Canada turns to reality show to pick a PMSome countries have elections. Some countries have sectarian violence. Others have civil war. But in Canada, they do things differently.
Next March four former Canadian prime ministers will take part in a reality TV show titled The Next Great Prime Minister. The four will grill contestants on their leadership qualities before picking a winner in the one-hour TV special.
While other former leaders will be strutting the world stage - Jimmy Carter worrying about democr... (more)
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Man who fell ill in hospital told: Dial 999GREAT grandfather Derek Ogley was doubled up in pain in a hospital waiting room - but was told if he wanted to get help he had to dial 999.
Derek, 70, had just been discharged from a ward when he took a turn for the worse - so technically he wasn't in hospital.
His daughter Julie, 46, said: "I went to ask the nurses to get a doctor but they said they couldn't as it wasn't hospital procedure because he'd already been discharged.
"They said I would have... (more)
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Bush: Calls for Iraq Withdrawal Unrealistic AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 30 -- President Bush delivered a staunch endorsement of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Thursday morning and dismissed called for U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq as unrealistic, following a summit meeting in which the two leaders discussed speeding up the turnover of security responsibilities. "He's the right guy for Iraq," Bush said an a news conference in the Jordanian capital, as he stood next to a somewhat stiff and unsmiling Iraqi premier. ... (more)
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Stolen cars in U.S., Mexico may be aiding terrorists It is a crime that affects us all: car theft costs Americans $8 billion dollars a year. We all pay for it through higher insurance rates.
Authorities think some of that money and even the cars themselves may actually be aiding terrorists
If that’s not enough, 11 News learned there is a huge hole in the system that makes it even easier for the criminals
It happens thousands of times a year, another car vanishe... (more)
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UPDATE: AP Replies to New Claims Against Disputed Iraq Story NEW YORK The U.S. military and Iraqi officials continue to question a source for a widely publicized Associated Press story about six Iraqis being set on fire last Friday -- and AP continues to stand by it, with new developments today. The latest: A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior at a press conference today claimed that a key source in the original AP report was not a Baghdad police officer, as AP had declared. He also denounced press accounts based on a... (more)
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Litvinenko 'smuggled nuclear material' Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoned former Russian agent, told the Italian academic he met on the day he fell ill that he had organised the smuggling of nuclear material out of Russia for his security service employers.
Mario Scaramella, who flew into London yesterday to be interviewed by Scotland Yard officers investigating Mr Litvinenko's death, said Mr Litvinenko told him about the operation for the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB.
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Polonium detected at Berezovsky's office Detectives have found traces of polonium 210 at the London offices of the exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, it was revealed last night. Officers were searching 7 Down Street, Mayfair, after the discovery of the radioactive substance that killed Mr Berezovsky's friend and former employee, Alexander Litvinenko.
A uniformed officer and at least one plain clothes policeman were stationed inside the lobby of the property last night. Outside another 15 off... (more)
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Bush says violence in Iraq not civil warRIGA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that the resurging violence in Iraq is not civil war, claiming that Al-Qaida is to blame for the escalating bloodshed in this war-torn country, reports reaching here said.
;"What you're seeing on TV has started last February. It was an attempt by people to foment sectarian violence," he told a news conference with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves in Tallinn, Estonia.
"There's a lo... (more)
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FOX News Guest Predicts Gas Will Go to $4.00 a Gallon by January, Claims Israel Will Bomb Iran On Saturday, the panel on Cashin' In discussed a startling prediction made by guest Todd Schoenberger, Chief Market Strategist for Taipan Financial News (TFN) and Executive Editor of that company's Diligent Investor financial advice newsletter. Shoenberger said, " ... [Four] dollars-plus a gallon by January and here's why. It's based on geopolitical concerns coming out of the Middle East. The Iranians right now are talking about having this nuclear device by the end of M... (more)
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Drudge makes light of mourning Iraqi woman with resemblance to Bush The Drudge Report is highlighting a Reuters photo of a mourning Iraqi woman whose partially obscured face bears a slight resemblance to that of President Bush.
The blog "Confederate Yankee" was first to report on the curious resemblance in the Kareem Raheem photograph, which Drudge is now featuring with the caption "WIRE PHOTO MYSTERY: BUSH IN BURQA?" and an additional headline questioning whether the image has been altered, or "photoshopped." The woman,... (more)
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US soldiers kill five girls in IraqUS Marines fought with suspected insurgents in Ramadi, killing six Iraqis - one man and five females, including an infant – the US military said.
The fighting began after a coalition patrol discovered a roadside bomb in the Hamaniyah section of Ramadi and two Iraqi men fled to a house where they took up position on the roof, the military said.
As coalition forces removed the bomb, the suspected insurgents opened fire on the US Marines, who fought back with mac... (more)
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Litvinenko: police probe claims he may have killed himselfDetectives investigating the death of Alexander Litvinenko were last night examining the possibility that the former spy killed himself to discredit Vladimir Putin.
Increasing concerns over the reliability of the Russian dissident's death-bed testimony have prompted police to check every detail of Mr Litvinenko's version of events on 1 November, the day he said he was poisoned.
The Russian dissident's death on British soil has triggered an unprecedented investigatio... (more)
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Date set for Litvinenko's inquest The inquest into the death of the Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko is to be held on Thursday in London.
The hearing will be opened and then adjourned at St Pancras Coroner's Court, said a Camden Council spokesman.
The 43-year-old's death last week has been linked to the discovery of radioactive polonium-210 in his body.
Emergency talks are being held by ministers to assess the public risk after traces of radiation were f... (more)
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Russian Billionaire Badly Injured in Car WreckSuleiman Kerimov, the Russian businessman listed by Forbes as the 72nd richest person in the world, was seriously injured on Saturday in an automobile accident in Nice, France. He lost control of his Ferrari Enzo, which struck a tree at an enormous speed and burst into flames, as he was traveling from the local airport toward the city center. Kerimov was taken by helicopter to the regional burn center at Hopital de la Conception in Marseille. He is now on artificial respiration.
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Kissinger to Serve As Papal Adviser?VATICAN CITY — Over the course of his long and controversial career, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has had many titles. Now he reportedly has one more — adviser to the Pope.
According to the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Pope Benedict XVI has invited the 83-year-old former adviser to Richard Nixon to be a political consultant, and Kissinger has accepted.
Quoting an “authoritative” diplomatic source at the ... (more)
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CNN Iraq Correspondent: Iraq Is "An Absolute Mess"...TV, Print "Can't Fully Capture The Scope"Excerpted from a transcript of CNN's "Reliable Sources":
KURTZ: If you're sitting at home watching it on TV, you see mass kidnappings, suicide bombings, mosque bombings, death squads. When you're there as a journalist, does the situation seem as chaotic to you as it does to a viewer?
ROBERTS: You know, Howie, I had a perception of Iraq going in, and it was the first time I'd been there in three-and-a-half years. I got out a couple of days after the Saddam statue fel... (more)
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W library in record book: $500M center would be priciest for a PrezWASHINGTON - He may be a certified lame duck now, but President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign - an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library.
Eager to begin refurbishing his tattered legacy, the President hopes to raise $500 million to build his library and a think tank at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Bush lived in Dallas until he was elected governor of Texas in 1995.
Bush sources w... (more)
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'Mysterious liquid' and anthrax note shut down Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial was shut down today for over three hours after "suspicious items" were found, including a note which referred to anthrax and two bottles with "mysterious liquid" found in the women's restroom.
"A suspicious packing envelope, along with a note mentioning anthrax, was found Nov. 27 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, and a suspicious liquid resembling a sports drink was found in the ladies' restroom," Stratfor reports. "Authorities... (more)
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Alexander Litvinenko: The Kremlin PedophileThis article was allegedly written by Alexander Litvinenko four months before his assassination.
A few days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin walked from the Big Kremlin Palace to his Residence. At one of the Kremlin squares, the president stopped to chat with the tourists. Among them was a boy aged 4 or 5.
'What is your name?' Putin asked.
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BA to review uniform policy after outcry at ban on cross British Airways paved the way last night for a climbdown over its refusal to allow a Christian worker to wear a cross over her uniform.
The airline bowed to the threat of a boycott by consumers and condemnation from politicians and churchmen by announcing a review of its uniform policy.
The move came hours after Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, threatening to withdraw the Church of England's £10.25 million... (more)
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