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  • Apparently frightened but healthy, the Canadians among members of a Christian peacemaking group held by insurgents in Iraq appear in a new video threatening their death if demands aren't met. In the video broadcast first on Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera Friday, the group claiming to have taken the four humanitarian workers hostage demands the release of all prisoners in U.S. and Iraqi detention centres.CTV News

  • A senior al Qaeda commander, Abu Hamza Rabia, has died in an explosion in a home in the North Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan, Pakistani officials said Saturday. The November 30 explosion killed "five miscreants, including three foreigners," one of which was Rabia, Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao told CNN.CNN

  • At least 11 Iraqi soldiers were killed and two others wounded Saturday in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad. Insurgents reportedly ambushed the unit near Adhaim, about 100 kilometres north of Baghdad. The bomb was followed by small-arms fire.CTV News

  • Four more cities in northeastern China were preparing to suspend running water after a major chemical spill last month, officials said Saturday. Tangyuan, Huachuan, Fujin and Tongjiang were expecting the slick of benzene to arrive in the next few days.CBC News

  • An Indonesian woman who died earlier in the week has been confirmed by World Health Organization tests as being the country's eighth bird flu fatality. A health ministry official said tests conducted at a laboratory in Hong Kong show the 25-year-old woman died of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza virus.CBC News

  • George Best was to be buried on Saturday following a massive funeral that brought his native Belfast to a standstill. Tens of thousands of mourners applauded as the hearse carrying the body of the Manchester United star traveled along the three-mile route from his family home to Stormont, the grand center of government.Globe And Mail

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