriation of warehouses, offices
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's largest food producer says it will ask the country's Supreme Court to annul a mayor's order to expropriate property where it has warehouses and offices.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:25 PM
Fiji cyclone damage is overwhelming, prime minister says as troops start relief operations
SUVA, Fiji - A powerful cyclone destroyed more than half the houses in many villages in northern Fiji, but only one death has been reported, officials said Thursday.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:20 PM
VP Biden trips over St. Pat's blessing for Irish prime minister's not-so-late mother
WASHINGTON - Vice-President Joe Biden asked for God's blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick's Day - except the elderly lady is very much alive.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:12 PM
Taliban fight in Afghan town with fear campaign
MARJAH, Afghanistan — A month after losing control of their southern base in Marjah, the Taliban have begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its Afghan allies.
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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 11:43 AM
Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:35 PM
Medvedev: Russia must push claim to Arctic resources
MOSCOW — Russia must defend its claims to mineral riches of the Arctic in increasing competition with other powers, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:16 PM
Deal reached to cancel US$1.6 billion in Afghan debt
WASHINGTON — The United States has reached an agreement with other countries to cancel US$1.6 billion in foreign debt owed by Afghanistan to creditor nations and international lending organizations.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 3:38 PM
Pope writes to Irish faithful as scandal broadens
Pope Benedict XVI announced Wednesday he will write a letter to Irish Catholics in which he addresses the growing sex abuse scandal, a gesture he hopes will help with "repentance, healing and renewal."
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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 12:38 PM
Israel lifts West Bank closure
Israel lifted its closure of the West Bank and granted open access to Jerusalem's holiest shrine on Wednesday, a day after some of the worst violence in the area in months.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 12:18 PM
U.K. climate change ads pulled
The British government is being forced to pull two advertisements about climate change that have been ruled misleading by the country's advertising watchdog.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:04 AM
Red River rising in North Dakota
People in Fargo, N.D., are scrambling to protect buildings along the Red River, hoping to avoid some of the damage that came with last year's rising waters.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 5:29 AM
Guilty plea expected in Mumbai terror case
A U.S. man accused of scouting targets in Mumbai before the deadly 2008 terror attacks is expected to enter a guilty plea, a U.S. court says.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:14 AM
Seal quota hike disastrous: U.S. group
A U.S. seal hunt protest group says increasing the quota for harp seals will lead to what it calls an "ecological disaster" on Canada's East Coast.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:20 AM
Thai protesters toss blood at PM's house
Dozens of red-shirted protesters tossed plastic bags full of donated blood into the residential compound of the Thai prime minister Wednesday, hoping to force the embattled leader to hold new elections.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 8:34 AM
Drone strike kills 9 in Pakistan
Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at vehicles and hit a militant hideout in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least nine insurgents, two officials said.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 10:22 PM
Cannon condemns Israel's new settlement plan
Canada's Foreign Affairs department had denied its minister was using tougher language against Israel when he condemned the announcement to build 1,600 apartments in east Jerusalem.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 2:49 PM
Oprah defamation case goes to trial
A jury will decide whether TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey defamed the former headmistress of her girls' school in South Africa.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 10:26 PM
British pensioners lose court bid
A European court rejected the claim of thousands of British pensioners living in Canada, Australia, South Africa and other countries who have been trying to force the U.K. government to index their pensions.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:17 PM
American terror suspects living in average US communities show challenge of homegrown problem
WASHINGTON - One was a drywall contractor and father, another a petite woman who cared for the elderly, another a U.S. military officer. The most alarming thing about a string of recently arrested terror suspects is that they are all Americans.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:09 PM
Obama spars with Fox News anchor during interview punctuated by interruptions and chiding
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:06 PM
Senior official: Al-Qaida leader linked to bombing of CIA post believed killed in US strike
WASHINGTON - An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 8:26 PM
Clinton in Mideast strategy session as administration struggles with setbacks on Israeli front
WASHINGTON - With the Mideast peace process stalled and U.S.-Israeli relations in crisis, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton headed Wednesday to a Mideast strategy meeting of top international diplomats.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:57 PM
Haitian parents reunited with 32 children they turned over to detained US missionary group
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Joyful parents on Wednesday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:55 PM
Was Ala. snack food heir's death tied to business?
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An angry letter and a bag of Golden Flake chips were taped inside Major Bashinsky's abandoned car when it was found near downtown Birmingham.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:51 PM
Research monkey deaths prompt calls for crackdown
SPARKS, Nevada - Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:37 PM
Minnesota man arrested in Chicago, charged with selling wife for sex on Craigslist
CHICAGO - A woman feared she'd never see her young child again unless she complied with her husband's scheme to sell her sexual services on Craigslist, authorities said Wednesday.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:33 PM
Kilts, green body paint decorate NYC as marchers worldwide parade for St. Patrick
NEW YORK - All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day with bagpipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:20 PM
Yemen-American radical preacher issues message calling for US Muslims to go against their govt
CAIRO, Egypt - A Yemeni-American Muslim preacher known for his ties to extremists operating in the U.S. called on American Muslims in a new audio message to turn against their government because of its actions against Muslims around the world.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:17 AM
Thai protesters hurl own blood at PM's house
BANGKOK — Leaders of Thailand's anti-government protesters, who have hurled their own blood at the offices and home of the prime minister, said Wednesday they will remain camped out in capital indefinitely, though in smaller numbers.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 10:44 AM
Suspect in Berlin poker heist surrenders to authorities
BERLIN — A man who admits to taking part in a brazen daylight raid on a poker tournament in Berlin surrendered to authorities and identified three accomplices who remain on the run, officials said Wednesday.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 8:32 AM
Dozens dead after bus plunges off Afghan mountain road
KABUL, Afghanistan — A bus plunged off a mountain road in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains Wednesday, catching fire and leaving as many as 35 people dead, though authorities were still pulling burned bodies from the wreckage.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:16 AM
Fiji cyclone damage overwhelming, leader says
SUVA, Fiji — Fiji has suffered overwhelming damage in a powerful weekend cyclone, the prime minister said Wednesday, as the first word of houses blown away, trees uprooted, and roads blocked trickled in from regions cut off since the storm.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 9:20 AM
Prep school staffer suspected of trying to poison soup
LONDON — A kitchen worker at an exclusive English boarding school has been arrested for trying to poison a batch of soup being prepared for students, administrators said Wednesday.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:26 PM
Risque photo spread surprises former Edwards aide
The author of a tell-all book about the downfall of former U.S. senator John Edwards, says he is surprised that the mistress of his former boss has chosen to speak about her lifestyle to a major U.S. magazine, when she has already been in the limelight for unfavourable reasons.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:52 PM
Irish at home, worldwide cheer St. Patrick's Day
The biggest holiday in Ireland, St. Patrick's Day, is also cause for celebration around the rest of the world, as bar owners tint their beer green and people everywhere dig deep to find their inner Irish.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 6:16 AM
Two missile attacks kill 9 in Pakistan: officials
ISLAMABAD — Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at vehicles and hit a militant hide-out in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least nine insurgents, two officials said.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 6:27 AM
Riots in Uganda after ancient tombs set alight
KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan policewoman says rioters have attacked policemen, firefighters and soldiers in the capital after the tombs of five ancient kings were destroyed overnight by fire.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 6:28 AM
Textbooks depict misleading view of Muslims: group
PHILADELPHIA — A series of U.S. children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as hostile and deserving of suspicion, according to a U.S. Muslim civil liberties group.
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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:57 PM
Haitian parents reunited with 32 children they turned over to detained US missionary group
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Joyful parents on Wednesday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago.
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Last Updated: March 17 2010, 4:11 PM
Sliding into danger? Canada develops avalanche warnings for across North America
CALGARY - Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice says Parks Canada has developed an avalanche warning scale that will be used across North America starting next winter.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 7:43 AM
Fiji cyclone damage is overwhelming, prime minister says as troops start relief operations
SUVA, Fiji - Fiji has suffered overwhelming damage in a powerful weekend cyclone, the prime minister said Wednesday, as the first word of houses blown away, trees uprooted, and roads blocked trickled in from regions cut off since the storm.
Last Updated: March 17 2010, 5:13 AM
Fiji cyclone damage is overwhelming, prime minister says as troops start relief operations
SUVA, Fiji - The South Pacific island nation of Fiji has suffered overwhelming damage from a powerful cyclone that battered its shores for more than three days, the prime minister said Wednesday as relief operations were launched in the country's northern regions.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 2:45 PM
Volunteers along rising Red River fill more sandbags, build dikes to prepare for flood waters
FARGO, N.D. - Volunteers in North Dakota were in flood-fighting mode again Tuesday filling sandbags while contractors constructed clay levees along the fast-rising Red River to help protect nearby homes from the murky waters.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 1:45 PM
Evidence to determine whether charges warranted in B.C. avalanche deaths: RCMP
VANCOUVER, B.C. - RCMP are investigating whether criminal charges should be laid after a deadly avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C. they've described as human-triggered.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 10:29 AM
Fiji declares state of emergency after powerful cyclone lashes northern island groups
SUVA, Fiji - Fiji declared a state of emergency Tuesday and ordered troops to launch relief operations in northern regions battered by a powerful cyclone that knocked out power and forced thousands of people to flee into shelters.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 8:18 AM
Red Cross: Haiti won't have enough hurricane-proof homes by the time storm season starts
GENEVA - The Red Cross federation says it is impossible to give all of Haiti's earthquake survivors hurricane-proof dwellings before the storm season starts in June.
Last Updated: March 16 2010, 4:51 AM
Fiji declares state of emergency after powerful cyclone lashes northern island groups
SUVA, Fiji - Fiji declared a state of emergency Tuesday and ordered troops to launch relief operations in northern regions battered by a powerful cyclone that knocked out power and forced thousands of people to flee into shelters.
Last Updated: March 15 2010, 3:22 PM
Snowmobilers against rules in back-country, despite avalanche deaths
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Snowmobilers remain opposed to having their back-country fun regulated despite a weekend avalanche that killed two Alberta men and injured 31 others.