Tourism spending in Canada increased 0.3% in real terms in the third quarter, as expenditures by Canadians advanced while those of international visitors fell.
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On Jan 15, people living in the southern part of Somalia will get to watch the 'Ring of Fire' when the moon will cover the sun's disc during the millennium's longest annular solar eclipse.
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Commissioner Rumyana Zheleva, who is to take up the portfolio for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, should be commissioned to the crisis region of Somalia to fight the hunger and the Somali pirates.
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The collision between an anti-whaling vessel operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and a Japanese whaler has sparked protests and discussion in Japan over the possibility of applying anti-piracy laws against the society.
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Following a large increase in November, employment was unchanged in December and the unemployment rate remained at 8.5%. In the last nine months, employment has stabilized but remains 323,000 (-1.9%) below the October 2008 peak.
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(OTTAWA) – Leona Aglukkaq, Canada's Minister of Health, has announced the Canadian gouvernement will provide five million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine to Mexico to help bridge that country’s immediate pandemic vaccine requirements.
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The Obama administration announced Sunday it will subject the citizens of 14 nations who are flying to the United States to intensified screening at airports, including being subjected to full-body pat downs or body scanners. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the government should adhere to longstanding standards of individualized suspicion and enact security measures that are the least threatening to civil liberties and are proven to be effective.
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The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry did not confirm Tuesday the news about the start of negotiations for the release of the Bulgarian sailors, but Deputy Foreign Minister Marin Raykov said the talks might be starting any time.
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Yushchenko ordered delegation to go to Oman to bring Ariana sailors home. On Tuesday, a Ukrainian delegation set off to Salalah, a port in southern Oman, to finally bring home 24 Ukrainian nationals from the MV ARIANA, a cargo ship released by pirates already a month ago.
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All 24 Ukrainian sailors of the Ariana ship, which was freed by Somali pirates already easrly December 2009, have arrived in Ukraine according to a statement by the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which said that on Wednesday, January 6, at 12:15 a plane with the Ukrainian sailors arrived in the Odesa airport.
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