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JERUSALEM - Israel's March 28 election has all the makings of high drama: party splits, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's devastating stroke, Islamic militants ruling in the Palestinian territories. ADVERTISEMENT So why, in a country of high emotions and loud opinions, has the campaign...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran threatened Saturday to use oil as a weapon if the UN Security Council imposes sanctions over its nuclear program. The country's interior minister raised the possibility of using Iran's own oil and gas supplies and its position on a vital Persian Gulf oil route as...

WASHINGTON (CP) - Oh sure, you hear about how everyone plays hockey in Canada, gets to the rink by dogsled and then goes home to an igloo. But many myths about Canadians that circulate in the United States aren't nearly so silly or harmless. Perceptions that Canada is soft on immigration...

JAYYUS, West Bank (AP) - Palestinians throughout the West Bank expressed sorrow Saturday over the killing of American Tom Fox, 54, who had travelled to the West Bank to protest for their cause before he was taken hostage in Iraq. Fox's body was found shot in the head and chest Thursday near a...

WASHINGTON (CP) - An American who was among four Christian activists kidnapped last year in Iraq has been killed, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Friday. The FBI verified a body found in Iraq on Friday morning was that of Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va., spokesman Noel Clay said. He...

Now it appears from the Port deal, that it is okay for America to put interests in other foreign nations and do whatever they want in the name of free-trade, but this is the second time that the Americans have rejected foreign investment in their country. They cannot and do not deserve to have...

Majority of provinces crying wolf when it comes to finances, Flaherty says -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 18:19 on March 9, 2006, EST. By TARA BRAUTIGAM WHITBY, Ont. (CP) - The majority of the provinces are in better financial shape than...

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. (CP) - Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice has reaffirmed the new Conservative government's commitment to the objectives of the Kelowna Accord to end aboriginal poverty. But he's giving no hint on how much of the $5.1 billion the Liberals promised when they signed the...

PHOENIX (AP) -- Adam Stern hit .133 in 36 games for the Boston Red Sox in an injury-plagued 2005 season. Adam Loewen spent all of last year at Class A Frederick in the a Baltimore organization. On a brisk Wednesday afternoon, they outshone the Jeters and A-Rods of Team USA, leading Canada to...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Bud Selig wants to read the book before making any decisions about Barry Bonds. On a day when Bonds was in California for a child custody hearing, baseball kept buzzing about him Wednesday -- specifically, about an upcoming book that describes in vivid detail the...

OTTAWA (CP) - The prime minister's refusal to co-operate with an ethics investigation into the David Emerson floor-crossing violates the law and sets a dangerous precedent, a Liberal MP charged Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT Wayne Easter, a former Liberal cabinet minister, said Harper's fight with...

WHITBY, Ont. (CP) - The federal finance minister says Ottawa won't be able to address all its election promises in its first budget. ADVERTISEMENT But Jim Flaherty says the Conservatives will slash the GST by one per cent "immediately." Flaherty is expected to deliver his federal budget in...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The two brothers were helping out in their dad's welding shop when an Israeli missile slammed into an ice cream truck carrying Islamic Jihad gunmen. Two militants were killed, but so were the boys. ADVERTISEMENT The tragic results of the airstrike, which killed a...

In the world Baseball Classic, Cuba was able to get by Panama 8-6 but it was almost an upset, but now Canada is leading America 8-2 in the bottom of the 5th.

Now with Afghanistan and Iraq, America is having a difficult time shutting down the insurgencies. If they believe they will try to attack Iran or North Korea, it will be lights out for America. Why, First with 140,000 troops in Iraq and 20,000 roughly in Afghanistan they are stretched thin...

OTTAWA (CP) - A defiant federal ethics commissioner vowed to stay on the job Tuesday even as Stephen Harper admitted he tried to replace him immediately after he became prime minister. Bernard Shapiro's decision to investigate Harper's recruitment of former Liberal cabinet minister David...

So I think this is great. I think America is too self confident, and they will win it in the First round but either lose in the Semis or in the Quarterfinals. I think the team that will win will be Puerto Rico or Japan.

Hamas PM-designate not immune from targeted killing: Israeli defence minister -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 8:09 on March 7, 2006, EST. By AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Tuesday that his Kadima...

BAGHDAD (CP) - Al-Jazeera television on Tuesday broadcast a brief and silent videotape showing three of four hostage Christian activists kidnapped in Iraq, and said that the men asked their governments and countries in the Persian Gulf to work for their release. The two Canadian hostages -...

The United Nations food agency will run out of the supplies it needs to keep 3.5 million drought-stricken Kenyans alive because it has received just over a tenth of the required funding, officials said yesterday. The situation in El Wak and other parts of Kenya was 'as bad as it gets', said...