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Defending Rights Record
It may not go down as the first Canadian writ dropped in Beijing but Prime Minister Paul Martin appeared to throw down the electoral gauntlet Friday night with...
Bush At Prayer Service
President Bush is attending the National Prayer Service on Friday, after a whirlwind Inauguration Day on which he outlined a U.S. policy "with the ultimate goal...
Bush Seeks Unity In US
In a city brimming with pageantry under fortress-like security, President George W. Bush looked ahead Wednesday to his second inauguration, pledging to seek...
Tsunami Death Toll Raised
Indonesian health officials Wednesday raised their estimate of the number of people killed in last month's tsunami by 70,000, although the sharp increase in the...
Rice: Diplomacy Now
If she were to become the next U.S. secretary of state – and all indications are she will – Condoleezza Rice said she would try to mend relationships with...
Iraq: Bush""s Vietnam
Senator Edward M. Kennedy said yesterday that President Bush's Iraq policy is ''ridiculous" and disputed Bush's statement that the 2004 reelection validated the...
Attack On Aid Workers?
Denmark has issued a warning of a possible attack on international rescue workers in Indonesia's Aceh province. The Danish Foreign Ministry says it received...
Tsunami Deaths Top 162,000
The tsunami death toll has surpassed 162,000 as Indonesia increased its toll by 5,000 on Sunday. The additional deaths were reported from the village of Calang,...
Boy Survives Tsunami
A seven-year-old Indonesian boy who was swept away by the tsunami waters on Dec. 26 was reunited with his family in Aceh province on Saturday . A British...
New Palestinian Leader
Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in as Palestinian Authority president on Saturday, a day after a major setback in relations with Israel. Israel said it was freezing all...
Huygens Lands On Titan
After a seven-year trip, the Huygens space probe has successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan, jubilant mission control staff in Europe said Friday. Huygens's...
Tsunami Video Pirate
A sidewalk vendor in Phuket was arrested Thursday for selling CD's showing pirated video footage of the Dec. 26 tsunami that killed about 5,300 people in...
Prince Harry In Nazi Uniform
Britain's Prince Harry was being encouraged to make a public apology and visit the Auschwitz death camp after he was photographed wearing a Nazi uniform at a...
Fires Cover Lots Of Ground
Another country across the ocean is recuperating from tragedy. The Eyre Peninsula in South Australia is coping with a blaze that officials called the deadliest...
Orlando Plane Crash
A single-engine Cessna crash Wednesday has claimed the life of one man and put another in hospital.The plane had been attempting an emergency landing in a golf...
Mudslide Claims More
Rescue crews early today pulled three small bodies from the debris of a mudslide in La Conchita, California, bringing the death toll from Monday's disaster to...
Deadly California Mudslides
Rescue crews resumed digging Tuesday in their search for as many as 22 people who may be trappedin Southern California mudslides that have already claimed three...
Palestinian President Elected
Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian Authority president by a landslide, results showed Monday, giving the pragmatist a mandate to resume peace talks with...
Dart In Sri Lanka
The first jet carrying equipment and members for Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team, or DART, landed in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Saturday. DART's primary...
VIP Visits Slow Aid
Relief workers say a flood of foreign dignitaries is clogging the airport in Indonesia's Aceh province and slowing the distribution of aid to tsunami victims. ...