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Canadian prime minister's top aide quits over expenses scandal
Reuters* Expenses crisis threatening to undermine government * Conservatives trailing in opinion polls By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, May 19 (Reuters) - The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper abruptly resigned on Sunday over his role in an...Tags: Ottawa (Canada), Politics, Elections, Values, Ethics
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Incapable politicians should leave posts: Rai
The Lebanon Daily StarMaronite Patriarch Cardinal Beshara Rai lashed out at politicians over their failure to form a government and draft an electoral law, saying leaders who fail to handle these tasks should not remain in their posts. "If they are not able to draft an...Tags: Parliament, Crime, Law and Justice, Jihad, Politics, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder
It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather's spirit was content in the Pennsylvania town where his body has lain for six decades. "Grandpa...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Carbon County, Judges, Museum of Natural History
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Support in solving unemployment sought
The Manila Times, PhilippinesThe government is encouraging the private sector to participate in solving the country's problem in unemployment, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said over the weekend. NEDA added that the government needed stronger support from...Tags: Philippines, Unemployment, Politics, Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Barack Obama, White House, Defense
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Attorney General Cuccinelli not subject to Freedom of Information Act
The Roanoke Times, Va.The state's open government law doesn't apply to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, his office says, elaborating on responses to requests for public records connected with a company whose CEO gave $35,000 in gifts to Cuccinelli and Gov. Bob McDonnell. The...Tags: Ken Cuccinelli, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Justice and Rights, Regional Authority
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Natural gas drilling at airport projected for 2016
Beaver County Times, Pa.As an Immervin sales representative, Mike Walton wasn't content knocking on a few doors. He wanted to burst through them -- especially those associated with the Marcellus shale natural gas boom. Immervin, a 6-month-old Bridgeville industrial...Tags: Energy Resources, Politics, Pittsburgh, Federal Aviation Administration, Government
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Protesting Egyptian police block Israel border crossing
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday to pressure the Cairo government to help free the men, security...Tags: Jerusalem (Israel), Israel, Politics, Egypt, Cairo (Egypt)
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Government forces in Syria attack rebel stronghold of Qusair
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces launched a long-planned offensive early Sunday on the strategic city of Qusair and neighboring rebel-controlled villages near the Lebanese border, with heavy shelling that began shortly after midnight, according...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Politics, United Nations, Government, Lebanon
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Tshuva: Gas exports worth $100b to Treasury
Globes, Tel Aviv, Israel"It is especially important these days to remember that gas exports alone will generate $100 billion for the treasury and the Israeli economy over the next 20 years," said Delek Group Ltd. (TASE: DLEKG) controlling shareholder Yitzhak Tshuva at Mizrahi...Tags: Energy Resources, Israel, Politics, NASDAQ, Petroleum Industry
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BRIEF: Govt plans to use army to break any port strike
Globes, Tel Aviv, IsraelPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Finance Yair Lapid, Minister of the Economy Naftali Bennett, and Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz, do not hide their desire "to break the monopoly" and to create competition between Israel's seaports, and...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Israel, Politics, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tel Aviv (Israel)
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'No surprise Israel tops OECD poverty table'
Globes, Tel Aviv, Israel"No one in Israel should be surprised that Israel tops the poverty rankings. This is the direct result of economic and budget policies which benefit the rich and hurt the poor," Prof. Momi Dahan, the head of the Federmann School for Public Policy and...Tags: Israel, Politics, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Tel Aviv (Israel), Personal Income
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