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Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledges money to clean up lake Winnipeg after pulling funding from Ontario’s Experimental Lakes Area. [Winnipeg Free Press]
Brazil ‘vote-buying’ corruption trial begins. Dubbed “the trial of the century”, 38 former officials face prosecution over vote-buying in Congress between 2002-2005. [Al Jazeera]
Terrorists in Afghanistan will stop at nothing to keep Afghan girls from receiving an education. [CNN]