A Canadian soldier has been killed and four wounded as Canada's battle group pushed into a zone of Taliban control and tried to establish a police checkpoint on Monday.He will be remembered.
Corporal Nathan Hornburg, 24, a reservist who worked as a mechanic for the King's Own Calgary Regiment, was trying to repair a broken tread on a Leopard tank about 4:30 p.m. local time Monday when he was struck by the blast from a mortar shell, military officials say.
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RELATED: Doing the right thing
-- YANGON -- Chanting "democracy, democracy," 10,000 monks marched through the heart of Myanmar's main city on Tuesday in defiance of a threat by the ruling generals to send in troops to end the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
That area was the scene of the worst bloodshed during a crackdown on nationwide pro-democracy protests in 1988 in which up to 3,000 people are thought to have been killed.
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