BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
 
OTTAWA, - The Canadian government Wednesday called on countries that have banned the import of pigs and pork products to reverse the move, urging them to “base their decisions on sound science.”
Some countries “have imposed a ban on North American pork and swine (live hog) products, without scientifically justifiable evidence to support their [...]

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By Nancy Benac, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Oh, Joe.
Vice-President Joe Biden - with a well-deserved reputation as someone who shoots from the lip - made it through the first 100 days of the Obama administration without any major gaffes. But on Day 101 the vice-president, well, [...]

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By Hed Is 44 Characters Cynthia Boll, The Associated Press
 
APELDOORN, Netherlands - A Dutch driver careened through police barriers and plowed into a crowd of merrymakers cheering their popular queen Thursday, in a premeditated assault on the royal family that killed four bystanders and injured 13 others, authorities said.
The speeding car, already dented apparently from [...]

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 Arnie Stapleton, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER - With a little help from the hometown kid, Carmelo Anthony is finally moving on.
Behind Anthony’s 34 points and the floor leadership of Chauncey Billups, the Denver native who came home this season and galvanized a city and a team, the Nuggets advanced to the second round of the NBA [...]

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                                                                               By Zeeshan Haider
BUNER VALLEY, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistan army battled through mountain passes on Thursday in a third day of fighting to evict Taliban fighters from a strategic valley, after U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed its newfound resolve.
The militants were still controlling parts of Buner valley, just 100 km (60 miles) northwest of [...]

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By Njeri Wangari
The news of Bantu Mwaura’s death have caught many with absolute shock.
Bantu Mwaura, an award winning Kenyan performing artist, director, playwright, storyteller, poet and university lecturer is dead.
He was found dead outside his gate at the Sunlight estate in Nairobi’s Lang’ata area, on Monday (today) morning. His family had reported him missing [...]

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BY BERNARD MOMANYI and LABAN WANAMBISI
 – A call by women activists for a nationwide seven-day sex boycott has drawn sharp reactions, with a men lobby group terming it a violation of men’s fundamental rights.
The Maendeleo Ya Wanaume group criticised the lobbyists for turning sex into a political bargaining tool, saying it was morally wrong.
“Just imagine [...]

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ARNOLD, Missouri (CNN) — On his 100th day in office, President Obama said Wednesday that he was “pleased with the progress we’ve made but not satisfied.”
“I’ve come back to report to you, the American people, that we have begun to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off, and we’ve begun the work of remaking America,” [...]

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GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) — The World Health Organization on Wednesday raised its pandemic alert to 5, its second-highest level, warning of widespread human infection from the swine flu outbreak that originated in Mexico.
Dr. Margaret Chan, the U.N. agency’s director-general, said the decision to raise the alert on the 6-point scale indicated that all countries should [...]

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By The Canadian Press
 
The number of Canadian swine flu cases moved up to 19 with the confirmation of six new cases, three each in Ontario and British Columbia.
And while the majority of the cases across the country involved people who recently travelled to Mexico, both Ontario and B.C. had one case each where the travel [...]

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