WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday called North Korea's latest nuclear test a "highly provocative act" that threatens U.S. security and international peace. Forecaster says salaries going up faster than expected in Saskatchewan, Alberta
OTTAWA – A new economic forecast says salaries in Saskatchewan and Alberta are going up faster than expected while Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia are lagging.
Libya focuses on border, integrating ex-fighters
PARIS (AP) -- Libya's government is struggling to control its borders and retrieve the arms and explosives that were looted after longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi's downfall, according to the conclusions of an international meeting on Libyan security on Tuesday. Syrian rebels storm base defending Aleppo airport
BEIRUT (AP) -- Activists say rebels have stormed a base that is in charge of protecting the international airport in the contested northern city of Aleppo, leaving dozens dead. Barclays halts agriculture trading with hedge funds
LONDON (Reuters) – Barclays is halting agricultural trading with hedge funds in a move to burnish its reputation amid a major overhaul, but will still market index-linked investment products in the sector. The British bank is among several financial institutions to have come under fire for speculating on grain and other agriculture products, which critics say has pushed up food prices and fuelled unrest in some poor countries. …
Group of 7 leading economies warns on adverse effects of exchange rate volatility
BRUSSELS – The Group of Seven leading industrial nations sought Tuesday to defuse escalating fears of an impending “currency war”, warning that volatile movements in exchange rates could adversely hit the global economy.
AP Interview: African papal contender wants change
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- One of Africa's brightest hopes to be the next pope, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, says the time is right for a pontiff from the developing world. Give Canadian firms bigger role in military contracts: report
OTTAWA – Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose has been given a series of recommendations on how to fix the troubled military procurement system.
Iran denies officials to be questioned over Buenos Aires bombing
DUBAI (Reuters) – Tehran denied on Tuesday it had agreed to allow international investigators to question Iranian officials over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires as part of a plan to form a truth commission. Following the bombing which killed 85 people, Argentinian authorities in 2007 secured Interpol arrest warrants for five Iranians and a Lebanese. Iran denies links to the attack. …
South Sudan accuses Sudan of troops build-up on border
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan on Tuesday accused Sudan of building up forces along their border, in a sign that efforts to set up a buffer zone between the neighbors and resume the oil exports vital to both economies have made no progress. The two countries came close to war last April in the worst border clashes since South Sudan seceded in 2011 under a peace agreement that ended one of Africa’s longest civil wars. The African Union brokered a deal in September to defuse hostilities. …
Brazil's affirmative action law offers a huge hand up
Thaiana Rodrigues, the daughter of an esthetician in Rio de Janeiro, tried to get into college three times. But having spent most of her childhood in poor public schools - her anatomy teacher in seventh grade never showed up to class so she simply never learned the subject - Ms. Rodrigues was unable to pass the entrance exam.
African heritage in Latin America
For tourists who roam the cobblestone streets of Colombia’s colonial city of Cartagena, black women in bright dresses carrying mounds of fresh tropical fruit or coconut sweets in aluminum bowls on their heads offer a colorful vacation snapshot.
Retiring Pope Benedict XVI in uncharted territory
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- For months, construction crews have been renovating a four-story building attached to a monastery on the northern edge of the Vatican gardens where nuns would live for a few years at a time in cloister. Tunisian Islamist leader expects new government this week
TUNIS (Reuters) – The leader of Tunisia's main Islamist Ennahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, said on Tuesday he ex pected Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali to form a coalition government this week that would include politicians as well as technocrats. "I expect that agreement will be reached and I expect Jebali will remain the prime minister of a coalition government," he told Reuters in an interview. … Pope's resignation could hurt Berlusconi in Italian vote
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Benedict’s resignation could limit the chances of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi closing the gap on the center-left frontrunner before this month’s election, some pollsters and analysts say. Berlusconi, who seemed certain to lose a few months ago, has staged an aggressive campaign based on tax-cut promises that has eroded the lead of Pier Luigi Bersani’s Democratic Party (PD) and raised the prospect of an inconclusive outcome. …
Carney says Canada in a very different position from Britain
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Incoming Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who currently heads the Bank of Canada, said on Tuesday Canada was in a very different financial position from Britain. "Here in Canada we are in a very different position than that in the United Kingdom. We don't have large public and private indebtedness, we are not at zero lower bound (interest rates), we don't have the problems in the financial sector that exist over there," he told Canada's House of Commons finance committee. (Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Jeffrey Hodgson) Egypt court jails Israeli for two years: court sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced an Israeli man to two years in prison for crossing illegally into the Sinai peninsula, court sources said on Tuesday. Egypt said in December it had arrested the man after he slipped into the Sinai’s Taba region and took photographs of security buildings. State media at that time identified the man, Andrei Pshenichnikov, as a 24-year-old army officer. Israeli media said he was a civilian and a pro-Palestinian activist. The ruling by the court in the Nuweiba area of Sinai was issued on Monday. …
Court upholds $28M award to Grand Canyon Skywalk developer in dispute with Arizona tribe
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A federal court on Monday dealt a blow to the business arm of a northern Arizona tribe that owns the Grand Canyon Skywalk by upholding a $28.5 million judgment in favour of a Las Vegas developer who invested the money to build the horseshoe-shaped glass bridge on tribal land.
Baltimore-Washington airport sets passenger record for 3rd year, sees 22.6M passengers in 2012
LINTHICUM, Md. – For the third year in a row Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport has set a record for passenger traffic.
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