19.03.2010

Liberals to push Harper on G8 abortion, contraception

OTTAWA - Liberals are hoping to pin down Prime Minister Stephen Harper over where he stands on abortion in his G8 maternal-health initiative for the Third World.

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19.03.2010

Canadian writer Peter Watts convicted in case stemming from stop at US border

PORT HURON, Mich. - A Canadian science fiction writer who authorities say refused to comply during an inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in December has been convicted in the case.

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19.03.2010

Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig dismisses items found in police raid

EDMONTON - Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig says there are innocent explanations for the articles police seized from his farm in northwestern Alberta in a recent raid.

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19.03.2010

Harper's press secretary pranked into accepting arson suspect as Facebook friend

OTTAWA - A top aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not making any new friends on Facebook.

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19.03.2010

Anna Nicole Smith estate to get none of fortune she said oil baron promised her

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get none of the more than US$300 million the late Playboy model claimed a Texas billionaire meant to leave her after he died.

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19.03.2010

Italian town of Cisterna di Latina marks World War II battle and roundup by the Nazis

CISTERNA DI LATINA, Italy - For American forces fighting their way north to Rome, it was the site of a heroic but hopeless stand, where only eight men out of two Ranger battalions escaped German troops.

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