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12 Dec 2009 10:01:24 GMT
Think this ‘surge' will make a difference? Think again
jsimpson@globeandmail.com Barack Obama is sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and hopes that NATO will send another 10,000, a hope likely to be dashed. The chances of this infusion producing “success,� as he's defined it, are ...

12 Dec 2009 10:01:22 GMT
The soldiers' just war
President Barack Obama's wonderful Nobel acceptance speech in Oslo this week has a particular resonance for Canada, as it debates this country's role in the torture of detainees in Afghanistan.

12 Dec 2009 10:01:21 GMT
Detainee watchdog warns Ottawa's actions create 'chilling effect'; Tories refuse to release uncensored records
OTTAWA -- The departing head of a commission probing the Afghan detainee controversy says Ottawa's refusal to extend his term so he could finish the job contributes to a “chilling effect� on cabinet-appointed watchdogs charged with keeping ...

12 Dec 2009 10:01:20 GMT
Canada fiercely opposes proposal to extend Kyoto; Suggestion of adding five years to greenhouse-gas reduction treaty is seen as concession to developing countries
COPENHAGEN -- Canada's Copenhagen nightmare may be coming true. A draft proposal published at the climate-change summit yesterday for the countries in the Kyoto Protocol, the only international greenhouse-gas reduction treaty, calls for five ...

12 Dec 2009 10:01:18 GMT
Premiers get chance to be good guys compared to federal government
COPENHAGEN -- Arnold Schwarzenegger will be there. So will London Mayor Boris Johnson and Prince Albert of Monaco. And introducing some of these political rock stars at a “sub-national� Copenhagen climate summit next week will be Quebec ...

12 Dec 2009 10:01:13 GMT
CRIME BOOKS
U IS FOR UNDERTOW By Sue Grafton, Putnam, 400 pages, $35 This is book 21 for this series, and despite a few bobbles, Sue Grafton still manages to keep the plots fresh and the characters hopping. U is one of her best, relying on a terrific ...

12 Dec 2009 09:46:55 GMT
Philippines says to lift martial law in south
MANILA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The Philippines will lift a state of martial law in the southern province of Maguindanao, imposed after a massacre in which 57 people were killed but widely criticised by ...

12 Dec 2009 09:39:55 GMT
Israeli army fire kills Palestinian in Gaza- medics
GAZA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Israeli army fire killed a Palestinian man in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian medical workers said. An Israeli army spokeswoman said a cross-border exchange ...

12 Dec 2009 09:33:34 GMT
Cuba: Mexican Diplomats Visit
Cuban and Mexican diplomats met in Havana on Friday to try to improve relations between their countries. Patricia Espinoza, Mexico's foreign minister, invoked past connections between the countries, saying, ''We ought to make sure that our ...

12 Dec 2009 09:33:33 GMT
Violence Grips Southern Sudan As Vote on Independence Nears
DUK PADIET, Sudan -- The word went out on a Friday. Chibetek was coming, with warriors and a grudge to settle. The whole village sprang into battle mode. Boys grabbed rusty rifles, women ran to the river to hide in the water, old men stood ...

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