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U.S. lawmakers urge scrapping of NAFTA

A person enters at a jobs center in San Francisco, California February 4, 2010. A Mississippi Democrat cited America's near-10-per-cent unemployment rate as the motivation for trying to kill the trade agreement involving Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

The Harper government sought Tuesday to fend off a new trade threat from U.S. lawmakers pushing legislation to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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File photo taken on November 3, 2006 shows Asian elephants at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. An elephant calf has died during protracted labour at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, where its mother Porntip was part of a program to breed endangered Asian elephants, the zoo said on March 8, 2010.

'Miracle' birth of baby elephant

A baby elephant believed to have died during labour was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, amazing its keepers and defying...

British singer Annie Lennox poses with a giant HIV pill bottle opposite the Houses of Parliament, in central London, on March 9, 2010. Pop singer and AIDS campaigner Annie Lennox on Tuesday met UK government officials to discuss the efforts for universal access to HIV prevention and treatment worldwide.

Britain gives one million pounds to S.Africa for condoms

Britain announced Tuesday one million pounds in aid to South Africa for the purchase of condoms to tackle HIV and AIDS in the world...

People stand by a grave before a mass burial of victims killed in religious attacks in the Dogo Nahawa village, about 15 km to the capital city of Jos in central Nigeria, March 8, 2010. Soldiers patrolled the central Nigerian city of Jos on Monday and aid workers tried to assess the death toll after attacks on outlying communities in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed.

Christians flee after Nigeria's massacre

Christian villagers in Nigeria fled their homes fearing new attacks Tuesday even as a officials accused the country's military chiefs...

U.S. kept Britain in dark over torture: Former spy chief

The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the...

A woman holds her belongings while walking on the rubble of her destroyed house, which was hit after a suicide car bomb exploded outside the Federal Investigation Agency a day earlier, in Lahore March 9, 2010. Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on a police ntelligence unit in the city of Lahore that killed at least 13 people during Monday's morning rush hour, officials said.

Taliban 'ready to unleash 3,000 suicide bombers in Pakistan'

The Taliban claims it is ready to unleash 3,000 suicide bombers in Pakistan in protest at military operations and American drone attacks...

Israel's President Shimon Peres meets U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the president's residence in Jerusalem March 9, 2010. Biden assured Israel on Tuesday of Washington's commitment to its security and said the agreed resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks provided a "moment of real opportunity" for peace.

Biden slams Israel settlement plan

Israel approved on Tuesday building 1,600 new settler homes in east Jerusalem, announcing the move as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden...

Former CBS television producer Robert Joel Halderman appears in New York State Supreme Court in New York March 9, 2010. Halderman, accused of a $2 million extortion attempt against U.S. talk show host David Letterman pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in exchange for agreeing to a six-month sentence.

Letterman extortionist gets minimal jail time

It's clear who got the last laugh Tuesday as the senior CBS news producer accused of trying to extort $2 million from talk show host...

Picture taken on April 23, 2005 shows the brother of Pope Benedict XVI, Georg Ratzinger, leaving his brother's residence near the Vatican, in Rome. Georg Ratzinger, 86, said on March 9, 2010 that alleged sexual abuse at the German choir school "Domspatzen" in the 1950s and 1960s he worked at for 29 years was "never discussed."

Vatican says wrong to single out Church over abuse

Reports last month alleged that Catholic priests had sexually abused over 100 children at Jesuit schools in Germany.

Fotini Papadopoulos, widow of ex-president Tassos Papadopoulos, reads a statement to the media outside her home in Nicosia on March 9, 2010 after her husband's stolen corpse was found three months after a grave robbery from his family plot. The body was found at a cemetery less than five kilometres from the robbery site, after an anonymous tip-off from a telephone box.

Cyprus arrests 3 over theft of late president's body

Cypriot police arrested three people on Tuesday over the theft of former president Tassos Papadopoulos's body from a family plot in...

The United Nations logo on the back wall of the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations is seen from the floor May 12, 2006 at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

UN agency punished Somalia whistleblower

Ismail Ahmed, was transferred to another office without proper visa support, and the UNDP Somalia office later told a potential employer...

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Toyota's troubles

The recent safety crisis is the latest bump in the road for Toyota. Global News takes a look at the automaker's troubles over the last two years.

Moroccan rescue and residents remove rubble after the Lalla Khenata mosque minaret collapsed in the old Bab el Bardiyine neighbourhood of Meknes February 19, 2010. The four centuries-old mosque minaret collapsed in Morocco on Friday, killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 70 worshippers, hospital officials and witnesses said. Picture taken on February 19,2010

Africa

Moroccan medinas face uncertain fate

North African country neglects historic cities

Retired General Rick Hillier.

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The detainee controversy

As a retired judge is hired to resolve the detainees documents dispute, we take a look back at the issue.

Exclusive investigative reports examine Canadian and international food politics and production

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Table Matters

Examining Canadian and international food politics and production. Series starts Monday March 8

Ultra- Orthodox Jewish men stand in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City September 14, 2009.

Conflict

Apocalypse now?

Israeli and Palestinian rhetoric over 2-state solution grows extreme

Omar Khadr is seen in this undated portrait.

Timeline

From child soldier to controversial inmate

Eight years after being captured in Afghanistan, Canadian Omar Khadr wants to come home.

A man walks past the statue of Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro February 19, 2010. Brazil, a country long associated with youthful beauty, is entering a period of rapid aging that will change its face. Nowhere is the change more visible than in Rio's Copacabana beach area, whose picture-postcard image of bikini-wearing young women and youths playing beach soccer belies its status as Brazil's elderly capital.

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Youthful Brazil faces challenge of rapid aging

Generous pension system threatens to undermine economic success

This file photo dated August 9, 2000 shows the right rear Firestone Wilderness tire that separated from its casing causing Randall Smithwick III to lose control and crash his 1998 Ford Explorer in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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Recalls and rebounds

The recent recalls from Toyota are not the first time product recalls have hurt sales. We take a look at ecalls and rebounds.

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