By Lara Jakes And David Espo, The Associated Press
 
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Thursday to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre within a year and halt military trials of terror suspects held there, a senior administration official said.
The executive order was one of three expected imminently on how to [...]

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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Liberal Party, the largest opposition party in Canada’s parliament, has gained popular support under its new leader, Michael Ignatieff, according to a poll released by the Globe and Mail newspaper on Wednesday.
 
The Ekos/Globe and Mail poll shows a majority of Canadians hold a negative view of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, [...]

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WINNIPEG (CBC) - The last Israeli soldier was withdrawn from the Gaza Strip by dawn Wednesday, more than three weeks after Israel’s forces began a bruising offensive against Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory, Israeli military officials said.
 
Thousands of ground troops entered the coastal strip earlier in January as part of an offensive that began [...]

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BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
PARIS, Revered international statesman Nelson Mandela led a near-global welcome for new US President Barack Obama but China censored Obama’s inauguration speech to cut references to dissent.
World divisions over the United States were also shown in North Korea’s failure to tell its strictly controlled people about Obama’s accession. The foreign minister of [...]

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