Americas

Obama to renew call to reduce nuclear weapons

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Interim Montreal mayor arrested

17 June

MONTREAL — Quebec’s anti-corruption unit today (June 17) arrested Montreal’s interim mayor, a man who vowed to clean up the corruption scandals plaguing the city, on fraud charges.

Obama does not feel Americans’ privacy violated: Chief of staff

17 June

WASHINGTON — United States President Barack Obama does not believe the recently disclosed top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance of phone records and Internet...

House panel concerned about USS Freedom’s problems in Asia

17 June

WASHINGTON — A United States House of Representatives panel that funds defence spending has said it is “disturbed by the number of problems” marring the deployment to Asia of...

US govt ‘probed fewer than 300 phone numbers’

17 June

WASHINGTON — The United States government only searched for detailed information on calls involving fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of raw phone records...

White House says open to talks with N Korea

16 June

WASHINGTON — The White House said today (June 16) that the United States is open to talks with North Korea, but said Pyongyang must comply with UN Security Council resolutions...

Fewer than 300 phone numbers closely scrutinised: US

16 June

WASHINGTON — The US government only searched for detailed information on calls involving fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of raw phone records collected...

Rare brain disease case confirmed in Canada

15 June

VANCOUVER - One case of a rare, degenerative brain disease has been confirmed in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley, and a health official says two other cases are now suspected.

Privacy: Facebook had 10,000 US govt requests for user data

15 June

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from various US government entities in 2012’s second half, involving 18,000 to 19,000 of its...