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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba a8 Winnipeg free press wednesday december 12, 2007 world bomb attacks kill dozens in Algeria Al Aida claims responsibility Asun offices hit by Hassane Neftahi and John Leicester a Algiers Algeria ? two truck bombs set off in Quick Succes Sion sheared off the fronts of in offices and a government building in Algeria a capital tuesday ? killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 200 ? in an attack claimed by an affiliate of Al Aida. Al Aida in islamic North Africa in a posting on a militant website called the in offices the Headquarters of the International infidels a unofficial said at least 11 of its employees died. The bombs exploded 10 minutes apart around 9 30 a.m., devastating the in refugee Agency and other in offices As Well As Algeria a constitutional Council which rules on the constitutionality of Laws and oversees elections. Rescuers work at the site of a bomb blast in Algiers tuesday. The attacks killed 26 people an Inte rior ministry statement said tuesday. A doctor at a Hospital who said he was the latest death toll that we have is 11.? new development in the 15-year War it said the dead included two in in Contact with staff at other hospitals Marie Henze a in spokeswoman Between Algeria a secular government staffers. Another 177 people were put the death toll at a minimum of 60. Said that if All the missing were dead it and islamic insurgents. Injured of which 26 were hospitalized algerian prime minister Abdelaziz would be the deadliest assault on the Al Aida a North african Branch a the ministry said. Elkhadem called the higher figures in since the 2003 attack on in offices web posting said two suicide bombers other sources said the toll was High inflated. In Iraq that killed 22 people. Attacked the buildings with trucks Carer. In Deputy spokeswoman Marie the blasts came on the months 11th trying 770 kilograms of explosives each. An official at the civil Protection Okabe said there Are still a number of Day a number Rich in symbolism both Agency who spoke on condition of people unaccounted for a number of for algerians and for Al Aida. ? the associated press anonymity said 45 people were killed. People trapped under the rubble and the targeting of in offices was a add developing countries to climate plan Baird by Mike de Souza nusa Dua Indonesia ? Canada will try to Stop the International Community from recognizing the unequivocal scientific evidence that developed coun tries must drastically reduce their greenhouse Gas emissions to prevent the worst impacts of climate change environment minister John Baird said tuesday. The warning was drafted into a pair of declarations under negotiation at the annual United nations climate change Summit that concludes Friday on the indonesian resort Island of Bali. But Baird said the language is unacceptable since it Calls for the industrialized coun tries to collectively reduce their emis Sions of heat trapping gases by 25 to 40 per cent below 1990 Levels. He explained Canada Only would con Sider the proposal if it included the notion that developing countries also would have a role to play in the fight against global warming. If everyone takes real responsibility to work on reducing this pollution Well see Baird said at a news conference. But if there a a decision by 150 coun tries to impose obligations on another 36 countries it wont work Well for the Baird said he did to come to Bali for formal negotiations rather to launch he added he supported the objectives of the top climate change official Yvo de Boer who has called for countries to establish the building blocks for a new climate change treaty and a Road map to get it signed and approved by 2009. Apart from Canada the u.s., Japan and Australia also appeared to be uncomfortable with the statement in the negotiations. But Liberal Leader St Phane Dion who arrived at the con Ference on tuesday said he would be meeting with a number of countries to convince them to approve the Calls for tougher binding targets. When one country sees others mov ing in the right direction it might also change so As not to appear to be Dis agreeing too much with the rest of the world said Dion who met with de Boer on tuesday night. If we Don to have the 25 to 40 per cent objective it becomes something that is a lot More vague and we cannot allow ourselves to be vague when we Are facing the worst ecological threat of our ? can West news service israeli tanks push into Gaza 5 killed by Ibrahim Barzak and Amy Teibel Khan Younis Gaza strip ? israeli tanks and bulldozers pushed into the Southern Gaza strip on tuesday killing five islamic militants and trapping hundreds of people in their Homes while another extremist died from an air strike elsewhere in the territory. The incursion ? Israel a broadest since Hamas seized control of the coastal strip last june ? came a Day before the first israeli palestinian peace talks in seven years casting a pall Over the negotiations and underscoring the threat that Hamas poses to implementing any Accord. Palestinian officials said the offensive along with a construction project in the har homa neighbourhood of disputed East Jerusalem threatened to sabotage the talks. They said the plan to build 307 apartments in the traditionally Arab area would dominate wednesdays meet ing. The decision to build new housing units in har homa created a lot of prob lems for the credibility of the peace process palestinian negotiator Saab Ere Kat said. Since the Hamas takeover in Gaza Israel has carried out frequent air strikes and ground incursions in response to near daily palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on israeli Border communities. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group and holds it responsible for All attacks launched from Gaza. At the same time Israel has been Pur suing a peace agreement with the rival West Bank government of palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas whose forces in Gaza were routed by the islamic militants of Hamas in june. In tuesdays operation israeli tanks and bulldozers pushed about 1.5 Kilometres along the main Road in South Ern Gaza at Dawn taking up positions across a four Kilometre stretch of land. It was the deepest military sweep since the Hamas takeover but israeli forces with Drew after Nightfall the military said. Residents and Hamas Security forces said at least 30 tanks and bulldozers took part in the operation. Israel a military said 10 tanks were sent in. Soldiers detained More than 60 people in House to House sweeps. ? the associated press ;