China to shut factories during APEC to curb Beijing pollution: Xinhua
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli ordered a temporary shutdown of factories to ensure air quality during a meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders in Beijing next month, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Friday.
Canada vows tougher laws as citizens worry in face of attacks
OTTAWA/HAMILTON Ontario (Reuters) – Canada vowed on Friday to toughen laws against terrorism in ways that critics say may curtail civil liberties as a country that prides itself on its openness mourned the second soldier this week killed by homegrown r…
‘Highway of Heroes’ bears slain Canadian soldier home
HAMILTON Ontario (Reuters) – The body of a Canadian soldier shot dead while guarding the country’s war memorial in Ottawa returned to his hometown on Friday, after thousands of his countrymen paid tribute along the nation’s “Highway of Heroes.”
At least four dead in escape bid at Dominican Republic jail
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – At least four prisoners were killed and nine others wounded, including two guards, after an attempted mass escape at a prison in the southern Dominican Republic, officials said on Friday.
U.S. says Palestinian-American killed by Israeli forces
RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian-American youth during clashes on Friday, the U.S. State Department said, calling for a quick and transparent investigation.
Attacks in Egypt’s Sinai kill 33 security personnel
ISMAILIA (Reuters) – Two attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed 33 security personnel on Friday, security sources said, in some of the worst anti-state violence since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi was overthrown last year.
Residents scrub hate messages off Canadian mosque
COLD LAKE Alberta (Reuters) – Residents of the small Canadian city of Cold Lake gathered on Friday to scrub away hate messages that had been scrawled in paint on the walls of a mosque and replace them with posters reading “Love your neighbour” and “You…
Canada vows tougher laws as citizens worry in face of attacks
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada vowed on Friday to toughen laws against terrorism in ways that critics say may curtail civil liberties as a country that prides itself on its openness mourned the second soldier this week killed by homegrown radicals.
Drone strike kills three al Qaeda-linked militants: tribal sources
SANAA (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike killed three suspected members of the al Qaeda-linked group near their battlefront with arch-rivals from the Shi’ite Muslim Houthi group, tribal sources said.
Exclusive: Canada’s financial intelligence agency gets ‘useful’ data after attacks
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s financial intelligence agency asked institutions to quickly report suspicious transactions in the wake of two deadly attacks this week and has received data “useful to our intelligence efforts,” a spokesman said on Friday.
