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Missing American documentary maker found dead in northern British Columbia
NEW HAZELTON, B.C. – A documentary film maker from Ohio who disappeared in northern British Columbia while working on a project about rare spirit bears has been found dead.

DeRozan's 20 points helps Raptors past Magic 97-86; Calderon has 18 assists
TORONTO – DeMar DeRozan scored 20 points and the Toronto Raptors rallied in the fourth quarter Sunday to defeat the Orlando Magic 97-86 at Air Canada Centre.

Cameron hires rival's strategist to boost poll hopes
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron has hired an Australian political strategist to mastermind his party's re-elec tion campaign and draw a line under months of policy reversals that have seen his Conservatives slump in popularity. The party said on Sunday Cameron had appointed Lynton Crosby as an adviser for national polls due in 2015, days after the Conservatives crashed to a bruising defeat in a parliamentary by-election in a bellwether middle England seat. …

MacKay calls on Russia to exert influence to end civil war in Syria
HALIFAX – Canada’s Defence Minister Peter MacKay called on Russia Sunday to exert influence to end the Syrian civil war, accusing it of standing on the slidelines as the country “falls apart at the seams.”

Armstrong case a victory in larger fight against doping, world agency says
MONTREAL – The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency says the case against Lance Armstrong doesn’t mean the fight against performance-enhancing drugs will be over any time soon.

One dead, eight hurt after small plane crashes in northern Manitoba
SNOW LAKE, Man. – One person is dead and eight others are injured, some seriously, after a small plane crashed in Snow Lake, Man., about 700 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

Hamas links truce to end of Gaza border blockade
Gaza's Hamas rulers are aiming high in the conditions they place on stopping rocket fire into Israel in indirect cease-fire talks launched this weekend. Emboldened by Arab support and confident in their arsenal, the Islamists say calm can only come if Israel opens the gates of the tiny, closed-off territory.

Rupert Murdoch's Jewish problem. And his Egyptian one.
One of the pleasures of following Rupert Murdoch’s account on Twitter is that the brief notes left there seem to have been written by the man himself.