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Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed his mind on the national anthem.
It’s just fine the way it is.
Two days after Harper, in the speech from the throne, said his government would review the wording of the English version of O Canada, with an eye toward making it “gender neutral,” the idea was abruptly shelved.
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Russia Holds Black Sea Military Drills ‘Under NATO’s Watchful Eye’
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NOVOROSSIISK — The Russian Black Sea Fleet practiced an amphibious landing of troops on the coast of Abkhazia as a nearby NATO vessel observed, a Russian Navy source said on Wednesday.
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Guatemala
Guatemala’s attorney general says authorities have detained the national police chief and the country’s anti-drug czar in a case of stolen cocaine that led to the deaths of five police agents.
Attorney General Amilcar Velasquez says national police chief Baltazar Gonzalez and anti-drug czar Nelly Bonilla and a third, unidentified official were being held for their [...]
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Spain: Investigating the Crimes of Franco Dictatorship
Fascist Falange Allowed to Join Prosecution of Judge Baltazar Garzón
Vicky Short/Global Research/ World Socialist Web Site
The Spanish Supreme Court has allowed the fascist party, the Falange, to join a private prosecution brought against Judge Baltazar Garzón because of his attempts to investigate the crimes of the Franco dictatorship. The Falange, which was the sole political [...]
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Teh Interwebs
It’s the bane of Web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern Websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of web surfers still using it?
Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser-a decade-old dinosaur [...]
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Chile
Rescuers searched for survivors Sunday a day after one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history rocked Chile, killing more than 700 people while leaving untold numbers missing and 2 million displaced, wounded or otherwise affected.
The death toll jumped Sunday to 708, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said, nearly doubling as rescue crews reached remote and [...]
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Drug Trafficking to Russia Transits through Georgia
Global Research/Itar Tass
MOSCOW — The territory of Georgia has been turning into one of powerful ways of drug trafficking to Russia, leader of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS) Viktor Ivanov said at a meeting of its collegium on Saturday.
“The key directions of drug trafficking go through the area of water of the Black [...]
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Pacific Region
Tsunami warning cancelled: Expert says Hawaii ‘dodged a bullet’
Initial predictions may have overestimated tsunami size
Experts say tsunami becoming more powerful as it hits
Chile
Chileans fearful of aftershocks camped outside on Sunday as rescuers battled to find survivors of a huge earthquake that shattered roads and airports and triggered a tsunami across the Pacific.
One of the [...]
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Israel distributes new gas masks to civilians: army
Staff Writers, Jerusalem (AFP)/Spacewar
Israel on Sunday began distributing new gas masks for civilians to use in a possible chemical or biological attack, the army said.
“The civil defence has asked the Israeli postal service to begin distributing gas masks on an experimental basis to the residents of Or Yehuda,” a military spokesman told AFP, referring to [...]
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