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Canada unemployment hits lowest since July on full-time jobs

  Bloomberg Canada’s jobless rate unexpectedly fell in June to the lowest in a year as full-time work increased and people left the workforce. The unemployment rate fell to 6.9 percent in May from 7.1 percent in April, Statistics Canada said from Ottawa. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted the rate would rise to 7.2 percent. Employers added 60,500 full-time jobs, …

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Orlando massacre shows chinks in USA anti-terrorism strategy

  Bloomberg The FBI let the Orlando mass-shooting suspect slip through its grasp despite interviewing him twice since 2013 due to a lack of evidence to hold him, a troubling fact that will pressure officials struggling to detect lone terrorists without eroding basic civil liberties. The FBI is investigating Sunday’s killing spree at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, as an …

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US Muslim leader condemns attack, slams extremists

  Washington / AFP The head of a prominent US Muslim advocacy group strongly condemned the nightclub massacre in Florida, calling members of the IS group an “aberration” amid allegations the gunman was inspired by the extremists. Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also called for unity and urged politicians not to “exploit” the slaughter in …

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