CANADA
#1 — CNews | Mass murder threat uttered aboard flight: Source
MONTREAL – It was mass-murder threats allegedly uttered aboard a Toronto-to-Istanbul flight that led to serious charges against a Turkish national, QMI Agency has learned.
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#2 — CTV | Court rejects First Nation case against Canada-China investment treaty
VANCOUVER — A federal court judge has dismissed an application from a small British Columbia aboriginal band trying to stop the Canada-China free trade deal.
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#3 — LFP | Misplaced placebo sparks birth control pill recall
If you use Freya-28 birth control, your pills may actually be placebos.
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#4 — Canada | Vancouver airport on strike notice for the long weekend
METRO VANCOUVER – Travellers flying to or from Vancouver this weekend may face significant delays or even cancellations if almost 350 unionized airport workers go on strike this Friday.
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#5 — WFP | Groups sue Ottawa over lack of review for pesticides banned in Europe
The federal government is facing a series of lawsuits over its refusal to review three pesticides banned in Europe, as well as its delays in deciding what to do about other chemicals that those countries consider too hazardous to use.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Baghdad hit by new wave of deadly bomb attacks
A series of co-ordinated bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed more than 50 people and wounded dozens more, police and medical sources say.
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#7 — CNN | What’s killing all those dolphins? NOAA thinks it’s a virus
(CNN) — The primary cause for hundreds of recent dolphin deaths along the East Coast is likely a virus, and there’s no way to stop its spread right now, federal officials say.
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#8 — Fox | Former Montana teacher gets 30 days for student rape
BILLINGS, MONT. – A former Billings Senior High School teacher who pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old student who later killed herself has been sentenced to 30 days in jail by a judge who said the victim was “older than her chronological age” and “as much in control of the situation” as the teacher.
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#9 — DM | Dead and buried
Egypt has stepped up its crackdown on the smuggling tunnels linking Egypt to the Gaza Strip which began following the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi in July, Hamas officials claim.
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#10 — WT | Stop-and-frisk casualty: N.Y. judges toss gun conviction, citing no cause to search
The recent overturning of New York City’s stop-and-frisk police power has already seen its first casualty, as the state’s Appellate Division on Tuesday tossed a conviction on the grounds that authorities didn’t actually have proper cause to search the suspect.
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