MONTRÉAL - The Honourable Jason Kenney, Secretary of State (Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity), announced $77,000 in funding for the Roundtable on Black History Month, which will enable the organization to carry out a wide range of activities highlighting contributions of Black communities to the development of Quebec and Canadian society.
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Washington – The U.S. goal to have elements of a missile defense system based in Europe by 2011 is intended to protect American and allied assets against emerging hostile Middle Eastern threats -- not against Russia, a senior U.S. military official says.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today released the letter of apology he has sent to Maher Arar and his family for any role Canadian officials may have played in what happened to Mr. Arar, Monia Mazigh and their family in 2002 and 2003.
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- Friday, January 26, 2007
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Istanbul - Thousands of mourners gathered in central Istanbul to pay their last respects to Hrant Dink, the Turkish journalist of Armenian origin who was shot dead last week. "We are all Hrant Dink" and "We are all Armenians" -- those are some of the signs held up by the thousands of mourners gathered beneath the offices of Dink's "Agos" newspaper in central Istanbul.
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- Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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London -The credibility of the United States has been undermined by the current administration's use of torture and detention without trial, and the European Union must "fill the leadership void on human rights." That's the main conclusion of Human Rights Watch's "World Report 2007," which was released to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Guantanamo Bay receiving its first detainees.
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- Thursday, January 11, 2007
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Washington - Some of the United States's closest allies have welcomed U.S. President George W. Bush's new plans for Iraq, which include sending an extra 21,500 troops to help quell the violence there. Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said it showed the U.S. and Iraqi governments are determined to deal with the security situation.
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- Thursday, January 11, 2007
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By Heather Maher
The latest national poll data shows Americans evenly divided on Bush's proposal. A CBS News poll of 1,000 people conducted the first three days of January found 45 percent of Americans in favor of more troops and 48 percent opposed. However, a majority, 55 percent, said they didn't believe more troops would help the violent and unstable situation in Baghdad. Thirty-five percent said they thought it would.
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- Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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By David Gollust
Washington - President Bush completed Monday January 8 a shake-up of key Iraq policy posts by nominating new U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations and Baghdad. The U.S. envoy to Iraq, Zalmay Khalizad, will take the United Nations post, while the current ambassador to Pakistan, Ryan Crocker, goes to Baghdad.
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- Tuesday, January 9, 2007
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By Rondi Adamson
Canadians are not known for the quality of the television they produce. Yet a Canadian sitcom set to debut on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the CBC) next week is getting slightly more publicity than Gulf Wars I and II combined. And not just in Canada. CNN and The New York Times – among others – have given airtime and column space to “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” The title is a play on the 1970s family show, Little House on the Prairie, based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Washington - Reports say U.S. President George W. Bush is to announce that he will send about 21,500 extra U.S. troops to Iraq when he delivers a major policy speech today. Western news agencies quote unnamed senior administration officials as saying that 17,500 troops would go to Baghdad and 4,000 to the volatile, western Al-Anbar Governorate. The additional troops are to be sent to Iraq over the coming months. The United States already has about 130,000 troops in Iraq.
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- Monday, January 8, 2007
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