Day: November 10, 2012

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Iranian Sanctions Hurt Medical Imports

Medicines used for chemotherapy and the treatment of cancer are in increasingly short supply in Iran as the sanctions leveled against it by the international community begin to have collateral effects perhaps unforeseen by those seeking to stop Iran’s march to a nuclear weapon. [New York Times]

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Canadian Police Searching for Would-Be Bomber of Vancouver’s Iconic SkyTrain

A bomb found on the elevated tracks near the SkyTrain in Vancouver, British Columbia has Canadian police on the hunt for the would-be terrorist who was targeting one of Vancouver’s busiest commuter stations. [National Post]

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Australia’s Most Prestigious and Oldest Catholic University, St. John’s, Embroiled in Scandal After Hazing Death of Girl

Australia’s oldest and most prestigious Catholic university, St. John’s, is at the center of a scandal after hazing during an initiation ritual by students led to a young girl’s death. Instead of reform, many critics think the college is descending ever further into a culture of anarchy and debauchery. [The Sydney Morning Herald]

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Putin Fires Defense Chief Anatoly Serdyukov: Shocking News to Kremlin Watchers as Radical Reformer’s Sacking Possibly Imperils Military Reforms

Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has dismissed his defense chief, Anatoly Serdyukov, in a surprise sacking that has shocked Kremlin watchers and placed the nation’s most radical, and some would say much-needed, military reforms in peril. The firing comes as a shock because it was widely held that Serdyukov’s reforms, some of which were not […]

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