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Two
separate killings of soldiers in Canada by suspects who had converted to Islam
shocked the nation. One gunman fatally shot a soldier at the war memorial in
Ottawa, the capital, before entering the nearby Parliament, where he was killed
in an exchange of fire with the sergeant-at-arms. Two days earlier another
soldier had been run down by a car in Quebec and died of his injuries. His
assailant was also killed in a shoot-out. Canada recently authorised its air
force to assist with the bombing of Islamic State forces in Iraq SEE ARTICLE » MORE FROM: POLITICS THIS WEEK »
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China’s
economy grew by 7.3% in the third quarter, the worst showing since the depths of
the global financial crisis in early 2009. Hampered by rising debt, overcapacity
in its industries and a stumbling property market (house sales were down 11% in
the first nine months of the year) China’s slowing economy is likely to miss its
GDP growth target of 7.5% this year SEE ARTICLE » MORE FROM: BUSINESS THIS WEEK » |
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