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Bush, Sarkozy to attend opening ceremony By GEOFFREY YORK BEIJING -- More than a month before any gold medals will be handed out, China has already achieved one of its biggest Olympic triumphs: a victory over the organizers of an attempted boycott. FULL STORY MP killed while going home in Afghanistan Kandahar -- Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a member of Afghanistan's parliament in the troubled southern province of Kandahar, a district governor said today.''Habibullah Jan was shot dead by unknown gunmen while going home'' last evening, said Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi, governor of Zharai district where the MP was killed. FULL STORY Pakistan's nuclear architect changes story on N. Korea Islamabad -- The disgraced architect of Pakistan's nuclear program said yesterday that it provided centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army under President Pervez Musharraf.Abdul Qadeer Khan, said in an interview that the uranium enrichment equipment was sent from Pakistan in a North Korean plane that was loaded under the supervision of Pakistani security officials. FULL STORY Ottawa man believed kidnapped in Colombia -- A Canadian man who went missing eight days ago in Colombia is believed to have been kidnapped, the CBC reported yesterday, citing a Colombian army official.Thomas Orland MacLean, 46, believed to be an electrical engineer from Ottawa, was last seen on June 26 along with his brother-in-law, a cattle rancher from Pereira, Colombia, named Jesus Salvador Aristizabal Zuluaga, said General Justo Eliseo Pena, commanding officer of the third division of the Colombian army. FULL STORY In the shadow of the Red Mosque Consequences of deadly assault still reverberate throughout Pakistani society By SAEED SHAH ISLAMABAD -- The bloodbath at Islamabad's Red Mosque continues to hang like a grim shadow over Pakistan's fractured politics and society, one year after the army moved against militants holed up there. FULL STORY Weight of the world too heavy for these shoulders At this year's G8 summit, there's one issue that will overshadow the rest: a growing call for the group's abolition By DOUG SAUNDERS LONDON -- As Prime Minister Stephen Harper travels to Japan this weekend to gather with seven other world leaders for the G8 summit, there will be an uneasy feeling of deja vu. It might be called That Seventies Summit. FULL STORY |
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