CANADA
#1 — CNews | Canada Post cuts mail delivery to 3 days a week
Canada Post will only deliver letters three days a week to save on labour costs.
Beginning next week, mail will be delivered on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in urban areas, the Crown corporation said Wednesday.
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#2 — Globe | North America’s largest forest carbon project launches, sells $4-million in credits
The Nature Conservancy of Canada is receiving more than $4-million in what it says is the largest forest carbon project to date in North America and the first deal of its kind in Canada.
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#3 — LFP | AG’s report to shed light on G8/G20 summits
OTTAWA – The year-old political battle over last summer’s G8/G20 summits and the $1 billion they cost taxpayers could erupt again Thursday because of a much-anticipated report from the auditor general.
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#4 — NP | Canada-linked militant killed in Mogadishu
The Somali National Army said it killed a Canadian Al-Shabab militant during a gun battle in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday after he tried to run a military roadblock in an SUV.
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#5 — Star | Canadians becoming more conservative, Preston Manning says
OTTAWA—Canadians are not only becoming more conservative, they’re also shifting the definition of what it means to be “conservative,” says Preston Manning, head of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy.
“What used to be considered conservative values . . . are increasingly becoming more mainstream values,” Manning told reporters Wednesday.
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WORLD
#6 — CNN | Explicit photo is latest twist in Weiner scandal
(CNN) — A photo that conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart claims shows the naked genitals of Rep. Anthony Weiner made its way to the Internet on Wednesday.
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#7 — Fox | Weapons Arsenal Found in Mexico Contains Guns From U.S. Probe
An arsenal found in Mexico included at least five assault rifles that U.S authorities trace to a federal operation gone badly awry, according to government documents.
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#8 — Guardian | Gaddafi faces new ICC charges for using rape as weapon in conflict
The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) is likely to add rape to the war crimes charges against Muammar Gaddafi on the back of mounting evidence that sexual attacks on women are being used as a weapon in the Libyan conflict.
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#9 — Independent | UK ‘should be made to restock fishing waters’
The UK and other European countries must be forced by law to restock their seas to give the fishing industry a long-term future, the European Fisheries Commissioner demanded yesterday.
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#10 — Telegraph | More than 1,000 Syrians cross border into Turkey
More than 1000 Syrians crossed the border into Turkey overnight, fleeing government troops, a Turkish official said.
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