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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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Haiti
Canadian military personnel retrieved a group of stranded B.C. teens and their chaperones from a remote town outside Port-au-Prince on Sunday morning.A military helicopter picked up two adults who needed medical attention from the Grand Goave compound they were staying at, flying them to the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince.Military personnel then went to the site [...]
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Serbia
Bosnian police have arrested a former Bosnian Serb policeman suspected of genocide committed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Prosecutors say Goran Markovic was arrested in the northeastern town of Bijeljina on Friday morning. The 46-year-old is suspected of committing genocide when he was the wartime commander of a Bosnian Serb police unit that took part [...]
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US and Russia
Top Russian [deputy foreign minister Sergei Riabkov] and US [undersecretary of state Ellen Tauscher] officials held talks in Moscow Monday dealing with the expired START nuclear weapons treaty, and a new deal could be reached by December 18, according to a Russian newspaper.
US and South Korea
A US envoy [Stephen Bosworth] Monday stressed unity [...]
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China and US
Chinese spies are aggressively stealing secrets to build up China’s military and economic power, a US advisory panel on US-China relations has warned. The report was published in the same week that US President Barack Obama made his first official visit to China. A Chinese embassy spokesman in Washington dismissed the allegations as [...]
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Palestine
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will accept the recommendation of independent election experts on Thursday to postpone the vote he had scheduled for January, senior officials said. The Central Election Commission said it had advised Abbas to put off the election since the rival Hamas Islamist group ruling some 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip [...]
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Koreas
North and South Korean naval forces exchanged fire in disputed waters off their west coast Tuesday, the first such incident in seven years. No South Korean casualties were reported, but the North Korean ship was badly damaged during the skirmish. Each navy is blaming the other for the incident, which analysts believe will heighten tensions [...]
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US: Anthrax
Firedoglake: Steven Aftergood has just published Robert Mueller’s responses to questions for the record he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring. Chuck Grassley asked Mueller several questions about the anthrax investigation. (The questions start on page 42 of these QFRs.) Mueller’s answers make it clear the FBI was–and is still–trying to cover [...]
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Kissinger admitted to hospital with virus