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• Flaherty dismisses British call for financial transactions tax The Canadian Press - 16 minutes ago

  ST ANDREWS, Scotland - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has dismissed the idea of imposing tax on financial transactions to guard against another crisis in the banking sector.

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  US probe of army shooting focuses on suspect's motive AFP - 25 minutes ago

  FORT HOOD, Texas (AFP) - Investigators on Saturday worked to uncover the motives of a Muslim US army doctor suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others in a shooting rampage at a US military base.

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  Tropical storm 'Ida' gains strength in Caribbean AFP - 49 minutes ago

  MIAMI (AFP) - Mexico's government issued a hurricane warning on Saturday as a strengthening tropical storm Ida bore down on the country's Yucatan peninsula.

• Ground broken for Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania honouring Sept. 11 passenger revolt The Canadian Press - 49 minutes ago

  SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - With the words "Let's roll" - the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt against the Sept. 11 hijackers - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a permanent national memorial.

• Obama praises diversity in military, lauds those who ended gunfire during Fort Hood rampage The Canadian Press - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honouring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as "all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable" because it occurred on the nation's largest Army post.

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