EDMONTON – The president of the Alberta School Boards Association says she’s disappointed with a trustee who suggested gay students should be less open about their sexual orientation.
Analysis: China car market may require "Two Fords"
DETROIT (Reuters) – Six years ago, the "One Ford" mantra saved Ford Motor Co from collapse. Now, Chief Ex ecutive Alan Mulally's unified global product strategy is facing a formidable test: winning over first-time Chinese buyers such as Zhang Haifeng. The 42-year-old teacher has seen his pay jump 27-fold over the last two decades, as China expanded its compulsory education system. After studying his options for a year, Zhang in April paid 70,000 yuan ($11,200) for his first car – General Motors Co's Baojun 630 sedan. … Haiti's rising food insecurity risks social tension, says FAO
ROME (Reuters) – Growing food insecurity in Haiti after Hurricane Sandy risks sparking more social tension, the United Nations Food Agency warned on Thursday, calling for food, farm and transport investment to boost the country’s resilience to climate shocks. Three natural disasters have hit the Caribbean island this year, including a drought in the summer and Hurricanes Isaac and Sandy. More than 40 percent of Haiti’s harvest was destroyed and losses of about $254 million incurred, U.N. estimates say. …
"Ice lady" gets life sentence for double murder
VIENNA (Reuters) – An ice-cream parlour owner dubbed the “ice lady” for the calculated way in which she killed her ex-husband and lover was sentenced to life in a secure mental institution on Thursday. Estibaliz Carranza, 34, had confessed to shooting the two men at close range in the back of the head, cutting up their bodies with a chainsaw, freezing them in a deep freeze and later interring them in concrete under the cellar of her store. …
Trial of Turkish coup general adjourned till January
ANKARA (Reuters) – The trial of former Turkish president General Kenan Evren over a 1980 military coup that led to mass torture and executions was adjourned on Thursday until January to allow for more evidence. The trial of 95-year-old Evren, symbol of an era when the army dominated Turkish politics, is a landmark in the steady erosion of the military’s power under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. It also offers the country a chance to confront one of its bloodiest periods since the republic’s foundation in 1923. …
Robert Pickton inquiry report handed in; will be made public next month
VICTORIA – The man who led a public inquiry into the failed police investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton has handed in his report to the B.C. government.
France should study takeover of ArcelorMittal plant: minister
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s industry minister said on Thursday that the government should consider a takeover of two threatened French blast furnaces at ArcelorMittal’s Florange steel plant, as it tries to prop up the country’s struggling industrial sector. “The question … of eventual government control, even temporary, should be seriously studied by the government,” Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg told the Senate. …
Britain bans Nigerian Islamist group accused of murder
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday banned a Nigeria-based Islamist group it said was aligned with al Qaeda as a minister said the oulawed organisation was probably responsible for the killing of a Briton and an Italian. Britain’s interior ministry described the group – Ansaru – as “a Nigeria-based terrorist organisation motivated by an anti-Nigerian government and anti-Western agenda”. The two men Britain believes the group murdered were Chris McManus, a Briton, and Franco Lamolinara, an Italian. …
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