Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with Canada's new Ambassador-designate to the United States, Gary Doer, in his Parliament Hill Office. PMO Photo by Deb Ransom OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed former Manitoba Premier Gary Doer as the next Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America.
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BEIJING - According to China's news agency Xinhua, China has called on the United States to reduce, and gradually put an end to air and sea military surveillance and survey operations to avoid naval confrontations.
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Total non-farm payroll employment fell by 47,000 in June, down 0.3% from May, bringing total losses to 442,600 since the peak in October 2008. The proportion of industries experiencing job losses ...
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Universal Society of Hinduism President, Rajan Zed and California Rabbi, Jonathan B. Freirich, have come out in support of entertainer Madonna who was reportedly booed and jeered by thousands of fans in Romania Wednesday night when she sympathized with Roma people, who they say face apartheid in Europe.
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Canadian manufacturers produced 1.2 billion cigarettes in July, down 37.5% from the previous month.
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Public sector employment on a seasonally adjusted basis edged down 0.2% between the first and second quarters of 2009 to 3.5 million employees, after growing at a steady pace since 2004.
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France will not let Al-Qaeda acquire a foothold in Africa, President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Wednesday, vowing that Paris would help fight the extremist group.
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Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit stated that Egypt continues to contact all concerned parties to make the Special African Summit a success.
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A team of Australian Navy divers are on their way to the Horn of Africa to take on bands of heavily-armed Somali pirates.
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News from Somalia were today dominated by the lucky escape of a French man, Marc Aubrière, from his captors of Hezb al-Islam.
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