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Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
5 hours 5 mins ago
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. The mayor of Canada's largest city did not say whether he has ever used crack.
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Canada: Qatar gives up bid to relocate UN agency
5 hours 54 mins ago
Qatar has abandoned its bid to relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Canada to the tiny emirate, ending a bitter fight between the two nations, both countries said Friday.
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IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
7 hours 10 mins ago
After two days of intense questioning from French magistrates, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said Friday a court named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman that was arranged while she was France's finance minister _ stopping short of charging her outright.
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Gas cylinder blast on Pakistan school bus kills 17
22 mins ago
Pakistani police say a gas cylinder blast on a school bus has killed at least 17 children in eastern Pakistan.
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NKorean envoy delivers letter to China's president
2 hours 33 mins ago
A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions.
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Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US
2 hours 59 mins ago
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts.
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Soldier's slaying prompts UK security review
3 hours 50 mins ago
Both of the suspects accused of butchering a British soldier during broad daylight on a London street had long been on the radar of Britain's domestic spy agency, though investigators say it would have been nearly impossible to predict that the men were on the verge of a brutal killing.
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Honduran gangs to announce truce to cut violence
4 hours 29 mins ago
Honduras' two largest and most-violent gangs will sign a truce next week and ask for a dialogue with the government and police to help them start leaving their gang lifestyle, a Roman Catholic bishop said Friday.
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Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid.
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Finance
How the Dow Jones industrial average fared Friday
Major stock indexes closed out their first weekly loss in a month in quiet trading Friday.
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