By Lisa Lambert
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration is not discussing a second stimulus plan to jolt the U.S. economy out of recession, a White House budget official told Congress on Wednesday.
“No one in the administration is talking about a second stimulus at this point,” said Robert Nabors, deputy director of the Office [...]

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OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper accepted and ate a communion wafer at a Catholic mass and didn’t pocket it as critics have alleged, according to his spokesman.
 
Harper, a devout Protestant, attended last week’s state funeral for Canada’s former governor general, Romeo LeBlanc, during which a Catholic priest offered him a communion host.
Television [...]

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By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer
URUMQI, China – Thousands of Chinese troops flooded into this city Wednesday to separate feuding ethnic groups after three days of communal violence left 156 people dead, and a senior Communist Party official vowed to execute those guilty of murder in the rioting in western China.
Long convoys of armored cars [...]

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I am ready to face the ICC, declares Raila
 
Prime Minister Raila Odinga addresses a past press conference. Mr Odinga said he had no problem explaining to the ICC whatever it wanted to know about the post-election violence.
By Lucas Barasa
In Summary
Premier backs local tribunal, but says he is ready if called by international court
Prime Minister Raila [...]

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By Jim Hnatiuk - Leader of the Christian Heritage Party
In this world of much unrest, with riots in Iran, Honduras and now China, Canada must choose wisely when to speak out and to whom we give our support. Recently our Canadian Government decided to throw its support behind the reinstatement of the Honduran President Jose [...]

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