Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Lahore, Pakistan (AHN) - Kite-flying is now illegal in some provinces in Pakistan. The ban follows a number of deaths in recent days, mostly in the provincial capital Lahore, caused by glass-coated or metal kite-strings. The latest victim was a four-year-old...

Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - The equalization program that sees richer provinces sharing money with poorer ones has been rendered a "mess" by the former Liberal government's side deals with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday.

Matthew Borghese - AHN Staff Writer Napo, Ecuador (AHN) - A state of emergency is declared in parts of Ecuador, as oil industry workers go on strike to protest pay and working conditions. Authorities confirm that military forces have been deployed to "prevent further unrest" in the provinces...

AP - Soldiers fired tear gas to disperse rock-throwing oil workers Wednesday, hours after President Alfredo Palacio declared a state of emergency in three jungle provinces to quell a strike and regain control of oil installations.

Reuters - Ecuador declared a state of emergency in three provinces on Tuesday after a strike by 4,000 contracted workers cut output at state oil firm Petroecuador and the company warned it could halt full production by Wednesday.

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - There could be a long wait time for the new Conservative plan to cap medical wait times. Health Minister Tony Clement acknowledges it will take a lot of work with provinces to implement the "care guarantee" that his party promised during the election campaign.

Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Premier Dalton McGuinty says the federal government wants to work with the provinces to help immigrants have their foreign credentials recognized in Canada.

Attackers fired on the funeral of a journalist killed while reporting on this week's attack on a Shiite shrine and bombed an Iraqi military patrol escorting mourners, police and army officials said. At least three people were reported killed and six injured. Today's funeral attack took place as authorities announced another daytime curfew for Baghdad and neighboring provinces.

Attackers fired on the funeral of a journalist killed while reporting on this week's attack on a Shiite shrine and bombed an Iraqi military patrol escorting mourners, police and army officials said. At least three people were reported killed and six injured. Today's funeral attack took place as authorities announced another daytime curfew for Baghdad and neighboring provinces.

Gunmen fired on the funeral of a journalist killed while reporting on this week's attack on a Shiite shrine and bombed an Iraqi military patrol escorting mourners, police and army officials said. At least three people were reported killed and six injured. Today's funeral attack took place as authorities announced another daytime curfew for Baghdad and neighboring provinces.

Iraqi authorities announced another daytime curfew Saturday for Baghdad and its neighboring provinces, just as mortars struck near a shrine sacred to both Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Sectarian tensions are high in the country after the Wednesday bombing of the Golden Mosque, considered one of the holiest of Shiite sites. Reprisal attacks have left at least 132 people dead; 87 bodies have been found in Baghdad alone.

AP - The Iraqi government has ordered the daytime curfew to be extended for a second straight day in Baghdad and three neighboring provinces, state television said.

With sectarian violence intensifying nationwide, Iraqi authorities extended a curfew in Baghdad and two neighboring provinces into today to try to calm tensions in the wake of Wednesday's bombing of Shiite Islam's third-holiest shrine. The curfew, which bars the movement of vehicles but not people, could stir even more controversy because it will remain in effect through today's noon Muslim prayers.

Iraqi leaders are trying to close the widening sectarian divide in the wake of widespread reprisals by Shiite Muslims against Sunnis after the bombing of a Shiite shrine. Iraqi and U.S. officials called for calm, but a powerful Sunni Arab political bloc said it is boycotting national unity talks. A curfew was imposed Thursday evening in Baghdad and three surrounding provinces, which could stir even more controversy because it will remain in effect through today's noon Muslim prayers -- the most sacred prayers of the week for followers.

Iraqi leaders attempted Thursday to close the widening sectarian divide in the wake of widespread reprisals by Shiite Muslims against Sunnis after the bombing of a Shiite shrine. Iraqi and U.S. officials called for calm, but a powerful Sunni Arab political bloc said it is boycotting national unity talks. A curfew was imposed Thursday evening in Baghdad and three surrounding provinces, which could stir even more controversy because it will remain in effect through Friday's noon Muslim prayers -- the most sacred prayers of the week for followers.

AP - Gunmen killed dozens of civilians Thursday and dumped their bodies in a ditch, as the government ordered a tough daytime curfew of Baghdad and three provinces to stem the sectarian violence that has left at least 114 dead since the bombing of a Shiite shrine.

Baghdad and nearby provinces are put under curfew, amid sectarian unrest sparked by an attack on a Shia shrine.

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's forests and wildlife are in jeopardy due to short-sighted management and overcutting in the five major forestry provinces, says a scathing report by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund.

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his cabinet are meeting at the infamous site on Meech Lake where Brian Mulroney tried and failed to negotiate a constitutional accord with the provinces.

AP - Soon after scientists landed by helicopter in the mist-shrouded mountains of one of Indonesia's most remote provinces, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp.