Canada PM to probe reports of recruiting of child soldiers in Sri Lanka
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said that during his visit to Sri Lanka, he would check on reports of a stepped-up child recruitment drive by rebel Tamil Tigers in the wake of the tsunami.
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The Sri Lankan military opens an investigation into how a Tamil Tiger suicide squad infiltrated an air force base.
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Canada is to protest formally to the US over the case of a Canadian deported to Syria over alleged terror links.
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Thousands of child soldiers have been forcibly recruited by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka despite a ceasefire called in 2002 between the government and the separatists, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - A naval inquiry could guide Ottawa as to future actions that might be taken against the British government after a fatal fire aboard the glitch-plagued HMCS Chicoutimi, Defence Minister Bill Graham said Monday.
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The United Nations said on Friday it had received reports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers were recruiting children displaced by Asia's tsunami and had told the rebels to leave under-age survivors alone.
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Thailand&#39;s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he will set up an inquiry into the deaths of 84 people who suffocated after being taken to an army camp in the majority-Muslim southern province of Narathiwat.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The government plans a sweeping examination of potential terrorist threats to federal politicians and judges, The Canadian Press has learned.
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is in Haiti to generate international support for the embattled Caribbean nation, Haitian radio reported Monday.
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A coalition of human rights groups called Wednesday for recruiters of child soldiers to face international criminal court charges, the BBC reported.
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World News, New York,Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger guerrillas have recruited thousands of child soldiers despite signing a peace pact in February 2002, Human Rights watch said in a report released Thursday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian government is willing to smooth the way toward a national election in Iraq by helping to train officials there and monitor the voting process, say Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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The Ministry of Defence in London said it was probing reports that one British soldier had been killed and 16 others injured in a road crash in Canada.
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MARKHAM, Ont. (CP) - Canada will increase its aid beyond the &#36;80 million already announced for victims of the devastating south Asia tsunami, which not only washed away lives, but washed away divisions between countries, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Monday.
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin promised on Wednesday to help fund an African Union mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region but he skirted the issue of whether what was happening there was genocide.
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AMPARA, Sri Lanka (CP) - For many Canadians working closely on the tsunami disaster, the shock is wearing off. The mental-health fallout is just beginning.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The public inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal expects Prime Minister Paul Martin to testify at its hearings.