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A sophisticated piece of malware believed to have been created by a government to obtain confidential information has been detected. The bug, known as Regin, is believed to have been created in 2008 to spy on individuals, businesses and rival government organisations, according to...

The French far right’s cosiness with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is back in the spotlight as Marine Le Pen’s party confirms it borrowed nine million euros from a Russian lender, saying “no one else will give us a cent”. France’s far-right National Front (FN) said Sunday it had borrowed the money...

Indeed, why should ordinary Americans care about the rampant corruption, extrajudicial violence and culture of impunity that has overtaken Mexico in the eight years since then-President Felipe Calderón declared war on the drug cartels? Why should they care about 100,000 dead and at least 20,000...

Quebec is putting an end to the universal fee structure for its publicly funded daycare system. The government will now have parents pay on a sliding scale according to their household income. The current rate of $7.30 a day per child will remain in effect, but when families prepare their...

SPOILER ALERT: CLICK HERE TO TRY THE SURVEY BEFORE READING BELOW ABOUT THE OVERALL RESULTS. Read this after the survey.......... ‘Cloud of misperception’: Canadians don’t know their country as well as they think, online survey finds | National Post

John Smid was executive director of Love in Action for 18 years The former head of a group that claimed it could stop people being attracted to those of the same sex has married his male partner. John Smid, executive director of the ‘Love in Action’ group from 1990 to 2008, said he had...

A former member of a Conservative riding association in southern Ontario has struck a compliance agreement with Elections Canada after he tried to cast two votes in the last federal election. A notice published Friday on the Canada Gazette website says Bryan Vanderkruk admits to requesting a...

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico issued a security message Friday warning U.S. citizens to avoid the Pacific resort of Acapulco because of violence and protests. In yet another blow to a coastal city once favored by U.S. movie stars and jet-setters in the 1950s and '60s, the embassy said its...

Conley was found guilty in August, along with his brother, Nicholas, of torturing their mother's pit bull after it had bitten Conley's 13-year-old son. According to testimony, the dog was hung from the roof of a house, stabbed multiple times and placed in a shallow hole attached by a chain to a...

Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Wednesday for deeper ties with North Korea to improve regional security, a day after holding talks with a personal envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Senior North Korean officials visit Moscow infrequently but the isolated country is trying...

Dr Raslan Fadl and father of girl who died during the procedure have been acquitted, dashing hopes for a nationwide crackdown. Raslan Fadl, a doctor and Islamic preacher in the village of Agga, northern Egypt, was acquitted of mutilating Sohair al-Bata’a in June 2013. The 12-year-old died...

Jerry Lee Brock, 55, had been in prison since his conviction for first-degree molestation in 1995. In 2012, the alleged victim, Regina Rush, came forward to say she made the whole thing up, partly as a way to get more attention from her mother. Last week, Thurston County Superior Court Judge...

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I'll never forget the first time I heard a commercial for a '84 month car loan'. I was in the local Home Hardware and they had a radio station playing over the speaker system. At some point there was a commercial and the part I caught was '84 month loan'. I stopped and listened and they...

West Coast Native News | On First Nation Issues, Events, And Environmental Issues On The West Coast And World Events. Over the past year WCNN has reported on many Crude oil and Toxic produced water spills all over Alberta, in fact we have reported over 600,000 Litres of toxic crap that has...

On the morning of Oct. 7, two days before the Blue Jackets opened the 2014-15 season, Jack Johnson left his Ferrari parked in the garage of his Dublin apartment and drove his BMW to a federal courthouse Downtown to file for bankruptcy. Johnson has earned more than $18 million during his...

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27-year-old "self made millionaire" admits that his wealth was actually inherited from his parents We came across Ivanov’s story first in an article he wrote for a well-regarded personal finance blog. He had written a couple of other guest posts on other blogs, but no major publication had...

Can provincial legislation protect the state and "block an individual from seeking a remedy for breach" of her fundamental rights and freedoms under the nation's Charter of Rights? That's the question that lawyers representing Alberta oil patch consultant Jessica Ernst have now posed to the...

The driver of a tractor trailer has been arrested for allegedly falling asleep at the wheel and causing a "horrific" crash that killed two people and injured nine others on Route 222 in Berks County early Wednesday morning. The trucker, identified as Steven Bernier, 50, of Reading, has been...