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By Ben Morris
As their home government beats down dissent in the country they love, two Venezuelan-Canadians join their family, friends, and countrymen to fight for freedom.
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By AFP
The family of Muktesh Mukherjee, a passenger on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, are praying that disaster has not struck twice.The 42-year-old's grandfather, a former Indian government minister, was killed in a plane crash on the outskirts o...
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By AFP
Sergiy Aksyonov, Crimea's new prime minister, is a shadowy businessman who prospered in the chaos of the post-Soviet era and now looks set to lead his region back into Russia's orbit.Nicknamed "The Goblin", the 41-year-old strongly denies allegations h...
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By Ken Hanly
Libyan authorities from the state oil firm NOC claim that the Libyan navy has seized a North Korean flagged oil tanker that had been illegally attempting to leave a port blockaded by rebels who have been trying to sell oil independently of the government.
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By AFP
Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut on Tuesday landed back on Earth in Kazakhstan after a stay of more than half a year aboard the International Space Station, mission control said.Russians Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky and NASA astronau...
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By AFP
Atletico Madrid are looking to book their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 1997 when they host AC Milan at the Vicente Calderon on Tuesday.The Spanish side hold a 1-0 advantage from the first leg three weeks ...
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By AFP
Oscar Pistorius's murder trial was on Tuesday set to hear more details on the autopsy of his slain girlfriend, a day after the star sprinter threw up as he listened to a graphic account of the gunshot injuries he inflicted on his lover.Forensic patholo...
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By Brett Wilkins
Nobel Peace laureate and former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu has raised eyebrows and ire by declaring his support for the boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) movement targeting Israeli "apartheid" and other crimes against the Palestinians.
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By AFP
Russia has refused to budge from its seemingly imminent annexation of Crimea, defying Western pressure at the UN Security Council, as Ukraine's ousted president prepared to make his first public appearance in more than a week Tuesday.As Kremlin-backed ...
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By AFP
Japan on Tuesday marks the third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster which swept away 18,000 victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked a nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power.Remembrance ceremonies will be held in tow...
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By AFP
Nearly three days after it disappeared while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, mystery still shrouds the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and the 239 people on board.No debris from the Boeing 777-200ER has been recovered despite an internati...
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By AFP
The Ukrainian flag has never really been embraced in Sevastopol and its famed port, home to Russia's Black Sea fleet since the time of the tsars.And as Moscow cements its control over Crimea, residents here say they are looking forward to the day when ...
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By AFP
Former Russian oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in prison in Russia, has applied for a residency permit in Switzerland, his spokesman told AFP on Monday."His application for residency was filed a while ago," said s...
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By AFP
African elephants can differentiate between human languages and move away from those considered a threat, a skill they have honed to survive in the wild, researchers said.The study suggests elephants, already known to be intelligent creatures, are even...
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By AFP
Several hundred doctors and medical students protested conditions in Venezuela's hospitals Monday, citing shortages of medicines and critical supplies in the troubled oil-rich country.As police held back the demonstrators in the city's Plaza Venezuela,...
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By AFP
Malaysia has dispatched ships to investigate the sighting of a floating object that could be a life raft, as it continues to hunt for a missing airliner, an official said Monday."There was a report today that we just received that an aircraft had seen ...
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By Justin King
Draft legislation has been approved by the Shi’ite led cabinet that defines girls as reaching puberty at age nine, thereby making them eligible for marriage. The proposal has received stiff opposition from secular groups within the country.
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By AFP
Novak Djokovic made it safely into the third round of the Indian Wells ATP Masters, but said his straight-sets win over Victor Hanescu left room for improvement.The world number two and second seed, a two-time winner in the California desert, on Sunday...
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By Ralph Lopez
An intercepted phone call between the Estonian Foreign Minister and the European Union foreign policy chief has been leaked, in which the Estonian Minister discusses the possibility of Ukrainian opposition groups being behind last month's sniper attacks.
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By AFP
Colombian voters showed lukewarm support for peace talks with guerrillas Sunday by giving President Juan Manuel Santos a majority in Congress but also electing his conservative rival, ex-president Alvaro Uribe, to the senate.Santos, who took office in ...
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By AFP
Boats and aircraft searching for traces of a Malaysian jet that vanished with 239 people on board homed in Monday on a remote Vietnamese island after possible debris was spotted floating nearby.
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By AFP
Diplomatic efforts to calm the Ukraine crisis inched forward Monday, with Moscow saying it would consider Western proposals for talks on the standoff but insisting Crimea had the right to secede.Britain said Russian President Vladimir Putin had promise...
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By Paula Kirman
March 8 was International Women's Day, which was marked with marches and events all over the world. In Edmonton, one of the IWD events was a march.
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By AFP
The cameraman who witnessed the death of Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin on Monday revealed a stingray stabbed at him "hundreds of times" and his final words were "I'm dying."The television personality and conservationist, who became world-fa...
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By AFP
North Korea's state media confirmed Monday what was never in doubt -- a 100 percent, no-abstention poll victory for leader Kim Jong-Un in the country's stage-managed parliamentary election.Every single vote cast on Sunday in Kim's constituency was for ...
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By AFP
The sudden disappearance Saturday of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 -- with no distress call or other signs of trouble -- has ignited intense speculation over what happened to the jet and its 239 passengers.Following are some of the scenarios being mul...
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By Justin King
Outgoing National Security Agency boss, Keith Alexander, advocated making it a crime to report on government leaks this week, and said that legislation to accomplish this was coming in weeks.
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By AFP
Hundreds of security forces could be deployed again to a notorious maze of slums in northern Rio, home to a major 2010 police action, after the death of three officers, officials said Sunday.
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By AFP
A Mexican drug lord said to have been killed more than three years ago was shot dead in a clash with authorities, officials said.A man who died in a shootout in western Michoacan state "has been identified as Nazario Moreno," also known as "El Chayo," ...
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By AFP
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has accused his players of complacency after their surprising 2-1 home FA Cup quarter-final defeat to holders Wigan.City's dreams of an unprecedented treble -- or at least a domestic treble -- were buoyed by co...
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By AFP
A group of nuns kidnapped by rebels in the Syrian town of Maalula in December were released early Monday thanks to Lebanese-Qatari mediation and handed to the Syrian authorities, an AFP journalist said.A monitoring group said the release was secured in...
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By AFP
The Israeli military said on Sunday it had found 40 rockets with a range of 160 kilometres (100 miles) aboard a ship allegedly transporting arms from Iran to the Gaza Strip.The army said it seized the Panamanian-flagged Klos-C on Wednesday and escorted...
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By Lonna Lisa Williams
Justin Bieber had his bodyguards carry him up the Great Wall of China, but this Digital Journalist climbed it herself only to find a Chinese grandmother already there, cane in hand.
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By AFP
Mystery surrounded the identity of two passengers who appear to have used stolen European passports to board a Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished carrying 239 people, as the search for the aircraft failed to yield a breakthrough Sunday.More than 30 ho...
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By AFP
The Kiev authorities should block the presidential bid of the leader of Pravy Sektor, or Right Sector, movement, Dmytro Yarosh, the Russian foreign ministry's rights envoy said Sunday."The de facto authorities in Kiev and their Western protectors must ...
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By AFP
Voters in El Salvador cast ballots on Sunday in a presidential run-off which was expected to crown the current vice president, a former guerrilla commander, as the country's new leader.Pre-election polls showed Salvador Sanchez Ceren from the Farabundo...
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By AFP
A top foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who spent a decade behind bars told thousands on Kiev's main protest square Sunday that the Kremlin colluded with Ukraine's ousted regime in violence claiming 100 lives."I was told what the authorities did ...
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By Ralph Lopez
The world must make a decision. Events in Ukraine, as Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says, are spinning “out of control.” A worrisome rise in Neo-Nazism has taken place in Ukraine.
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By AFP
Rallies were planned across Ukraine on Sunday as the troubled ex-Soviet state struggled to contain upheaval amid a standoff between Russia and the West over Crimea that shows no sign of easing.Sunday marks 200 years since the birth of Ukraine's nationa...
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By AFP
A far-right wing Indian party on Sunday publicly threw its support behind opposition Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi for prime minister ahead of next month's general elections.The firebrand head of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Raj Thackeray, s...
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By AFP
The Philippines also has the right to defend every inch of its territory, President Benigno Aquino's spokesman said on Sunday, after China made a similar warning.Spokesman Herminio Coloma's remarks came after China's foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sa...
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