JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 — Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government’s decision to reduce fuel and electricity deliveries to the Gaza Strip as a form of “economic warfare” against the armed Hamas group in control there.
In doing so, the three-judge panel rejected the arguments of Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups that the blackouts and shortages caused by the cuts represent a form of collective punishment against Gaza’s 1.5 million residents.
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Scholastic Canada Ltd. is pulling a line of children’s Valentine’s Day cards with messages that read wish you were “floating face down in a river” or let’s be the kind of friends “who throw up a little each time we see each other.”
The action follows a complaint from a St. John’s parent after her eight-year-old brought the cards, which are aimed at older students, home from school.
Tina Dale says when her daughter ordered them she had no idea of the messages the card would carry. She says they weren’t the kind of cards she wanted Emily to give to her Grade 3 friends.
OTTAWA – It wasn’t the job of nuclear safety regulators to worry about the effect a shutdown of the reactor at Chalk River would have on the production of badly-needed medical isotopes, the agency’s former head said yesterday.
Linda Keen, who was fired two weeks ago as president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), said the commission was “sensitive” to the importance of the isotopes, but overseeing their production was not part of its mandate.
North’s double was one of those expert actions loosely defined as “co-operative,” neither purely for penalty nor takeout, but promising enough in overall strength to support partner either passing or bidding on in the expectation of making a high-level contract.
In general, the responder to such a double should pass and hope for the best unless they feel supremely confident their hand plus the doubler’s strength will provide a fighting chance of making whatever they might decide to bid.
This time, passing the double would have reaped a nice penalty as best defence will set four hearts two (North cashes two clubs and shifts to a diamond) but South decided to co-operate in a different way by bidding a game of her own.
Zellers issued a recall Monday of its two-piece baby sleeper and bootie sets, saying buttons on the sleepers contain lead paint.
The recall affects the Cherokee Baby short-sleeved, striped sets sold in sizes zero to 12 months. Zellers began selling the sleepers, which were imported by Hbc from Sumeet Exports of India, in January 2008.
Happy Monday everybody and welcome to our exclusive coverage of the “14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards” which took place last night and was the first sign of life in the Hollywood community since the WGA strike which began a few months ago. We’re finally able to bring you all the latest hottie photos, news and videos so you can enjoy every bit of what the ceremony had to offer. We will be covering the event all day today and splitting it up into different parts so stay tuned as we bring you more over the course of the day.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – Barack Obama easily won South Carolina’s bitterly contested Democratic presidential primary with the help of heavy black support on Saturday, dealing a setback to rival Hillary Clinton after a week of political brawling.
Obama, an Illinois senator who would be the first black U.S. president, routed Clinton in the latest showdown in a back-and-forth fight for the right to represent the Democratic Party in November’s presidential election.
John Edwards finished third in a state he won during his failed 2004 race, casting fresh doubt on the future of his campaign.
A charter ski bus smashed into the rear of a flat-bed truck carrying a heavy load of pipe early Sunday, leaving one person dead and 14 people injured. The crash happened west of Edmonton.
The first four rows of the bus were reportedly caved in when pipe pierced through the vehicle.
“The front of the bus was collapsed,” said Jack Ramme, director of disaster services for Yellowhead County.
The death of a Comox Valley man in a logging accident this week has left words from the auditor general ringing in the province’s ears.
Ronald James Waterfield, 39, was killed Tuesday on West Thurlow Island. He was a faller, attempting to clear a tree when he was struck by it at around 12:30 p.m. — fewer than 20 hours before Auditor General John Doyle released his audit on the progress of the government’s goals of eliminating forest worker deaths.
While many machines at Casino Regina are intended to offer patrons a payout now and again, the wrong machine was dishing out cash in October — to the tune of $27,000 — the Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation announced on Thursday.
On Oct. 26, an employee of Casino Regina accidentally loaded a self-redemption kiosk with a cassette containing $20 bills rather than $5 bills. Therefore, for the 11/2 days before the error was caught, whenever a patron went to redeem winnings or break a large bill, they got more than their actual money’s worth.
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