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When <keyword id="16945" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Taliban">Taliban</keyword> attacked the <keyword id="275394" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Afghan-parliament">Afghan Parliament</keyword> on Monday to turn down lawmakers’ attempt to find a new <keyword id="194123" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="defense-minister">defense minister</keyword> for the country, the whole world looked on in horror. The way Talibanese planned and executed this attack, they send out a clear message to the <keyword id="236314" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Afghanistan-government">Afghanistan government</keyword> that they are against democracy. This attack took us back to December 13, 2001, when <keyword id="145182" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Indian-Parliament">Indian Parliament</keyword> was attacked by a bunch of militants. But, if you think India and Afghanistan are the only countries to have faced such an attack, you should check out this list: 
 
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5 Parliament attacks across the globe that shook everyone

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Thursday. 
1. <a href="%20http://www.businessinsider.com/video-shots-fired-inside-canadian-parliament-2014-10">Much of downtown Ottawa was on lockdown on Wednesday after a gunman, identified as Canadian Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, shot and killed a soldier </a>at the National War Memorial on Parliament Hill. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/syrian-kurdish-forces-assess-air-dropped-supplies-as-kobani-fighting-continues-1413916992"> </a>
2. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-russian-prosecutors-detain-four-more-suspects-in-total-ceo-plane-crash-2014-10">Russian prosecutors have detained four Moscow airport workers,</a> which officials say might be responsible for the plane crash that killed the CEO of French oil giant Total, 63-year-old Christophe de Margerie. 
3. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/22/ebola-serum-in-weeks-and-west-africa-vaccine-tests-by-january-says-who">T</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-ebola-death-toll-rises-to-almost-4900-2014-10">he World Health Organization updated its Ebola figures</a>, warning that the virus could infect 10,000 people in West Africa by early December, while a total of 4,877 people have died from Ebola so far. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/world/ukraine-used-cluster-bombs-report-charges.html"> </a>
4. <a href="http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2014/niaid-22.htm">The National Institutes of Health has begun early human testing of an Ebola vaccine, called VSV-ZEBOV</a>. 
5. Tesco, the world's second-largest retailer, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesco-results-profit-collapse-2014-10">confirmed on Thursday that its first half pre-tax profit had been overstated by £263 million</a> and announced that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesco-chairman-sir-richard-broadbent-resigns-2014-10">chairman Sir Richard Broadbent would step down</a>. 
6. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-led-air-strikes-killed-553-people-in-syria-32-civilians-monitor-2014-10">US-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria have killed 553 people over the last month</a>, most of which were members of the terrorist group. 
7. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/capturing-a-submarine-is-insanely-difficult-2014-10">Swedish forces are still hunting for what it believes are mysterious foreign vessels illegally operating in its waters</a>. 
8. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29726934">Britain's National Health System says it needs an extra £8 billion a year </a>after warning of a £30 billion annual shortfall that would develop by 2020. 
9. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-apple-ceo-says-to-add-25-stores-in-china-within-two-years-sina-2014-10">Apple said the company will open 25 stores in China within the next two years</a>. 
10. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-oldest-dna-ever-found-sheds-light-on-humans-global-trek-2014-10">Scientists have unraveled the oldest DNA ever, which comes from the femur of a man who died around 45,000 years ago</a>.
And finally...
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-facebooks-zuckerberg-wages-china-charm-offensive----in-mandarin-2014-10">Mark Zuckerberg speaks Mandarin</a>.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Monday.
1. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/rousseff-win-bad-for-brazil-markets-2014-10">Dilma Rousseff narrowly beat her rival Aécio Neves</a> for another term as Brazil's president. 
2. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/brazil-stocks-in-japan-crash-2014-10">Investors have not taken the re-election news well</a>. 
3. Twenty-five banks <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/25-banks-just-failed-europes-biggest-ever-health-tests-2014-10">failed the European Central Bank's stress test </a>due to capital shortfalls.
4. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/25-banks-fail-ecb-stress-test-2014-10">Nine of those banks were in Italy</a>.
5. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/ukraine-voting-elections-pro-western-stance">Pro-western parties are expected to dominate Ukraine's parliamentary elections</a> in a show of support for new leader Petro Poroshenko.
6. Canadian authorities say <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-shooting-michael-zehaf-bibeau-made-video-police-say-1.2813798">Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the gunman who killed a solider in Ottawa before opening fire in the Parliament building, made a video recording of himself</a> before the attack. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/despite-riches-venezuela-starts-food-rationing-1414025667"> </a>
7. South African soccer captain and goalkeeper <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/south-africa-goalkeeper-senzo-meyiwa-dead">Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead Sunday night by intruders,</a> police say.
8. After 10 years, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/world/asia/us-and-british-troops-end-combat-operations-in-key-afghan-province.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;version=HpSum&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0">US and British forces officially ended military operations in the the Afghan province of Helmand</a>, allowing Afghan's army to take control of two camps. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-apple-ceo-says-to-add-25-stores-in-china-within-two-years-sina-2014-10"> </a>
9. Thousands of Hungarians <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-thousands-of-hungarians-protest-against-tax-on-internet-traffic-2014-10">protested in Budapest on Sunday over a proposed Internet tax on data transfers</a>.
10. Criticism of the US government's response to Ebola has reached new heights after Kaci Hickox, a 33-year-old nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-fauci-christie-cuomo-ebola-quarantine-2014-10">expressed anger after being subjected to a state-imposed quarantine at New Jersey's Newark Airport</a> even though she did not show symptoms. 
And finally ...
In the wake of Tesco's massive profit scandal and lagging sales, new CEO Dave Lewis kicked off the company's turnaround by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/26/tesco-executives-mini-break">taking a crew of senior execs on an overnight trip to a remote cottage</a>, where they were ordered to shop at a local Tesco and then prepare food from the purchased groceries. "It's been a very frenetic time and I wanted to get to know the people and talk about where the business was and where it was heading," Lewis told The Guardian.

IN THE Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which straddles Quebec and Vermont, you can watch a show with one foot in Canada and the other in the United States. Built at the turn of the last century, when both countries boasted about the world's longest undefended border, the cultural centre was created for Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec. Nancy Rumery, the librarian, says the towns were a "single community that just happened to have an imaginary line drawn through it."
Al-Qaeda's September 2001 attacks on America put paid to that. You can still park in Canada and walk across the border to the front door. But now American officials watch to make sure you go back the same way. Elsewhere in the twin towns, movement has been curbed; gates have turned streets into dead ends. Although Derby Line and Stanstead share water and sewerage systems and a Rotary Club, they are no longer one community, says Brian Smith, a local politician.
Many locals hesitate to cross the border to shop, worship or see friends--for fear of being detained and fined, as befell a local pharmacist who did not report to customs when he crossed over to get a pizza. "It's not like it used to be," says Mr Smith.
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The attack in Ottawa last month by a lone gunman, who killed a Canadian soldier and stormed parliament, seems likely to make matters worse. Although there is still uncertainty about the motives of the gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau--possibly a deranged outcast, possibly a religious extremist--the United States is reviewing security along the 5,525-mile (8,890km) line which separates the two countries (including the Alaskan land border).
After meeting his Canadian counterpart in Ottawa in the wake of the attacks, John Kerry, the United States secretary of state, was euphemistic but firm about the need to tighten up. He voiced confidence that the two countries could come up with "some tweaks, some changes, some additions that will promote even greater security than we have today."
It is debatable whether more security on what Senator John McCain recently called the "porous" northern border really will make Americans much safer from terrorism. But it seems hard for politicians to shake off the habit of Canada-bashing. Both Mr McCain and Hillary Clinton (in 2004) have stated, wrongly, that the 9/11 terrorists entered American territory through Canada. An article on the politico.com website last month (before the Ottawa shootings) had the headline: "Fear Canada: the real terrorist threat next door".
What is more certain is that "tweaks and changes" will impede economic exchanges between two countries who are each others' largest trading partners; and they may further fray social relations between once-friendly neighbours. Nik Nanos, a pollster who has tracked cross-border attitudes for a decade, says Canadians and Americans still like each other but have lost enthusiasm for further co-operation, most notably on terrorism.
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Unlike the turbulent border with Mexico, the northern frontier usually gets little attention in the United States. It "just doesn't squeak as loud as the southern border," says Paul Frazer, a consultant on diplomatic affairs. Jeh Johnson, homeland-security secretary in the United States, gave a speech on "Border Security in the 21st Century" last month in which the only allusions to Canada were about the 1920s.
Illegal immigration, which haunts American relations with Mexico, is less of a concern in Canada's case. Of the 420,789 people apprehended by America's border patrol in 2013, 98% were caught on the country's south-western edge. On the northern side, guns and drugs are the big worry, says Jose Acosta, an American patrol officer who knows both frontiers and now works near Abbotsford, British Columbia. "We have Ecstasy, meth and marijuana coming south," he says. "Canada gets illegal aliens and guns going north." Mr Acosta often sees guns and drugs hidden in vehicles or on persons heading into Canada. But for anyone who knows the southern border, "it's pretty quiet here."
Still, comparisons with Mexico can understate the difficulty of policing a line which runs through remote spots like the hills of Montana and Alberta (pictured) and four Great Lakes. There has been a rise in security measures since 2001. The number of American border agents looking atCanada seems paltry, at about 2,200, compared with 18,600 dealing with Mexico; but the former figure was only 340 in 2001.
Since that time the United States has also added aircraft with sensor arrays, thermal cameras, video surveillance and unmanned aircraft to watch remoter areas. Aaron Heitke, deputy chief patrol agent in Montana, says that when he started 13 years ago his main item of equipment was binoculars. Now, in addition to his weapon, he has a radiation detector, night goggles and thermal imaging. Perfect security is impossible. Ross Finlayson, a member of a globe-trotting club, trekked through wild terrain from Montana to Canada last summer, bringing a passport and some anti-bear spray. Neither proved necessary.
Canada has assuaged some American concerns--by arming 5,685 customs officers; agreeing to joint patrols on the Great Lakes; and helping to form teams that include coast guards, border agencies and police from both countries. By one estimate, Canada spent an additional C$92 billion ($77 billion) on security in the ten years after 9/11. On November 4th it announced a new surveillance web, with radar, ground sensors and thermal radiation detectors, along 700km of the border.
Yet while the United States sees the border through the lens of security, Canada thinks of bilateral trade worth $2 billion a day. Businesses of all kinds moan that stringent procedures depress activity. Costs rise when lorries have to queue for hours to be inspected several times over.
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Although border security is not the only factor, Canada's share of trade in the United States has stalled since 2001 (see chart). The near-quadrupling of North American trade in the first 20 years of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement largely concerned the United States and Mexico. (The value of United States trade with Canada tripled over the period, while that with Mexico grew more than sixfold.)
In the wake of the Ottawa shooting, Canadian businesses fear an overreaction, says John Manley, who heads a group representing the country's largest firms. A shopping centre on Cornwall Island in the Canadian bit of Akwesasne, a piece of land set aside for the Mohawk people, shows how changing regimes harm small businesses. When the Mohawks objected to the arming of Canadian guards, Canada moved a customs post north to the mainland. This left the mall in no-man's-land. Travellers from the United States are now told not to stop until they reach Canadian customs. The change has cost the mall's sports store C$50,000 a year and has made some units unrentable.
Canada and the United States have made periodic efforts to ease the flow of goods and people: some cargo clearance has been moved away from the border, and American customs officers now work in some Canadian airports. Beyond the Border, a plan launched with fanfare in 2011 by President Barack Obama and Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister, aims to create joint perimeter security. But work on aligning standards and rules has been sporadic. Every resumption, such as a meeting last month in Washington, DC, is hailed unconvincingly as a new start.
While Canada is keen, the other side lacks the will for a sustained push. Coolness between Mr Obama and Mr Harper hardly helps. Ms Rumery, the librarian at that cultural centre on the border, could see her nightmare come to pass--users having to clear customs to get through her door.
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