VANCOUVER – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative party has returned to power, winning 144 seats in the 308-member parliament. Eight Indian-Canadians have won seats. The party will not have a true majority as it fell short of the 155-mark needed for the majority. The party had held 126 seats in the dissolved House of [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), completed the repatriation of 1,046 cultural antiquities to the Government of Iraq that were seized in four separate investigations dating back to 2001.
The items, which included terra cotta cones inscribed in Cuneiform text, a praying god figurine [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a new report, Blood at the Crossroads: Making the case for a global arms trade treaty, Amnesty International reveals that the United Kingdom and Italian governments’ shoddy and weak oversight of their arms trades has allowed their arms to fall into the hands of al Qaeda fighters in Iraq.
As the United [...]

Thunder Bay - Joe Comuzzi, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Superior North, on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, today announced support for the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association to help settle and integrate newcomers in northern Ontario.
Funding of $2 million will go toward providing settlement services such as language training, [...]

OTTAWA - The Conservative Canadian government is considering dissolving the current Parliament by September 5. A general election is being planned for October 14, according to sources.
There has been conflicts on issues between conservatives and liberals over the last few months.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been complaining about a dysfunctional Parliament and the need for [...]

SUVA - The need to serve the people more effectively and to answer their queries instantly has led the Ministry of Agriculture to implement an awareness campaign better known as ‘Care for Client’.
In an interview with the Department of Information early this morning the Acting Permanent Secretary for Agriculture Dr Richard Beyer said that this [...]

SUVA - Firefighters from the National Fire Authority in Sigatoka attended to a bus fire at Naiyevuyevu, Cuvu, Nadroga last night. The firefighters assisted the injured passengers and extinguished the fire but were unable to save the ten people who died during the course of the fire.
NFA Sigatoka received the emergency call at around 2330hrs [...]

SYDNEY - Minister for Trade Simon Crean today announced that Australia has concluded negotiations for the region-wide ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA).
Australia stands to gain considerably from this agreement across a many sectors. We’ve locked in goods market access gains in a wide range of sectors including agriculture and industrial products.
We’ve also secured a [...]

SYDNEY - The Chairman of the Australian Sports Commission, Mr Peter Bartels AO, today publicly thanked the departing Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Mark Peters, for his significant contribution to Australian sport over the last eight years. Peters today announced his resignation from the post, effective from the end of September.
‘Since he joined the [...]

SYDNEY - The Child Support Agency and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship have boosted efforts to crack down on overseas travel of separated parents who are avoiding their child support responsibilities.
The Minister for Human Services, Senator Joe Ludwig, said today that the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two agencies strengthened the [...]