Archive for February, 2014

Yahoo News – Canada’s economy grew more than expected in the fourth quarter of 2013, a development that could help kill off any remaining market...

The Globe and Mail – Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders) has been kicked out of Myanmar after two decades of caring for sick people...

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  CNN – China has smashed four child-trafficking rings and arrested more than a thousand people for using websites and instant messaging groups to trade...

The Wall Street Journal –  Effective May 1, 2014, Genworth Canada will increase its mortgage insurance premium rates by an average of 15 per cent....

The Huffington Post – North Korea fired four suspected short-range missiles into its eastern waters Thursday, South Korean defense officials said, in an apparent effort...

Gunmen Seize Crimea’s Airport

By World on the Run

Los Angeles Times – Armed Russian men in unmarked military uniforms took up positions at Crimea’s main airport in Simferopol early Friday, and there were...

Tokyo Bitcoin Exchange Bankrupt

By World on the Run

CNBC – Major bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox, has lost nearly all the virtual currency held in its systems and has filed for bankruptcy protection at a...

CBC – In the White Pass area of the Klondike Highway in northern British Columbia, Fraser Camp is a bit like a fire hall. Three men...

The Gazette –  An FBI agent overheard Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev make a “statement to his detriment” when his sister visited him in prison,...

BBC – More than 200 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have broken into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla by scaling the border fence. It is...

The Guardian – Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet...

Reuters – Mattel said Friday it will come to the US debt market in the second quarter after announcing its US$460m acquisition of Canada’s Mega...

Reuters – When Louis Bandak fled the violence in Syria, he sought refuge in the country his grandfather was forced to abandon exactly 90 years...

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Obama: $200M For Minority Youth

By World on the Run

The Daily Beast – On Thursday afternoon, President Obama announced his plan to help black boys beat the odds. Like he did. “I made bad...

The New York Times – As my colleagues Kareem Fahim and Mayy El Sheikh reported, the Egyptian military made the unlikely announcement last week that...

BBC – A jihadist group in Syria has demanded that Christians in the northern city of Raqqa pay a levy in gold and accept curbs...