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Associated Press: World: Canada

22 hours, 42 minutes ago

(AP) A court ordered Canada's refugee board Friday to take another look at a U.S. Army deserter's failed bid for asylum in a ruling that could affect scores of other American soldiers who have refused to fight in Iraq.Canada's Federal Court found that the Immigration and Refugee Board made mistakes in ...

Canada to rehear US Army deserter's asylum bid

1 day, 1 hour ago

French-speaking Quebec City celebrates 400th B-day

1 day, 22 hours ago

(AP) Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday that Quebec City is the country's most beautiful city as he and other dignitaries celebrated the historic town's 400th birthday.Harper said there's a saying where he comes from that "you must have two cities in your heart: your own and Quebec City because ...

French-speaking Quebec City celebrates 400th B-day

2 days, 9 hours ago

SKorean auto workers strike over US beef imports

2 days, 22 hours ago

(AP) Tens of thousands of auto workers in South Korea went on strike Wednesday to oppose the government's lifting of a ban on U.S. beef imports.Partial walkouts at Kia Motors Corp. and South Korea's largest carmaker, Hyundai Motor Co., were the centerpiece of a one-day strike by the Korean Confederation of ...

SKorean auto workers strike over US beef imports

3 days, 22 hours ago

12 million bees released on Canadian highway

3 days, 22 hours ago

(AP) Some 12 million honey bees were released along Canada's largest highway on Monday after a truck transporting them overturned, police said.Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the truck carrying 330 crates of bees was traveling on a ramp when the load shifted and the truck overturned.A downpour of rain helped to ...

12 million bees released on Canadian highway

4 days, 22 hours ago

12 million bees released on Canadian highway

5 days, 13 hours ago

Malaysia's Anwar accused of sodomy again

5 days, 22 hours ago

(AP) Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took refuge at the Turkish Embassy on Sunday after police began probing an allegation that he sodomized his male aide, reprising a sex scandal that led to his imprisonment a decade ago.Anwar, 60, dismissed the accusation, made in a police complaint filed by the 23-year-old ...

Murder charge for brother whose sister shed scarf

6 days, 22 hours ago

(AP) The brother of a Canadian teenager who was slain in what friends described as a family dispute over a Muslim head scarf was charged with murder, becoming the second family member accused in her death, police said Friday.Aqsa Parvez, 16, of Pakistani origin, was strangled in December at her Mississauga, ...

Murder charge for brother whose sister shed scarf

7 days, 22 hours ago

Murder charge for brother whose sister shed scarf

8 days, 2 hours ago

Lawyer: Khadr video to be released

8 days, 22 hours ago

(AP) A lawyer for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday that he expects to release a video of his client being interrogated by Canadian officials visiting the U.S. prison.Nathan Whitling's announcement comes a day after Canada's Federal Court ordered the government to hand over the 2003 interrogation video of terrorism ...

Lawyer: Khadr video to be released

9 days, 5 hours ago

(AP) A lawyer for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday that he expects to release a video of his client being interrogated by Canadian officials.Nathan Whitling's announcement comes a day after Canada's Federal Court ordered the government to hand over the 2003 interrogation video of terrorism suspect Omar Khadr to ...