"TORONTO (CP) - Toronto-born freelance photojournalist Rita Leistner was covering the siege of Najaf, Iraq, in the summer of 2004 when she and three other independent photographers in the region, one of them a defector from Saddam Hussein's army, realized their work wasn't...
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"Reuters - A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman
angrily denied on Thursday that the country turns a blind eye
to human rights abuses in places like Sudan in its search for
oil to help power a booming economy."
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"Canadian Press - MEDICINE HAT, Alberta (CP) - Police say more charges could be laid in a triple homicide in which a 12-year-old girl and her boyfriend are accused of killing a couple and their son."
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"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - A Quebec woman who shot and killed her abusive husband while in a trance-like state and was then acquitted of murder will not face a new trial."
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"Canadian Press - WASHINGTON (CP) - The powerful U.S. lumber industry group that's led the charge against Canadian softwood lumber imports says it will accept a framework deal hammered out by the two countries in a bid to solve the bitter trade dispute."
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"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Human rights groups are calling on the federal government to reconsider its practice of holding terrorist suspects indefinitely without charge."
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"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - A global hunger for Canadian resources, coupled with strong domestic demand, is fuelling robust growth that may require higher interest rates to cool down the economy, says the Bank of Canada."
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"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper was working the phones in an effort to reach a softwood lumber agreement Thursday while his opponents accused him of selling out to the Americans."
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"Canadian Press - EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta will negotiate a new agreement for Metis hunting and fishing rights to replace a highly controversial interim deal reached two years ago."
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"A career criminal instrumental in last month's arrest of several alleged gang members will be paid $350,000 and given a new identity for his role in infiltrating Manitoba's Hells Angels, according to court documents."A defence lawyer representing some of the accused says the...
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"Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - A 56-year-old B.C. man has been freed from a California military jail after being arrested for deserting the U.S. Marines in 1968."
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