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Human trafficking has become a billion-dollar industry that is projected to overtake arms sales as the most lucrative illegal business in the world, said international expert Sr. Imelda Poole.

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PARIS - Shortly after the string of deadly, near-simultaneous attacks around the French capital, Faical Ouertani got a call from distraught friends in Tunisia.

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TORONTO - ItöÏÓãÊÓƵapp highly unlikely Ontario will meet its own poverty-reduction targets in 2013, food bank use has hit record levels and OntarioöÏÓãÊÓƵapp bishops are worried that decent housing has become a distant dream for too many people.

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