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Some Democrats Are Balking at Obama’s Jobs Bill

President Obama anticipated Republican resistance to his jobs program, but he is now meeting increasing pushback from his own party. Many Congressional Democrats, smarting from the fallout over the 2009 stimulus bill, say there is little chance they will be able to support the bill as a single entity, citing an array of elements they […]

Running in Terry’s footsteps

Jason Ayer was just 7 years old when he was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour but the Etobicoke boy still remembers the exact day he heard the news: Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. Through 71 weeks of chemotherapy, he said thoughts of Terry Fox and his goal to run across Canada with a prosthetic leg […]

WRAPUP 1-Syria protesters appeal for help, more bloodshed looms

President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents broke a taboo by appealing for foreign help to stop the killing of civilians ahead of Friday prayers that has regularly seen some of Syria’s worse bloodshed in six months of pro-democracy protests. Syria’s powerful neighbour Turkey indicated that its patience was running thin with lack of progress in its efforts […]

Merkel rules out euro expulsion for states

GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel has conceded that the economic situation of Greece and Italy is “fragile” but has rejected calls from political allies to eject problem states from the euro zone. Ahead of a meeting in Berlin with European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, the German leader said the political debate over euro zone reforms […]

West Bank mosque torched in settler attack

A WEST Bank mosque was set on fire yesterday in what appeared to be a revenge attack by settlers just hours after Israeli security forces destroyed buildings at an illegal settler outpost. Worshippers arriving for morning prayers in the Palestinian village of Qusra, south of Nablus, found the mosque on fire. Slogans in Hebrew sprayed […]