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  • Bernier-Couilard affair put Canadian security at 'enormous risk'

    Ottawa, June 7 ANI: Canadian MP Serge Menard is in no doubt that the Bernier-Couilard affair has put national security at an "enormous" risk, embarrassing the Harper Government and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.The Bloc Quebecois MP is one of the top experts in the House of Commons on security issues, having served as Quebec's Minister of Public Safety at the height of the province's biker wars in the mid-1990s and early 2000s.Menard said he had misgivings about delving into former Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier's romantic relationship with former actress and model Julie Couillard. He changed his mind after Couillard's ex-husband alleged in an interview with The Globe and Mail that she had ties to a long list of criminals, some of whom he said carried out illicit deeds while living with her.The Harper Government continues to dismiss security concerns over the Bernier-Couillard affair despite two new media reports that raise fresh questions.A major television agency reported that Julie Couillard met with a man closely tied to criminal bikers in 2006, less than a year before she began dating then-Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier.And a national newspaper reported on Friday that Couillard's house was under RCMP surveillance in 1998.The opposition said that the reports are further evidence that the government should be investigating whether Bernier's relationship with Couillard posed a security threat.Bernier was forced to resign as Foreign Affairs Minister last month after it was revealed that he left classified government documents at Couillard's home.In the 1990s and early 2000s, Couillard dated or lived with a man with Mafia connections, one loan shark, one biker and a businessman who owed a large debt to the Hells Angels. In 1998, according to court records obtained by The Globe, the RCMP ordered a surveillance operation on her home as part of a drug investigation.Bernier started dating Couillard in the spring of 2007. He left confidential documents at her home in April this year. ANI
    2008-06-07 07:00:19

  • Rajasthan Government declines to talk to Gujjars in Bayana

    Jaipur, June 7ANI: The deadlock between the Rajasthan Government and the Gujjars continues with the former refusing to hold talks with the latter in Bayana in Bharatpur District. The State Government has asked Gujjar leaders to come to Jaipur to meet their representatives over their demand for Scheduled Tribe ST status. The Vasundhara Raje Government adopted this tough stand after the Gujjars had formed a 50-member representative panel this morning to hold talks in Bayana. Community leader Colonel retired Kirori Singh Bainsla said the talks could only be held in Bayana. The Gujjar leadership in a letter sent to the State Government had proposed to hold the talks this afternoon in Bayana. On Friday, they had decided to discuss the matter with the State Government after top community leaders had met. ANI
    2008-06-07 07:00:00

  • Former Vice-President Arrested

    Following the arrest of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo on May 24, the International Criminal Court should pursue other top officials in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo for atrocities committed against civilians, Human Rights Watch said today.
    2008-06-07 07:00:00

  • Turkish court upholds headscarf ban

    Turkey's secular establishment won an important battle on Thursday after the country's top court struck down a move to allow girls to wear the Muslim headscarf at university
    2008-06-07 06:46:11

  • Brazilian bank wins sustainable award

    Banco Real has been named overall winner in the FT Sustainable Banking awards – the first time the top prize in the global contest has gone to an emerging markets bank
    2008-06-07 06:51:13

  • That's Showbuzz! Highlights of U.S. celeb magazines

    NEW YORK Reuters - Here is a round-up of this week's U.S. celebrity magazines In Touch, Life and Style, People, US Weekly and OK! Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    2008-06-07 06:39:24

  • FCC Chief's Free Broadband Plan Delayed

    A plan by the nation's top telecommunications regulator to provide free wireless high-speed Internet service hit a snag this week over concerns about possible interference and a proposed censoring feature that upset free speech advocates.
    2008-06-07 06:43:32

  • IT's Evolution: Message Delivered

    Ram Charan, opening keynote speaker at the InformationWeek Spring Conference, executive consultant and business author, exhorted IT execs to make sure they're integral to the business of their companies by enhancing their business acumen, speaking the language of their companies' top business execs and closing a gap that often leaves IT out of discussions about company revenue. At least one conference attendee showed he's already been thinking along those lines.
    2008-06-07 06:35:19

  • UN: Zimbabwe aid cutoff endangers 2 million people

    UNITED NATIONS AP -- At least 2 million people in Zimbabwe face greater risk of starvation, homelessness and disease because the government ordered aid groups to halt operations there, according to the U.N.'s top humanitarian official....
    2008-06-07 06:26:19

  • PINOLE / Big rig tips onto car, blocks I-80 off-ramp

    An off-ramp on eastbound Interstate 80 in Pinole was closed for several hours Friday morning after a big rig went off the road and tipped over on top of a car, authorities said. The truck, carrying empty aluminum cans, lost control at 3:47 a.m., skidded off...
    2008-06-07 06:32:23
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