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An Afghan immigrant couple and their son were found guilty in a Canadian court of first degree murder in the 2009 "honor killing" deaths of four female family members, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

2012-01-30T01:25:00ZAFP Global Editionby Kenneth Jacksontag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/01/13/Mysterious_death_astrophysicist_shocks_Oxford_161e

LONDON (Reuters) - The case of an Oxford University astrophysicist who was found dead in mysterious circumstances took a dramatic twist on Friday when his wife said she believed the death was an accident and not murder as initially suspected.

2012-01-13T17:08:39ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/12/21/white_Christmas_Canadians_2011_0da1

Most Canadians will not wake up to a white Christmas on December 25 for the first time since Canada's weather office began recording snowfalls in 1955, the government agency said Wednesday.

2011-12-21T15:59:21ZAFP American EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/12/01/Seized_Russian_ship_sold_b0a2

A Russian cruise ship seized by Canadian authorities over unpaid debts will be sold and its skeleton crew is to return home on December 11, a Russian consular official said Wednesday.

2010-12-01T18:24:15ZAFP American EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/11/09/Ship_seized_Canada_sailors_return_c03c

The Russian owner of the Lyubov Orlova is "frantically" looking for a buyer in order to avoid it being auctioned off by Canadian authorities at a cut rate to pay back a 250,000-dollar debt owed to a Canadian company that had chartered it, the official said.

2010-11-09T21:36:08ZAFP American EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/10/08/Plans_afoot_secure_release_seized_14b1

The owner of a Russian cruise ship seized by Canadian authorities last week over unpaid debts hopes to soon repay money owed in order to free the vessel, the Russian embassy in Ottawa said Friday.

2010-10-08T18:10:08ZAFP American EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/10/01/Canada_seizes_Russian_cruise_ship_8b15

Canadian authorities have seized a Russian cruise ship over an unpaid 250,000-dollar debt to the Canadian company that chartered it, the Russian embassy in Ottawa said Friday.

2010-10-01T17:35:51ZAFP American EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/09/21/Hurricane_Igor_lashes_eastern_Canada_9302

Igor was downgraded to a post-tropical storm Tuesday after forcing evacuations of flooded coastal towns in Canada's island Newfoundland province and reportedly sweeping one man out to sea.

2010-09-21T20:58:20ZAFP American EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/04/20/Europe_flights_give_stranded_passengers_0303

European governments opened the continent's airspace to new flights from Tuesday giving hope to passengers around the world trapped by the cloud of volcano ash that has grounded airlines there.

2010-04-20T06:38:45ZAFP Global EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/04/19/Europe_flights_give_stranded_passengers_8088

European governments opened the continent's airspace to new flights from Tuesday giving hope to passengers around the world trapped by the cloud of volcano ash that has grounded airlines there.

2010-04-20T00:28:10ZAFP Global EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/04/19/Nine_domestic_flights_Canada_grounded_2681

Volcanic ash from last week's eruption in Iceland disrupted air travel within North America for the first time on Monday with Canada announcing the cancellation of a batch of domestic flights.

2010-04-19T18:14:52ZAFP American EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/04/04/Obama_attends_Easter_service_historic_7681

President Barack Obama attended an Easter worship service on Sunday in one of Washington's poorest communities, making an appearance at a historic black church founded during the American Civil War.

2010-04-04T17:14:13ZAFP American EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/09/24/Kadhafi_cool_reception_Canada_3436

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is to receive a cool reception when he stops briefly in Canada next week to refuel his jet en route home from the United Nations, an official said Thursday.

2009-09-24T00:00:00ZAFP American EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/03/16/Nine_bodies_recovered_from_Canadian_7689

Nine bodies were recovered overnight from a helicopter at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean after a crash off the Canadian coast claimed 17 lives last week, officials said Monday.

2009-03-15T00:00:00ZAFP American EditionAFPtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2009/03/15/Recovery_teams_search_Canadian_chopper_7692

Recovery teams have located 10 to 13 bodies in the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in the freezing Atlantic off Newfoundland's coast and have extracted one body so far, a Canadian investigator said Sunday.

2009-03-15T00:00:00ZAFP American EditionAFP