BAGHDAD, March 17 (Reuters) - Influential Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr rejected calls to cancel a planned sit-in on Friday at the gates of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which he called "a bastion of support for corruption".
TORONTO, March 17 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose to a four-month high on Thursday as higher oil prices supported energy stocks, while the financial and industrial sectors also gained.
TRIPOLI, March 17 (Reuters) - Libya's U.N.-backed unity government will move to Tripoli "within a few days", its prime minister said in a television interview broadcast on Thursday.
March 17 (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp, the company behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline project, said it had agreed to buy U.S. natural gas pipeline operator Columbia Pipeline Group Inc in a deal valued at $13 billion.
AMSTERDAM/BOGOTA, March 17 (Reuters) - The International Court of Justice on Thursday said it would consider a claim by Nicaragua to expand its maritime boundaries in a mineral-rich part of the Caribbean Sea toward Colombia, a ruling set to further strain relations between the two countries.
RABAT, March 17 (Reuters) - Morocco said on Thursday it was resuming contacts with European Union institutions after the bloc's senior diplomat promised to resolve a crisis triggered by a European Court ruling on a trade deal.
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