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TAIPEI (AFP) - Thousands of slogan-chanting opposition demonstrators took to the streets of the Taiwanese capital in the second rally in a week protesting against President Chen Shui-bian. Protesters complained that the independence-leaning Chen is preoccupied with cross-strait matters and...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - On the eve of the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion, American troops clashed with gunmen north and west of Baghdad Sunday, and insurgents lobbed a mortar round into Karbala, the holy city south of Baghdad where a million Shiite pilgrims assembled for a major religious...

So I have finally done over 2,000 posts in my several month stay on Canadian content. And I think I will remain for another 2,000+ posts.

The War on Terrorism or "War on Terror" (in U.S. foreign policy circles, Global War on Terrorism or GWOT1; recently also Long War) is a controversial campaign by the United States government and some of its allies with the stated goal of ending international terrorism by stopping terrorist...

When a gasoline spill and fiery explosion killed three young people in Washington state, officials announced a record penalty against a gas pipeline company: $3 million to send the message that such tragedies "must never happen again." When nuclear labs around the country were found exposing...

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide are signaling they may delve deeply at his criminal trial into infighting among the White House, the CIA and the State Department over pre- Iraq war intelligence failures. ADVERTISEMENT In a prelude to a...

WATERTOWN, Wis. -- In an exercise that one side calls democracy and the other considers a disservice, voters in 30 Wisconsin towns will cast ballots next month on whether the Bush administration should withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. From Baraboo and Monona to Madison and La Crosse, antiwar...

Will socialism be defeated by America? With South America and China and some parts of Asia in the socialist mindset will America ever be able to stop socialism and have its corporate buddies rule over the working man? No I don't think so.

Maybe this wasn't such a bad thing, the United States gagging in the second round of the World Baseball Classic, going out with the style of a guy wearing white socks with Birkenstocks. Oh, it was that heinous. Vernon Wells' shattered-bat double-play ground ball gave Mexico a 2-1 victory...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060317/wl_nm/mideast_palestinians_dc_2;_ylt=AvAXes0KPVhcKv7EBjJvgUsUvioA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Several top Fatah officials have asked President Mahmoud Abbas to resign, dissolve the Palestinian Authority and return...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Rebels posing as security forces have killed 21 people on a highway in southeastern Iran, Iran's national police chief said Friday. Gen. Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam accused U.S. and British intelligence services of encouraging Iranian rebels to attack people, the official...

Maher Arar is calling on Stephen Harper to ensure the report of a public inquiry into his detention and torture in Syria won't be undermined by spurious claims of government secrecy. "The prime minister spoke about accountability" while he was in opposition, Arar said in an interview with The...

OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's net worth hit $4.5 trillion, or $137,000 a head, at the end of last year, Statistics Canada reports. National net worth grew 1.4 per in the fourth quarter, up sharply from 0.7 in the third. Third quarter growth was slowed by a marked increase in net foreign debt. Net...

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Thousands of weeping supporters of Slobodan Milosevic passed by the coffin of their late leader Friday, but it appeared increasingly unlikely that his widow would attend his funeral, fearing arrest if she returned from self-imposed exile in Russia. Members of...

Now who should people be more worried about. The radicals who follow this Ann Coutler person and radical Christian people and the Bush administration that has killed tons of people or Islamic radicals who have used suicide attacks to strike at Western world and kill innocent civilians in the...

EDMONTON (CP) - Carl Treleaven, a key member of an international child pornography ring, was to be sentenced Friday in a case that involves horrifying images of rape and abuse of children and infants. ADVERTISEMENT Treleaven, 49, was actually online when Edmonton police raided his home on...

UNITED NATIONS - Iraq is in the throes of "vicious, sectarian conflict" but U.S. and Iraqi forces will not allow it to escalate to civil war, the top U.N. envoy in Iraq said Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT Ashraf Qazi said bloodshed has intensified since bombers destroyed the golden dome of a...

WASHINGTON - A former flight attendant who finished law school at 36, Carla Martin seemed to be at a pinnacle of success when it all came crashing down this week. ADVERTISEMENT She earned a six-figure salary. She traveled extensively. And she played an important role in a courtroom drama...

http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/index.jsp That means the inaugural World Baseball Classic Championship will either go to Dominican Republic Cuba Japan or Korea

Now Last Night it was a bit testy between some people and it seemed to get nasty at times, but it was interesting none the less. So did last night take the energy out of everyone or are they just tired? Or am I the only guy on here and i am in the Twilight Zone?