TORONTO – First Nations and legal communities will be watching closely on Tuesday when a former Supreme Court of Canada justice delivers a report on whether on-reserve aboriginals have been systematically excluded from Ontario’s juries.
Nexen reports loss ahead of CNOOC takeover
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Nexen Inc , whose $15.1 billion takeover by China's CNOOC Ltd is set to close this week, reported a fourth-quarter net loss on Monday as expectations for extended weakness in the North American natural gas market led to a multimillion-do llar asset impairment charge. CNOOC's takeover of Nexen gives it a portfolio of oil sands assets in Canada and other energy holdings around the world. The deal forced Ottawa to develop policies to balance increased investment by foreign state-owned companies with the desire to keep control of strategic oil sands reserves in Canada. … Lawyer told me to say I heard voices, Belgian killer tells court
GHENT, Belgium (Reuters) – A Belgian charged with stabbing two babies to death at a day-care centre stunned a court on Monday when he said it had been his lawyer’s idea to tell investigators he had been driven by voices in his head. Kim De Gelder, 24, who is also accused of killing a carer and an elderly woman a week before the nursery attack, admits the acts, leaving his trial to decide whether or not he is sane. “My lawyer wanted to get me committed. That’s why I kept saying that,” De Gelder said when asked by the judge whether there were voices in his head which commanded him to kill. …
Ikea withdraws meatballs in Europe, 21 nations hit
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe's widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat. Pippa Middleton to write cookery column for Waitrose
LONDON (Reuters) – Pippa Middleton, the sister of the Duchess of Cambrid ge, is to give cooking tips to the masses in a new column for supermarket chain Waitrose. Middleton, 29, will write a column for the upmarket chain's monthly magazine, Waitrose Kitchen, called "Pippa's Friday Night Feasts". Her foray into kitchen advice comes after she released a book called "Celebrate" last year, which was a guide to entertaining through the year and built on the experience she gained working for her family's party-planning business. … Cyprus remains stumbling block in Turkey's EU ambition: Merkel
ANKARA (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she was in favor of reviving Turkey's stalle d talks on its relationship with the European Union but a dispute over the divided island of Cyprus remained a stumbling block. Speaking during a two-day visit to Turkey, Merkel, who favors a "privileged partnership" for Turkey in place of full EU membership, said it would be right to open a new chapter in Ankara's negotiations with Brussels. … Pippa Middleton, columnist: Younger sister to Kate to write for grocery store magazine
LONDON – Pippa Middleton is making another foray into lifestyle writing.
U.N. told atheists face discrimination around globe
GENEVA (Reuter s) – Atheists, humanists and freethinkers face widespread discrimination around the world with expression of their views criminalized and subject in some countries to capital punishment, the United Nations was told on Monday. In a document for consideration by the world body's Human Rights Council, a global organization linking people who reject religion said atheism was banned by law in a number of states where people were forced to officially adopt a faith. … Diplomats: No Iran-UN nuke agency meeting planned
VIENNA (AP) -- Top Iranian officials coming to Vienna usually hold talks with the head of the U.N. nuclear agency. But diplomats say not this time, in a development that may reflect a deadlock on agency attempts to probe Tehran’s atomic work.
IKEA takes meatballs off Europe menus after horsemeat found
PRAGUE/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden's IKEA stopped nearly all sales of meatballs at its furniture store cafeterias across Europe after tests in the Czech Republic on Monday showed some contained horsemeat. The world's No. 1 furniture retailer, known also for the signature restaurants at its huge out-of-town stores, said it was pulling all meatballs produced by its main supplier in Sweden after the tests showed horsemeat in its beef and pork meatballs. … Complaints on U.S.-led Afghan troops to be checked, Kerry says
LONDON (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday complaints against Afghans working for U.S. special forces in Afghanistan would be investigated, a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered U.S. troops to leave a critical battleground province. Karzai's spokesman on Sunday said Karzai had decided that all U.S. special forces must leave Wardak Province within two weeks, after accusations that Afghans working for them had tortured and killed innocent people. … Islamists threaten to kill French kidnapped in Cameroon
DAKAR (Reuters) – Gunmen claiming to be from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group threatened on Monday to kill a kidnapped French family of seven if authorities in Nigeria and Cameroon do no t release Muslim militants held there. French ministers said they believed the three adults and four children seized in Cameroon's far north near the Nigerian border on Tuesday were being held by Boko Haram which has killed hundreds to try to carve out an Islamist state in Nigeria. … Two minor earthquakes jostle Haida Gwaii, cause no damage or tsunami
VANCOUVER – For the second day in a row, the Haida Gwaii region on B.C.’s northwest coast has been jostled by a minor earthquake.
Tesco says to close depot, relocate workers
LONDON (Reuters) – Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, plans to close a distribution centre near London where 800 people are employed. The firm said the depot in Harlow, northeast of the capital, was one of its distribution centres being closed following a strategic review . It said employees would be offered jobs at other Tesco sites or at two new distribution centres in the south of England where it would created 2,000 jobs. (Reporting by James Davey and Lorraine Turner; Editing by David Cowell) Libyan militia brings pay protest to minister's office
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A group of unarmed militiamen demanding better pay for guarding Libya' s borders barged into the prime minister's headquarters on Monday, but the man they'd come to see was away, an official said. Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was in Geneva to address the United Nations Human Rights Council when about 30 men forced their way into the government compound in central Tripoli, in the latest example of volatility plaguing the North African country. … Amid mounting pressures, some see potential for new Palestinian uprising
Less than a month before President Obama is to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah, raising hopes he will help bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the peace table, some see the West Bank heading in a very different direction.
Blast at Sufi shrine in Pakistan kills 2
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- A police official says a blast at a Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan has killed two people.
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