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Canada faces drug shortage fear

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
Canada is facing a national shortage of injectable drugs in the wake of a fire that halted production at a major supply firm, experts say.
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Spain unions call general strike

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
Spanish unions call for a general strike on 29 March to protest against changes to labour laws which make it easier to fire staff.
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Corrections firm offers states cash for prisons

ATLANTA — The nation's largest private prison company made an enticing offer to 48 states that went something like this: We will buy your prison now if you agree to keep it mostly full and promise to pay us for running it over the next two decades. Despite a need ...

Analysis: Syria safe havens? They failed in Bosnia

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- "Safe havens" for civilians in Syria? Think twice, Bosnians would warn....

Police stymied in ID'ing dead Pitt clinic gunman

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The gunman who killed an employee at a University of Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic and shot several others wasn't carrying identification, and his fingerprints have yielded no clues to his identity - but the mother of the slain worker said Friday that she doesn't believe the shooter knew her son....
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Stewart Milne in 'sell-off plan'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
Stewart Milne Group announces it is in talks to sell off its commercial construction division.
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Canal body is former soap actress

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
A female torso found in a canal in London is that of missing former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie, police confirm.
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Pakistan appoints new spy chief

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
Pakistan appoints Zaheerul Islam as the new head of intelligence to replace the retiring chief of its powerful spy agency, after a tumultuous year.
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Israeli airstrike kills militant commander in Gaza

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- An Israeli airstrike killed the commander of the militant group behind the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit and a second militant in Gaza on Friday in the highest profile attack against the coastal strip in months....

Greece secures biggest debt cut in history

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, providing much-needed breathing room for European nations living beyond their means. The agreement paves the way for Greece to receive an enormous second bailout in the hopes of containing the crisis before it drags the entire continent further into chaos....

Antisec hackers hit police store

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
Antisec hackers attack a website that sells products to US law enforcers, linking the action to the arrest of one of their members.
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Pope denounces gay marriage lobby to US bishops

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI waded deep into U.S. campaign politics Friday, urging visiting U.S. bishops to beef up their teaching about the evils of premarital sex and cohabitation, and denouncing what he called the "powerful" gay marriage lobby in America....

Pope denounces gay marriage lobby to US bishops

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI waded deep into U.S. campaign politics Friday, urging visiting U.S. bishops to beef up their teaching about the evils of premarital sex and cohabitation, and denouncing what he called the "powerful" gay marriage lobby in America....

Va. man sentenced for 25 DUIs in Va., Ala., Ga.

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Beach man who racked up at least 25 arrests for drunken driving in several states has been sentenced to seven years in prison....
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Israeli strikes 'kill 12' in Gaza

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
Twelve Palestinians, including the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, are now known to have died in Israeli air strikes in Gaza.
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Wales relish Grand Slam pressure

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
Warren Gatland admits he would "hate to see the reaction in Wales" if his Grand Slam chasers lose to Italy in the Six Nations.
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Feds: NYC hacker also involved with drug dealing

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
NEW YORK (AP) -- The American computer hacker who shook the Internet underground by becoming an FBI informant didn't just break the law on the Web. Documents indicate he also carried a gun and was involved in drug dealing....
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Records show Japan gov't knew meltdown risk early

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
TOKYO (AP) -- Just four hours after the tsunami swept into the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan's leaders knew the reactors could melt but kept their knowledge secret for months, showed reconstructed documents released Friday, almost a year after the disaster....

'Limited progress' over Syria aid

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:22
UN aid chief Valerie Amos says "limited progress" has been made to get aid access to the worst-hit parts of Syria, but she wants to see much more.
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NYPD docs: 'Focus' scrutiny on Muslim Americans

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department kept secret files on businesses owned by second- and third-generation Americans specifically because they were Muslims, according to newly obtained documents that spell out in the clearest terms yet that police were monitoring people based on religion.

The AP has posted the ...

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