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A suspected terrorist attack has taken place inside Canada's parliament building and surrounding area.
"I was just taking off my jacket to go into Caucus, I hear this pop, pop, pop, possibly ten shots, don't really know, thought it was dynamite or construction rather than anything else."
The United States imposed new constraints on Wednesday for people entering the country from the three West African nations effected by the Ebola virus.
"A number of things make us cautiously more optimistic about the situation here in the United States. And it just gives, I think, people, one more sense of how difficult it is to get this disease."
Countries attending the Asia-Pacific summit in Beijing pledge to pursue "flexible" fiscal policies to support the global economy and job creation.
"The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation must effectively shoulder the important mission of promoting regional and global development, and pushing to formulate a new pattern of opening up and development."
And a US federal jury has found four Blackwater security guards guilty of killing 14 Iraqis in a square in Baghdad in 2007.
"It's difficult to understand it in the evidence but I'm going to review our options with Evan and I expect we're going to appeal and we're going to continue to fight vigorously for him."
Those stories and more over the hour and towards the end of the show we'll be looking at comments online about Chinese grannies are counting on plastic surgery to debut on Spring Festival Gala.
Now our global survey of headlines
First up, in Asia,
In Pakistan, supporters of a leading anti-government cleric are ending a two-month sit-in in Islamabad after failing to force PM Nawaz Sharif to resign.
In China, Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso has met China's Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli in Beijing, fuelling speculation of a possible meeting between the two countries' leaders.
Staying in the country, senior diplomats from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) gathered in Beijing on Tuesday for a cyber security meeting to enhance trust and cooperation in cyberspace.
In Oceania,
In Australia, federal police have increased patrols around Parliament House in Canberra after the deadly shooting in Canada's capital, Ottawa.
Staying in the country, an advocacy group for prisoners has criticized criminal charges laid against inmates accused of rioting at Goulburn's jail in south-east
Moving on to Africa,
In Sierra Leone, dozens of Ebola survivors have been discharged from a treatment center near the capital and told they were virus-free, as police and residents clashed in other areas of the West African country.
In Nigeria, doctors believe it will take years for the facility that treated the country's first Ebola victim years to recover.
And in the Middle East,
In Iraq, Kurdish lawmakers approved a plan on Wednesday to send fighters to the Syrian town of Kobani to relieve fellow Kurds under attack by Islamic State militants, marking the semi-autonomous region's first military foray into Syria's war.
In Syria, The Syrian military has stepped up air strikes on rebel areas dramatically, carrying out more than 200 in recent days.
Looking to Latin America,
In Mexico, the government has ordered the arrest of the mayor of the southern town of Iguala, where six people died and 43 students disappeared after clashing with local police last month.
In Brazil, incumbent President Dilma Rousseff pulled ahead of opposition candidate Aecio Neves in another poll on Wednesday.
And in Europe,
In Albania, the prime minister said Wednesday that his nation and Serbia must try to end decades of hostility toward one another by focusing on major issues such as their mutual desire to join the European Union.
In Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko's party on Wednesday led the final polls before Sunday's parliamentary vote held as the country faced an unresolved Russian gas dispute and raging hostilities in the east.
And finally in North America,
In America, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Italian Minister of Defense Roberta Pinotti on Wednesday, discussing planned Italian contributions to the fight against the Islamic State (IS) forces, according to a statement issued by U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
Staying in the country, the U.S. government announced Wednesday all travelers from West African Ebola-affected countries will be actively monitored for 21 days, the incubation period for the deadly disease.
That's our global survey of headlines.
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