OPEC Likely to Cut Oil Exports by Five Percent
OPEC members led by Saudi Arabia Iran and Venezuela are near agreement on a five percent output reduction totaling about 1.5 million barrels per day. The plan to reassess quotas at the Wednesday meeting aims to prevent price collapse as Iraq withholds crude and Saudi Arabia and Qatar imply others will cover shortages. Prices recently rose above 30 dollars per barrel amid ongoing supply disruptions.
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Vienna
OPEC
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Venezuela
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Saud Nasser Al-Sabah
Iraq
Qatar
No more survivors in Salvadoran quake town
The landslide wreck in Santa Tecla killed 683 people, injured over 2,500, and forced about 45,000 to evacuate. Sniffer dogs failed to find more survivors. a German shepherd mix named Bobby was the lone animal saved. Canada pledged relief totaling over 1.6 million with UNICEF promising 500,000 dollars in aid.
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Santa Tecla
el Salvador
Bobby
Canada
Rene de Grace
Unicef Canada
de Grace
Unicef
Jean-Marc Mangin
Canadian International Development Agency
CIDA
Alberta pays nearly 800000 to settle Day defamation suit
Alberta revealed spending almost 800000 to settle the defamation suit against Stockwell Day with 474426.51 billed by his lawyers and 246000 in costs for Lorne Goddard. The case could have settled for 55000 in damages and about 12000 in legal fees in 1999.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Stockwell Day
Canadian Alliance
Dave Hancee
Day
Lorne Goddard
Red Deer
Goddard
Justice
David Hancock
Ralph Klein
Hancock
Peter Lougheed
Bennett Jones
Onstage confession leads to bank robbery charges in Macon
Glenn Matthews, 43, confessed onstage at the Comedy Cafe in Macon, admitting he robbed three banks in middle Georgia between December 1999 and last week. Police say he was armed with a rifle and fled on a bicycle after each robbery.
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Macon
Glenn Matthews
Comedy Cafe
Middle Georgia
Mike Smith
Smith
Matthews
Hunger strikes run in family
Calgary boy Clayton Giles is staging a hunger strike over a custody dispute echoing his father Eric Giles who protested a dealer in Medicine Hat about 30 years ago. The elder Giles describes lasting more than a week in the 1970s and later negotiating a deal after media attention.
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Medicine Hat
Calgary
Eric Giles
Hat
Giles
Gardner Motors
Clayton
Charities Reluctant to Accept Gambling Revenue
Calgary charities express ethical concerns over funding from gambling profits amid worries about social costs. The Canada West Foundation survey of 647 charities finds reluctance to take such funds even when alternatives are scarce, with leaders arguing revenue terms can feel like blood money. Roman Catholic Bishop Fred Henry welcomes the findings, calling for scrutiny of funding sources.
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Calgary
Canada
Jason Armier
Canada West Foundation
Fred Henry
Henry
Patrick Johnston
Johnston
Canadian Centre For Philanthropy
Toronto
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Canada Re Mutuals
All City News
Wots AG
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