A photo released by the Syrian Arab News Agency shows a damaged car in Syria's second largest city of Aleppo on March 18, a day after two lethal blasts in the capital.
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By Bassem Mroue and Ben Hubbard
2012/03/18 19:50:00
The Syrian state news agency called the Aleppo explosion a “terrorist bombing” and said one policeman and one female civilian were killed, while 30 were injured. It was the second attack in two days on regime strongholds.
2012/03/18 22:00:00
An exasperated judge mocked and vilified the “antiquated, wholly inadequate” Ontario courts filing system and wants it consigned to ‘scrap heap of history.’
2012/03/18 22:00:00
Bob Haw wrote home four days before his Lancaster vanished in the final days of the war. A memorial is now erected in Belgium.
2012/03/18 22:00:00
The city of Oshawa’s building department needs a bit of a redo.
2012/03/18 21:42:00
A five-hour riot broke out in London, Ont. as hundreds of St. Patrick’s Day revellers, fuelled by a sun-filled day of drinking, set objects on fire...
2012/03/18 21:41:00
Tens of thousands of Coptic Christians lined up outside a cathedral in the Egyptian capital on Sunday to pay their final respects to the spiritual...
2012/03/18 21:37:00
Danforth voters go to the polls Monday to choose a successor for Jack Layton, whose star power still casts a strong light over the riding he held for seven years until his death last August.
2012/03/18 21:13:00
As library negotiations were extended to 5 p.m., the union representing the city’s 23,000 announced a strike vote for Tuesday.
2012/03/18 21:00:00
One man triggered The Great War: Gavrilo Princip, whose assassin’s bullet killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo.
2012/03/18 20:55:00
Air Canada has requested that the Canada Industrial Relations Board step in after an unusually high number of pilots phoned in sick over the weekend.
2012/03/18 20:27:00
The inner workings of Canada’s annual $15 billion equalization program need to be depoliticized and handed over to an arm’s-length group of neutral technocrats, a new study suggests.
2012/03/18 20:22:00
Ontario’s legal regulator has suspended a second lawyer for his role in a series of unusual real estate deals in The Junction area after he acknowledged being a “tool or dupe” and found guilty of professional misconduct.
2012/03/18 20:14:00
Toronto library workers announced Sunday they will walk off the job beginning Monday.
