OTTAWA: The Canadian population grew by 5.9 percent over five years to 33.5 million people in 2011, the fastest growth rate in the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations, the country’s five-year census revealed. Statistics Canada, which conducted the census, said net immigration accounted for two-thirds of the population growth…
SAO PAULO: Former Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva was hospitalized in Sao Paulo with symptoms aggravated by his cancer treatments, his doctors said. Lula, 66, “was evaluated in Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo with complaints of loss of appetite and fatigue,” said a medical bulletin published on the hospital’s…
LIMA: Peruvian troops captured the wounded leader of a remnant of the once-powerful Shining Path rebel group, effectively dismantling a well-armed outlaw band that lived off the cocaine trade, President Ollanta Humala said. Humala, a former army lieutenant colonel, flew to the remote coca-growing Upper Huallaga Valley of central Peru…
CARACAS: Youthful state governor Henrique Capriles celebrated victory after decisively winning Venezuela’s first opposition primary, which enables him to challenge longtime President Hugo Chavez in an October election. “With 95 percent of votes counted, Capriles won 1.8 million votes” ahead of his closest competitor, governor Pablo Perez, with 867,000 votes,…
BANGKOK: A man thought to be Iranian was seriously wounded in Bangkok when a bomb he was carrying exploded and blew one of his legs off, police and a government spokeswoman said. Shortly before, there had been an explosion in a house the man was renting in the Ekamai area…
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina will demand that oil companies in the country operate oil and gas fields at full output, a day after the government cut $461 million in annual tax breaks for big fuel firms amid wider austerity. President Cristina Fernandez’ government blames private sector oil companies for the country’s…
PHNOM PENH: Controversial tweets by a Khmer Rouge tribunal judge have inflamed a damaging public spat between the UN and Cambodia and raised questions over how Twitter is used in the courts. Laurent Kasper-Ansermet has angered Phnom Penh by using the micro-blogging site to draw attention to the court’s much-criticised…
HONG KONG: A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, the Hong Kong Observatory said, but there were no reports of a tsunami warning. The quake struck at 1640 GMT around 81 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of the capital Port Vila. The shallow quake,…
A 6.8 earthquake hit the central Philippines, killing at least one person and causing panic in cities where buildings shook, authorities said. The quake hit 70 kilometres (44 miles) north of the city of Dumaguete on Negros Island at 11:49 am at a depth of 46 kilometres, the US Geological…
PATHEIN: Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi hit the campaign trail as an official candidate for upcoming elections, traveling to the Irrawaddy delta for the first time in two decades. Cheering crowds greeted Suu Kyi’s convoy at every major town and city along her four-hour drive south from Yangon…
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