TORONTO – A dropped word forced Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to hold a second, secret swearing-in ceremony as the new minister of agriculture and food.
Five killed in Islamist car bomb attacks in north Mali
GAO, Mali (Reuters) – Five people were killed in a remote Malian town on Friday in car bomb attacks by Islamists on Tuareg MNLA rebels with close links to French forces, a spokesman for the Tuareg fighters said. Violence in northern Mali underscores the risk of French and African forces becoming entangled in a messy guerrilla war as they try to help Mali's weak army counter bombings and raids by al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants. … Greece: Fierce storm causes blackouts, road havoc
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Torrential rainfall in Greece's capital Friday crippled traffic, inundated basements and streets, and was blamed for the death of woman whose car was trapped in floodwater, authorities said. Abe: Japan acting calmly in island dispute with China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday said he told President Barack Obama in a meeting that Japan would act calmly in its row with China over tiny islan ds in the East China Sea claimed by both Asian countries. "I explained that we have always been dealing with this issue … in a calm manner," he said through a translator, while sitting next to Obama in the White House Oval Office. "We will continue to do so and we have always done so," he said. Abe said the existence of the Japan-U.S. alliance was a stabilizing factor in the region. … Global shares up on bargain hunting; euro tumbles on ECB repayments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global equity markets rose on Friday, recovering some of the previous session's sharp losses, but the euro hit a six-week low against the dollar on renewed doubts about the health of the euro zone's financial system. Oil prices edged up as evidence of improving business morale in Germany helped bolster sentiment after two days of heavy losses. Wall Street also edged higher on Friday, rebounding from two days of losses as shares of Dow component Hewlett-Packard surged on strong results. The stock jumped nearly 15 percent to $19. … Soldiers stole children during El Salvador's war
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- One of Gregoria Contreras' first childhood memories was the moment she last saw her parents. Defense cuts jeopardize NATO's effectiveness, Panetta warns
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Defense cuts and U.S. budget gridlock are jeopardizing NATO's effectiveness, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Friday. Leaving his last NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels, Panetta joined those warning of the effects of deep Defense cuts in many Western countries and said it would be an "irresponsible act of political dysfunction" if the U.S. Congress permitted sweeping across-the-board Defense cuts to take place. … Year after Once train crash, Argentine anger still seethes
Paolo Menghini’s t-shirt bears the face of his son, Lucas, a victim of one of Argentina’s deadliest train accidents, which occurred a year ago today.
Displaced who stay in Syria get little aid
ATMEH CAMP, Syria (AP) -- Turki Abdel Qadir, a burly villager from the northern countryside, fled to this muddy camp amid olive groves three months ago after his 13-year-old daughter Haifa was wounded in the civil war. Kremlin waits for US probe in Russian boy's death
MOSCOW (AP) -- Moscow should “temper emotions” over the death of a Russian boy adopted by an American family, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Friday after the U.S. ambassador urged Russian authorities and the media to stop their “sensational exploitations” of the case.
Ireland says Irish meat processor B&F shipped horse meat labeled 'beef' to Czech customer
DUBLIN – An Irish slaughterhouse has been caught labeling horse meat as beef and shipping it to a company in the Czech Republic, Ireland’s government announced Friday in the most clear-cut finding by any country since the European-wide scandal began a month ago.
U.N. says Congo again on brink, peacekeepers need to combat rebels
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo's resource-rich east is again on the brink of a major conflict, a senior U.N. official warned on Friday as he urged the U.N. Security Counci l to urgently approve plans for a peace enforcement unit to combat armed rebel groups. Roger Meece, head of the U.N. mission in Congo known as MONUSCO, told the Security Council that the creation of a peace enforcement unit within the peacekeeping force – which would be a new move for the United Nations – was "an urgently needed and important response to the existing situation on the ground. … Saskatchewan court orders RCMP killer's father to pay $10K for defaming Mountie
SASKATOON – The father of a convicted Mountie killer has been ordered to pay $10,000 to an RCMP officer for defaming him.
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