CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's president set parliamentary elections to begin in April -- a decision that an opposition leader denounced Friday as "a recipe for disaster" because of the ongoing political turmoil in the country. German police return smuggled artifacts to Kosovo
Seven artifacts dating as far back as 4,000 B.C. have been returned to Kosovo after German police stumbled on them in an unrelated raid, the country's culture minister said Friday. Syrian Canadians despair for relatives trapped by war, call on Kenney to do more
OTTAWA – Every bomb that explodes in Damascus strikes at the heart of a woman in suburban Ottawa, leaving her to wonder why the government here is not helping to get her son out of the besieged Syrian capital.
Garneau would open constitutional talks on Senate reform, despite risks
OTTAWA – Liberal leadership hopeful Marc Garneau says he’s not afraid to open up constitutional negotiations in a bid to reform Canada’s unelected Senate.
Lawsuits highlight issue of patients who refuse to see doctors, nurses of different race
DETROIT – It’s been called one of the “open secrets” in the U.S. medical world -- allowing patients to refuse treatment by a doctor or nurse of another race.
Iran maneuvers for upper hand ahead of nuclear talks
Iran is continuing to advance its nuclear program, according to a new report by United Nations inspectors, gaining bargaining chips on the eve of a new round of talks with six world powers in Kazakhstan.
Brazil's 2014 election campaign gets off to early start
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil's 2014 election season got off to an unusually early start this week with the unofficial launch of President Dilma Rousseff's re-election campaign by her mentor and predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Celebrating his Workers' Party's 10th year in power, Lula laid to rest speculation that he would run again by anointing Rousseff as the party's best option to stay in power. … Oscar Pistorius gets bail as murder trial looms
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius walked out of a South African court Friday a free man -- for now -- after a magistrate agreed to release him on bail ahead of his premeditated murder trial over the shooting death of his girlfriend. No trauma signs on body of Canadian woman found in L.A. hotel water tank
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The autopsy of a 21-year-old Canadian student found dead in a water tank atop a historic Los Angeles hotel turned up no fatal wounds, offering no clear answers to her puzzling last days and death, coroner's officials said on Friday. The inconclusive finding means that further tests must be conducted to determine a cause of death for Elisa Lam, who went missing from the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles under suspicious circumstances in late January. … Head of U.S. special forces says alliances needed to fight extremism
OTTAWA – The head of American special forces says the U.S. cannot address all of the emerging challenges by itself and is relying on allies, such as Canada, to help deal with flashpoints around the world.
Boeing 787 battery fix proposal to FAA not temporary fix: sources
WASHINGTON/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Boeing Co's proposal for preventing battery problems that have grounde d its entire fleet of 50 787 Dreamliners is not a temporary stop-gap measure aimed at getting the airplanes flying again, three sources familiar with the plan said. he proposal, being made to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Friday, includes specific measures aimed at addressing possible causes of short-circuits that prompted one of the lithium-ion batteries on board a 787 to catch fire at a Boston airport in January, the sources said. … Guatemala: No evidence of gunfight or capo's death
SAN VALENTIN, Guatemala (AP) -- A Guatemalan official said Friday there was no evidence that Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, had been killed in a shootout in the rural north, calling such reports a misunderstanding.Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla told local media that the original account was based on testimony from residents in San Valentin near the Mexican border, but that soldiers and police scanning the area found no sign of any confrontation. 
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