Canada leaning towards &#36;20-million contribution to military effort in Sudan
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KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) - Canada is preparing to contribute &#36;20 million to a peacekeeping effort in violence-ravaged Sudan and will make a final decision on the move within days, The Canadian Press has learned.
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TORONTO (CP) - Ontario wants at least &#36;5 billion from the federal government in compensation for new agreements between Ottawa and the governments of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Tuesday.
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Canadians of Ukrainian descent asked the Canadian government to fund travel for up to 1,500 observers to Ukraine to monitor a second try at elections, set for December 26.
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The Bush administration has begun quietly urging Arab countries to help overcome Sudan's resistance to deploying 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers and police to the troubled Darfur region, the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan said Wednesday
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Canada will nearly double its troop strength in Afghanistan to about 1,100 by this summer, Defense Minister Bill Graham told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Saturday the European Union and its member states would contribute more than &#36;100 million to an African Union (AU) force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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Canada's Bombardier Transportation and two joint-venture partners have won a &#36;424 million order to supply 20 high-speed trains to China's Ministry of Railways.
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The United Nations handed over to Sudan on Friday detailed plans for a Darfur peacekeeping force of more than 23,000 troops and police to protect civilians and use force to deter violence.
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Canada condemned a new outbreak of violence in Sudan's western Darfur region and urged the government in Khartoum to accept the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers.
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US President George W. Bush on Friday ordered to provide 20 million dollars in assistance for Sudan. Bush said that the aid to Sudan &quot;is in the national interest of the
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin promised on Wednesday to help fund an African Union mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region but he skirted the issue of whether what was happening there was genocide.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada will increase its funding for tsunami relief to &#36;425 million, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Monday.
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TORONTO -- Canada will extend its military mission in Afghanistan only if another NATO country puts more soldiers in the dangerous south, the prime minister said Monday, echoing the recommendation of an independent panel to withdraw without additional forces.
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China will send more than 200 troops  to Sudan&#39;s Darfur region to help a joint African Union-United  Nations peacekeeping force, its special envoy said in Khartoum  on Friday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Canada's prime minister urged rival groups yesterday to disarm and political factions to settle differences so the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere may make use of international aid.
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin pledged to help Bombardier Inc., the world&#39;s No. 3 aircraft maker, develop its largest-ever plane should the company go ahead with the $2 billion project next year.
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Sudan agreed on Tuesday to a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 troops and police to be deployed in its troubled Darfur region after months of intense diplomacy.