Protest at Kingston golf club as Harris fundraising event disrupted
About 200 placard waving protesters in Kingston disrupted Premier Ike Harris amid cuts to welfare funding. Police used pepper spray to subdue rioters outside Cataraqui Golf and Country Club as Harris entered for a brief speech before departing for Toronto.
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Ike Harris
Cataraqui Golf and Country Club
Harris
Golf Club
Toronto
Ecuador vice president resigns amid graft impeachment bid
Ecuadorian Vice President Albert Dahika, 42, an architect of the government’s free market reforms, resigned after a judge ordered his detention days after surviving an impeachment attempt on corruption charges. His whereabouts Wednesday night were unknown.
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Ecuador
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Congress
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Ruapehu Volcano Erupts Readies New Ash Plume
Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand unleashed an eight hour volcanic eruption, throwing red hot rocks and ash into the pre dawn sky. An ash plume reached seven miles, with up to two inches of ash and dust coating farmland and highways. Bruce Houghton, government scientist, called it the most prolonged eruption since late September.
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Iraq accused of testing toxins on animals in UN report
A U N report says Iraq tested biological toxins on animals such as sheep donkeys monkeys and dogs and conducted bomb and shell tests with botulinum toxin and anthrax simulants in 1988 1989. It also notes a spray tank prepared to release 500 gallons of anthrax and predelegated authority to launch warheads if Iraq faced nuclear strikes.
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