U.S. and Hong Kong health authorities issued recalls Friday for more products, including coffee and baby crackers, because they may be contaminated with the industrial compound melamine.
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The UN Security Council is poised to vote on a draft resolution on Iran which reaffirms existing sanctions over its nuclear work.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today said the Senate will stay in session as long as it takes to pass a $700 billion financial rescue plan. “We’re going to get this done,” he said. Earlier, President Bush also said a deal would happen. “We are going to get a package passed,” Bush said.
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World leaders and the heads of philanthropic organizations gathered at the United Nations Thursday to pledge nearly $3 billion US to fight malaria in a plan that aims to eradicate the disease by 2015.
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John McCain will debate Barack Obama as planned tonight, his campaign announced. McCain said earlier this week he would bow out of the first presidential debate until action had been taken on a $700 billion bailout plan for U.S. financial institutions.
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The Maritimes are being warned to brace for a wet and windy weekend as tropical storm Kyle gains strength and slowly moves north.
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Outrageous comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen found himself in hot water again on Friday, after storming onto the catwalk at a fashion show in Milan.
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Canada’s fertility rate reached a 10-year high in 2006, when women aged 30 to 34 had more babies than women aged 25 to 29 for the first time, Statistics Canada said Friday.
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Calls for a Calgary federal election candidate to resign over remarks connecting crime with immigrants are “an extreme example of a non-story being blown up,” says Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.
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The UN inquiry into Syria’s nuclear activities has been delayed by the assassination of a key contact, the UN says.
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