8 January 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the General Assembly President John Ashe, today urged the bloc…
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Canada said Friday new rail cars used to transport fuel would be reinforced in order to avoid a repeat of the devastating explosion in Quebec last year that left 47 people dead. Large swathes of the picturesque town of Lac-Megantic were reduced to rubble…
9 January 2014 – Timor-Leste, Asia-Pacific’s youngest country, today became the region’s first to launch a national campaign under the…
Nigeria and Britain on Thursday signed a “compulsory prisoner transfer” agreement, allowing their nationals jailed in the other country to serve the rest of their time behind bars back home. The two countries said the scheme meant Nigerians who commit…
Dieudonne, the controversial French comic who has been branded an anti-Semitic “pedlar of hate” by the government, on Thursday won the first round of a legal battle to be allowed to start a nationwide tour. A judge in Nantes ordered local authorities…
The European Commission cleared on Thursday a merger between France’s Publicis and US peer Omnicom which will create the world’s biggest advertising company. The nature of the market, “the presence of other large competitors, the relatively low barriers…
Afghanistan on Thursday said it would release scores of suspected Taliban fighters from jail, despite US objections that the men are “dangerous individuals” who could return to the battlefield as NATO troops withdraw. A meeting chaired by Afghan President…
New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits fell last week, the government said on Thursday in a report suggesting improvement in the labor market. Initial jobless claims, a sign of the pace of layoffs, fell by 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted…
Germany said Thursday it had accepted a UN request to destroy remnants of Syria’s chemical weapons on its own soil as part of a bid to eliminate the arsenal by June 30. The foreign and defence ministries said in a joint statement that the move was intended…
A European Parliament committee approved plans Thursday to hear US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden, whose revelations about snooping on EU leaders has sparked uproar against Washington. Parliament’s Civil Liberties committee voted 36 in favour…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially broke ground Wednesday on the US$185 million first all-season highway to Canada’s Arctic coast, which it is hoped will open up resource development in the far north. The extension of the Dempster Highway is to…
7 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed deep concern about what it said is disproportionate…
6 January 2014 – A senior United Nations official has welcomed a decision by Nepal’s top court against granting amnesty…
6 January 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, saddened by the deadly violence that marred parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, has today…
6 January 2014 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today applauded China for its first public effort to crackdown…
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Jan. 7, 2014) – Canadian franchise directory and knowledge resource, BeTheBoss.ca, today launches an ‘approved franchisor’…
Whenever NSA overreach is discussed, manyâÂÂeven the NSAâÂÂs biggest advocatesâÂÂrefer back to J. Edgar Hoover’s illegal FBI domestic surveillance program in the 1960s and 70s as the prime example of an out-of-control intelligence agency and…
Sidney Crosby, whose “golden goal” in overtime brought Canada the 2010 Winter Olympic crown, was among 11 National Hockey League players named Tuesday to Canada’s Olympic squad for the Sochi Games. Crosby took a pass from Jarome Iginla and fired the…
Last week, press reports revealed more about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) elite hacking unit, the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO). The press also helped the public grasp other NSA activities, like how it’s weakening encryption. All…
A rare opportunity to change the path of copyright in Europe has emerged, but there’s not much time to take advantage of it. The European Commission (EC) has opened up for public comment copyright policy across the European Union for the first time…