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STANLEY CUP FINALS: ; Canucks excited as Burrows avoids suspension bite incident
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The Vancouver Canucks don'tunderstand the big fuss about a little bite. Neither did the NHL.
Vancouver forward Alex Burrows avoided a suspension in theStanley Cup Finals on Thursday when the NHL decided it couldn'tprove he bit the finger of Boston's Patrice Bergeron during theCanucks' series-opening 1-0 victory.
"That's how French guys say hello to one another," jokedAlexandre Bolduc, who centered the Canucks' fourth line in Game 1.
"You want to show respect, you put your …
'US report on human trafficking distorted'.
Byline: K.T. Abdurabb
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates termed a recent US State Department report on human trafficking as "disappointing and distorted."
"The UAE government is deeply disappointed by the subjective and inaccurate assessment in this report," the UAE's state news agency, WAM, quoted Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash as saying.
The minister also criticized the parameters applied to measure human trafficking cases. In contrast to the US report, the Annual Report 2008 released earlier this month by the UAE National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking (NCCHT) indicated that over 20 cases of human trafficking were …

