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In both French and English, the four party leaders found their voice and jousted sharply for political advantage

BILL CURRY AND LES PERREAUX
Globe and Mail Update
Source-Globe and Mail

Clinton Presses for Reform Across Arab World

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that the Arab world’s revolutions could be remembered as “just a mirage in the desert” if leaders fail to make good on demands for greater democracy and economic opportunity.

GOP’s Folly Helping Re-elect Obama

Breaking from Newsmax.com
GOP’s Folly Helping Re-elect Obama
President Barack Obama has nothing to fear but fear itself, heading into the 2012 election. But he’d better not get cocky every time the stock market improves or the jobless numbers take a bright turn. And he’d better not gloat whenever a despot is swept from office.

A more mighty Hercules arrives

The first of the Canadian Armed Forces’ new and costly transport aircraft has landed in Kandahar at the beginning of a year that is supposed to mark the end of Canada’s combat role in Afghanistan.

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