Across Winnipeg and Manitoba, a number of celebrations were set for New Year’s Eve to welcome the arrival of 2011. At the Winnipeg Convention Centre, Roy Orbison tribute singer Larry Branson was set to headline a celebration with his 21-piece band. The Forks was also scheduled to host horse-drawn wagon rides, kids’ crafts and a [...]
At least six people are dead and scores of buildings are destroyed after a powerful storm system spawned several tornadoes as it churned across several U.S. states Friday. Authorities confirmed three deaths in northwestern Arkansas and three deaths in southern Missouri, as people in the storm’s wake search for more victims and begin to assess [...]
PASADENA, Calif. – Paula Deen is out of her element. Instead of a kitchen, the Food Network’s Southern-cooking queen was holding court Thursday in a lavish hotel suite. And instead of being home for the holidays in Savannah, Ga., she’s ringing in the new year serving as grand marshal of Saturday’s Tournament of Roses Parade [...]
KARACHI, Pakistan – Violence flared Friday as police and protesters clashed during a mass protest strike that closed businesses across Pakistan over a bid to end the death penalty for blasphemy. Police said protesters near the home of unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari in the financial hub of Karachi pelted stones as they shouted slogans [...]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – A top ally of Ivory Coast’s internationally recognized leader said Friday that the country is already in a “civil war situation,” and he urged the incumbent leader who refuses to cede power to step down by a midnight deadline. The United Nations has said that the volatile West African nation once [...]
LONDON – Britain said on Friday it no longer recognised the ambassador appointed by Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo who is refusing to step down after elections widely viewed as having been won by his rival Alassane Ouattara. “The Foreign Office has today informed Mr Philippe D Djangone-Bi that, as of 31 December 2010, he [...]
JERUSALEM – The conviction of a former president on rape charges this week marks the crest of a trend that has seen Israel’s legal system growing more aggressive in targeting a political culture that has long been rather freewheeling, if not outright lax, about the rules. Israeli prosecutors, judges and police investigators become increasingly willing [...]
TALLINN – Estonia could be the last new entrant for some years when it becomes the 17th euro zone member on January 1, with the club’s deepening crisis of confidence likely to put off larger eastern European states for up to a decade. Crowds queued at some banks in the snow blanketed capital, Tallinn, on [...]
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