By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press
 
WASHINGTON - He’s been seen cradling it and gazing upon it almost as frequently as he’s cooed at babies and promised to bring change to Washington.
Barack Obama has a deep and abiding affection for his made-in-Canada BlackBerry, and yet the gods are conspiring against him - despite his best efforts, [...]

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 By Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - The NDP is warning the Liberals they likely have at most a few months to defeat the minority Conservative government and replace it with a coalition that would make Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff prime minister.
And MP Thomas Mulcair, the NDP finance critic, held out a veiled threat to [...]

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi
 
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel’s senior general said more work lay ahead in the 18-day offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and Israeli tanks and troops edged closer to the heart of the city of Gaza.
The Palestinian death toll rose to 971, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry said, counting some 400 women [...]

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By Standard Team
Secondary school and college teachers are laughing all the way to the bank following a salary agreement between their union and the Government.
Members of the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) yesterday received a salary increase of between 42 and 167 per cent in the Sh17.3 billion pay offer to be paid [...]

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