Apr 20 2009

Tamil Tigers given 24 hours to surrender by Sri Lankan government – guardian.co.uk


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Tamil Tigers given 24 hours to surrender by Sri Lankan government
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A Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil woman at the Manik Farm transit camp in Sri Lanka. Photograph: Ravi Nessman/AP The Sri Lankan government today issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Tamil Tiger rebels holed up in their last redoubt to surrender, as thousands of
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Apr 20 2009

Passengers taken hostage at Jamaica airport – Times Online


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Passengers taken hostage at Jamaica airport
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Passengers on a charter plane bound for Canada have been taken hostage at a Jamaican airport by a man who sneaked on board the aircraft.
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Apr 20 2009

Obama Closes Summit, Vows Broader Engagement With Latin America – Washington Post


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Obama Closes Summit, Vows Broader Engagement With Latin America
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By Scott Wilson PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 19 — President Obama concluded a summit of the hemisphere's leaders Sunday by articulating a broad new agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean, having gained momentum in his bid to repair
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Apr 20 2009

Canadians nab pirates after 7-hour chase in the dark – Globe and Mail


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Canadians nab pirates after 7-hour chase in the dark
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OTTAWA – Canadian sailors apprehended a band of Somali pirates at gunpoint early Sunday morning after a seven-hour pursuit across the Gulf of Aden, much of it under the cover of night.
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Apr 19 2009

NDP plays up health woes in vote-rich Surrey – Vancouver Sun

NDP plays up health woes in vote-rich Surrey
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By Ian Austin, Canwest News ServiceApril 19, 2009 7:26 PM NDP leader Carole James speaks outside Surrey Memorial Hospital on Sunday, a facility which shesays is a symbol of the promises broken by Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals.
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Apr 19 2009

Canadians nab pirates after 7-hour chase in the dark – Globe and Mail


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Canadians nab pirates after 7-hour chase in the dark
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OTTAWA – Canadian sailors apprehended a band of Somali pirates at gunpoint early Sunday morning after a seven-hour pursuit across the Gulf of Aden, much of it under the cover of night.
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Apr 19 2009

Obama opening ‘new era' in Americas: Harper – Globe and Mail


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Obama opening ‘new era' in Americas: Harper
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PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – Stephen Harper credited Barack Obama with opening a “new era of dialogue” in the Americas as a hemispheric summit the Prime Minister feared would collapse in confrontation ended with surprising chords of harmony.
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Apr 19 2009

Canadian, British, US vessels foil pirates in Gulf of Aden – CBC.ca


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Canadian, British, US vessels foil pirates in Gulf of Aden
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A Canadian warship helped thwart a pirate attack as part of the NATO mission to keep vessels safely moving in the Gulf of Aden, officials said Sunday.
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Apr 19 2009

Iranian President Asks Court to Reconsider Spy Case – New York Times


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Iranian President Asks Court to Reconsider Spy Case
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By NAZILA FATHI TEHRAN – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a rare effort to intervene in the justice system, urged the national security court on Sunday to fairly examine the cases of an Iranian-American journalist and an Iranian-Canadian blogger.
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Apr 19 2009

Obama defends greeting Hugo Chavez – Los Angeles Times


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Obama defends greeting Hugo Chavez
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The president says Americans want him to interact with foreign leaders and that the US has nothing to fear from Venezuela. By Peter Nicholas Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad And Tobago — Rebuffing criticism of the warm greetings he exchanged with Venezuelan
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