The highlighted material and the rest of the article may be a few days old, but the context provides crucial information to understand the on-going conflict in many parts of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. "U.S. ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney was in...
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Canada's Conservative party is mobilizing an array of swear-wordish phrases to scorn Stephane Dion's new carbon tax plan. The Liberal Leader played right into enemy hands by labeling his plan the "green-shift.""...
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"OTTAWA -- Canada has withdrawn its support for a U.N. anti-racism conference scheduled to take place in South Africa next year after deeming it to be anti-Israel, a government official said Wednesday.
The so-called Durban II conference "has gone completely off the rails" and...
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I had never heard of this before! There isn't very much information at all here about why - I will need to brush up on First World War history...provided this is in there!"The federal government has acknowledged it has a legal responsibility to make right on a pledge to...
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The United States Monday expressed concern over the spate of
extrajudicial killings in the Philippines and called for the
prosecution of those involved.US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney made the call as
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, whose administration has...
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"The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran has waged a 20-year armed campaign to overthrow the ayatollahs. Conservative Foreign Affairs critic Stockwell Day said the group, also known as MEK, has confined its attacks to military and regime targets and that Public Security...
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"Meanwhile, Conservative government spokesman Jason Kenney compared Hezbollah to the German Nazi party yesterday and said Canadian opposition MPs are providing political cover to the banned organization. This is funny coming from the guy who defended Franco and Hitler in the...
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