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More than two dozen UN personnel were killed in 2005 – Staff Union New York staffers march in memory of slain colleagues 5 January – Fatal attacks against United Nations civilian and military personnel stationed around the globe more than doubled last year compared to 2004 as 32 people were...

This is the same people who are healing after the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Ogoni: Remarks on Reconciliation by Ledum Mitee President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Ledum Mitee has warned that the ongoing reconciliation efforts by the Federal Government between Ogoni...

Just for a little background to Hugh Johnson Jr. So it is kind of interesting to see that Major. Colin Powell was the prosecutor to investigate the abuses in the letter and stumbled onto My Lai massacre.

Hugh C. Thompson, Jr. (April 15, 1943 – January 6, 2006) was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He is chiefly known for his role in stopping the My Lai Massacre, during which he was flying a reconnaissance mission. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Thompson joined the US Navy in 1961, then US...

Without Cuba, the World Baseball Classic, that highly charged and already highly politicized 16-team tournament scheduled for its debut in March, likely won't ever get to a "Play Ball!" The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) is threatening to pull its sanctioning of Major League...

SES Research January 06 Liberal:32 Conservative: 35 NDP: 17 BLOC: 10 Green: 6 The Liberals and the Conservatives seem to fluxuate a point here and there every poll remaining around 32-33 for the Libs, and around about 36 for the CONs. The NDP is still strong at 17% Ekos January 05 Lib...

OTTAWA (CP) - A Conservative government would reverse Liberal tax cuts for low-and middle-income earners passed just before the election was called as part of a broad tax plan that would substantially reduce taxes for everyone, leader Stephen Harper said Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT "We have a...

Definition of Ethnic Group: The term ethnic means of or pertaining to a group of people recognized as a class on the basis of certain distinctive characteristics such as religion, language, ancestry, culture or national origin. Now, I am a follower of Asatru or Heathenism an old Germanic...

WASHINGTON - In an ominous election-year sign for Republicans, Americans are leaning sharply toward wanting Democrats to take control of Congress, an AP-Ipsos poll finds. Democrats are favored 49 percent to 36 percent. ADVERTISEMENT The poll was taken this week as Republican lobbyist Jack...

BOLTON, ONT — Conservative Leader Stephen Harper defended his child-care plan today, reiterating that he believes it can produce 125,000 day care spaces over five years by offering $250 million in tax credits to employers and community groups to build them. The plan was announced last month...

Vancouver — NDP Leader Jack Layton is proposing to spend $1-billion over several years fighting crime in a bid to boost the party's credibility on law and order, an issue that has rocketed to the top of the election agenda after shootings in Toronto. The NDP was the fourth largest party in...

Liberal Leader Paul Martin announced a series of new programs for the elderly and the disabled Friday, including a plan to give two months of EI benefits to people who take time off to care for sick or disabled relatives. Mr. Martin's programs include a new registered disabilities savings plan...

SES Research January 04: Liberal: 33 Conservative: 35 NDP: 15 BLOC: 12 Green: 5 Ekos January 04: Liberal: 30.4 Conservative: 36.2 NDP: 17.9 BLOC: 10.4 Green: 4.7 Seat Projection: Ekos January 04: Lib: 86 Con: 133 NDP: 35 Bloc: 53 Other: 1...

Winnipeg — NDP Leader Jack Layton took his message back to health care, proposing a fund to train more medical professionals and promising to prevent using federal cash for private insurance. The NDP leader said his party would lobby for legislation to stop federal money from being funneled to...

A Conservative government would undertake a sweeping series of reforms aimed at toughening Canada's justice system, starting with imposition of mandatory minimum prison terms of between five and 10 years for people convicted of major firearms offences, Stephen Harper said today. "We should be...

I truly believe that Mike Harris or someone within his cabinet and the OPP of the time during the murder of Dudley George and that is what it is, when the OPP murdered Dudley George should be charged with murder or an accomplice to murder or something. Shows what a red-neck, conservative at its...

On CTV Mike Duffy Live, they broke out with information that Jack Layton on the plane ride to Winnipeg mused to media outlets that conservatives are intent on breaking up Quebec and by working a budget with the Bloc. (Note Conservative guy who wrote for Alberta seperation, and the Reform Party...

Harper's immigration agency may run into jurisdictional squabbles: experts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 16:12 on January 4, 2006, EST. By DONALD MCKENZIE OTTAWA (CP) - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is promising to make it easier...

SES Research January 03: Lib: 33 Conservative: 36 NDP: 15 Bloc: 13 Green: 4 Seat Projection: Lib:95 Con: 131 NDP: 19 BLOC: 62 Other: 1 Wasn't this basically the same NDP, Liberal, Conservative numbers in the last election just reverse...

A three-week silence in the case of four Western humanitarian workers kidnapped in Iraq may not be a bad sign, a terrorism expert said Wednesday. Paul Buchanan, a former CIA consultant and professor at Auckland University in New Zealand, said it's possible the four men, including two Canadians...