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54 things to do during March Break
It’s March break. The kids are out of school for five days. That’s 120 hours to fill. This list of 54 things to do is a good place to start.
1. Kick off the week with a pair of Justin Bieber’s kicks. The teen superstar’s shoes will be unveiled at the Bata Shoe
Museum on Monday, March 14, following an 11 a.m. performance by Bieber tribute artist Landon Holmes. $8 for kids and adults. Call 416-979-7799, ext. 242, or email programs@batashoemuseum.ca for more info.
Justin Bieber shops for an L.A. home
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| Justin Bieber's cousin Lillee Reith poses with a movie poster before a special premiere in Stratford, Ont., on Thursday of the movie Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. |
Justin Bieber is ready to buy a home.
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never: Don’t stop Belieb-ing
Starring Justin Bieber and his family, friends and fans. Directed by Jon Chu. At major theatres. 105 minutes. G
Bieber, Arcade Fire nab top Brit Awards
It was a Canadian lovefest at the Brit Awards Tuesday night as teen heartthrob Justin Bieber and Montreal rockers Arcade Fire both nabbed top awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Grammys.
Bieber voted ‘Least Stylish’, Arcade Fire wins best album at NME Awards
My Chemical Romance were the big winners at last night’s NME Awards, taking home Best International Band and Best Video for their track 'Na Na Na' at the British Magazine's annual ceremony. Montreal’s Arcade Fire took home Best Album for The Suburbs while Justin Bieber picked up some dubious honours.
US agencies say Libya attack may awaken al Qaeda
Al Qaeda has not so far taken advantage of the upheavals in the Middle East but the militant Islamic group may do so if the U.S.-led campaign in Libya does not end quickly, U.S. intelligence agencies say.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR A view of a naval military facility damaged by coalition air strikes in eastern Tripoli, March 22, 2011. |
Public comments on the regional uprisings by al Qaeda figures like deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri have had little resonance in the Islamic world, intelligence and national security officials told Reuters.
There is little evidence al Qaeda or sympathizers played a direct or indirect role in protests that erupted in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, they said.
But before the U.N.-authorized mission began against Libya, U.S. intelligence agencies were advising President Barack Obama that another attack by U.S. forces on a Muslim country could spur militants to meddle in the protests and encourage new plots against the United States.
Radiation fears grow from stricken Japan nuclear plant
Further contamination of vegetables added to global anxiety on Wednesday at radiation from Japan's tsunami-smashed nuclear plant where engineers are struggling to cool reactors in the world's worst atomic crisis for 25 years.
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Doctor Keiko Yamada screens a dog from Fukushima to test for signs of nuclear radiation at a health center in Yonezawa, northern Japan, 98 km (61 miles) from the Fukushima nuclear plant, March 22, 2011. |
Above-safety radiation levels have now been discovered in 11 types of vegetables from the Fukushima area in north-east Japan where the six-reactor plant was battered by a March 11 earthquake and tidal wave, the government said.
Radiation has also been found in milk, tap water and the nearby Pacific sea, though Japan and experts insist levels are still far from dangerous to humans.
The Asian nation's worst crisis since World War Two has caused an estimated $250 billion damage, sent shock waves through global financial markets, and left nearly 23,000 people dead or missing, mostly from flattened coastal towns.
Missing journalists ordered freed in Libya
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has ordered the release of three journalists missing in Libya, including two working with Agence France-Presse and a Getty Images photographer, Getty said on Tuesday.
"We at Getty Images are delighted to learn that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has ordered the release of our staff photographer, Joe Raedle, along with Roberto Schmidt, staff photographer with Agence France Presse and David Clark, a reporter with Agence France Presse," the agency said in a statement.
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AFP photographer Roberto Schmidt arrives at Rixos hotel after he was released by the Libyan government in Tripoli March 23, 2011. |
"We are grateful to those involved that helped to secure the group's release and we will continue to support the work our photojournalists undertake to document news events," Getty added.
Syrian forces kill 6 in mosque attack - residents
Syrian forces killed at least six people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in the southern city of Deraa, site of unprecedented protests challenging President Bashar al-Assad's Baathist rule, residents said.
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Protesters gather near the Omari Mosque in the southern old city of Deraa, March 22, 2011. |
Those killed included Ali Ghassab al-Mahamid, a doctor from a prominent Deraa family who went to the Omari mosque in the city's old quarter to help victims of the attack, which occurred just after midnight, said the residents, declining to be named.
Before the attack, electricity was cut off in the area and telephone services were severed. Cries of "Allahu Akbar (God is the greatest)" erupted across neighbourhoods in Deraa when the shooting began.
It was not immediately clear whether the protesters had any weapons.
Quake-ravaged Japan digs mass graves
The towering waves that splintered thousands of Japanese homes and lives has forced the country to rethink one of its most sacred Buddhist practices: how it treats the dead.
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Family members of victims of the earthquake and tsunami cry after burying their coffins at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi Matsushima, northern Japan March 23, 2011. |
Desperate municipalities are digging mass graves, unthinkable in a nation where the deceased are usually cremated and their ashes placed in stone family tombs near Buddhist temples. Local regulations often prohibit burial of bodies.
The number of dead -- at 9,199 and expected to climb well over 20,000 -- has overwhelmed crematoriums whose incinerators cannot keep pace with the arriving bodies. A shortage of kerosene required to burn them means some cannot operate at all.
"We have many bodies found in seawater and badly damaged," said Kazuhiko Endo, an official in Kamaishi, where a mass burial
is planned on Friday for 150 unidentified people killed by the March 11 earthquake and tidal wave.
U.S. sees key NATO role on Libya, but questions remain
Western nations waging an air campaign in Libya agreed on Tuesday to use NATO to drive the military effort but lack the backing of all alliance members and are divided on the mission's leadership.
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about Libya in a news conference during his meeting with Chile's President Sebastian Pinera at La Moneda Palace in Santiago, March 21, 2011. |
U.S. President Barack Obama, hoping to hand over U.S. command of Libya operations to allies within days, agreed with British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy that NATO would play a key role, the White House said.
But the allies stopped short of endorsing NATO political leadership of the mission, which would be difficult for alliance member Turkey to accept and undercut shaky Arab support for the effort to protect Libyans from Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
France has called for a "political steering body" including Arab countries to take charge of the no-fly zone operation.
Yemen opposition call for mass protests on Friday
Yemen opposition groups called on protesters to march on President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Sanaa palace on Friday to demand he step down, hoping to end a crisis that his allies abroad fear will benefit Islamic militants.
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Girls shout slogans during a rally demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa March 18, 2011. |
"Friday will be the 'Friday of the March Forward', with hundreds of thousands of people... We will arrive where you are and we will remove you," opposition spokesman Mohamed Qahtan told Al Jazeera on Wednesday, addressing the beleaguered Yemeni leader.
Seven weeks of street protests against Saleh's 32-year rule of the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state has raised alarm in Western capitals at the prospect of a country where al Qaeda has entrenched itself falling apart.
Japan sees quake damage around $310 bln, further hit from power cuts
The Japanese government on Wednesday estimated the direct damage from a deadly earthquake and tsunami that struck the country's northeast this month at 16-25 trillion yen ($185-308 billion), making it the world's costliest natural disaster.
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Men carrying staves search for their missing relative in Yamamoto Town, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, after an earthquake and tsunami struck the area, March 14, 2011. (REUTERS/Kyodo/Files) |
It said the estimate covered damage to roads, homes, factories and other infrastructure and eclipses the $100 billion loss tally after the 1995 Kobe quake, until now the highest.
The figure does not include losses in economic activity from planned power outages or the broader impact of a crisis at a stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima, where work crews are still struggling to prevent further radiation leaks.
"The impact from the planned power outages is likely to be significant," Fumihira Nishizaki, director of macroeconomic analysis at the Cabinet Office told reporters.
China seizes on Libya for propaganda war against West
A plot to seize Libya's oil. A warning to the world that the West will cling to dominance. A flagrant display of hypocrisy over human rights.
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Libyan army soldiers stand on a building, destroyed in what the government said was a western missile attack, inside Bab Al-Aziziyah, Gaddafi's heavily fortified Tripoli compound March 21, 2011. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra) |
China's ruling Communist Party has countered the West's air strikes against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi with a torrent of such criticisms in state-run newspapers and television, mounting a propaganda campaign to deter the public from any temptation to copy Arab insurrections against authoritarian rulers.
The media drive shows how nervous China's leaders are about any challenges to their firm hold on power, and especially about online comments that Western action in Libya shows the supremacy of international human rights standards, said Li Datong, a former editor at a Chinese party newspaper.
"The Chinese Communist Party sees a big threat in the idea that human rights and democratic demands can outweigh state sovereignty. They want to counter all that," said Li, who was forced out of his job for denouncing censorship.
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