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SERBIA-ELECTIONS. President dissolves parliament, sets early elections.

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS. Gaza rockets barrage southern Israel.

IRAQ. US military says it shot and killed a young girl north of Baghdad.

EU-SUMMIT. Sarkozy seeks backing for Europe-North African-Mideast union.

ISLAMIC SUMMIT. Muslim leaders meet in Senegal for summit.

AUSTRIA-TERROR TRIAL. Couple found guilty of threatening terror attacks in Austria, Germany.

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US-NKOREA-NUCLEAR

GENEVA _ The United States and North Korea's top negotiators, who have previously broken stalemates in tense …

Bunhead presentsgross-out science

A Top telly scientist will be wowing an Aberdeen audience with hisquirky look at science.

Dr Bunhead, seen on shows like Brainiac and Blue Peter, gives an interesting insight into the gross and grotesque.

During his live show on Monday he …

Single mothers inspired to enter workforce

Abbotsford, B.C.

Nearly 50 single mothers gathered at Cascade Community Church here recently for a weekend designed to motivate and equip them to come off government assistance and re-enter the workforce (a requirement once their youngest child is three years of age).

"Women @ work," sponsored by various agencies including Mennonite Central Committee B.C.'s Employment and Community Development department, gave women an opportunity to meet others like them, learn about their own strengths and weaknesses, meet employers and gather information for job searches.

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"I'm here to get tools," said Dawn, who has three children at home. Others …

Report: Turkish PM to visit Russia, Georgia

TV reports say that Turkey's prime minister plans to travel to Russia and Georgia to discuss developments in the Caucasus.

CNN-Turk and NTV reported that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would fly to Russia on Wednesday for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. CNN-Turk says …

Grim Obama says terror attack 'dots' not connected

President Barack Obama scolded 20 of his highest-level officials on Tuesday over the botched Christmas Day terror attack on an airliner bound for Detroit, taking them jointly to task for "a screw-up that could have been disastrous" and should have been avoided.

After that 90-minute private reckoning around a table in the super-secure White House Situation Room, a grim-faced Obama informed Americans that the government had enough information to thwart the attack ahead of time but that the intelligence community, though trained to do so, did not "connect those dots."

"That's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it," he said, …

Formula stalls road movie

WESTERN (STAR) (STAR)

Paco Sergi LopezNino Sacha BourdoMarinette Elisabeth VitaliNathalie Marie MatheronBaptiste Basile SieoukaDirected by Manuel Poirier. Written by Poirier and Jean FrancoisGoyet. Running time: 121 minutes. No MPAA rating (mild sex andnudity; intended for adults). In French with English subtitles.Opening today at the Music Box.`Western" is a road movie about a friendship between two men, andtheir search for the love of the right woman. The roads they travelare in western France, in the district of Brittany, which looks …

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