Elizabeth Edwards dies of cancer: US media

The Canadian province of Alberta is stepping up its efforts to promote the Keystone XL pipeline project, hiring two U.S. advocacy firms with ties to Secretary of State John Kerry. The province’s top elected official, Premier Alison Redford, is scheduled to spend part of this week in Washington to give a speech and to “meet with several legislators and administration officials on both sides of the Keystone debate,” her office said in a press release announcing the trip, her fourth to Washington in 18 months.

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Dr. Suresh Katakkar, the northern B.C. doctor who earned a community’s praise for employing unapproved medical treatments in a last-ditch effort to save a 34-year-old woman, has been accused of repeatedly causing “preventable … harm” and even unnecessary death because of his unconventional methods.

US Senator John Kerry, ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and economist Lawrence Summers have been shortlisted to be the next World Bank head, a source close to the institution told AFP.The added that the United States had yet to make a final decision.Kerry was the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, when he lost to then-president George W. Bush, and currently serves as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

(Reuters) - Angelina Jolie's aunt died of breast cancer on Sunday, a hospital spokesman in California said, nearly two weeks after the actress wrote about electing to have a double mastectomy after learning she had inherited a high risk of breast cancer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Sen. John Kerry to be the next secretary of state. With no opposition to the choice, the panel approved Kerry by voice vote Tuesday. The full Senate is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon.

Tagg Romney, the eldest son of former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is weighing a possible bid for the Massachusetts Senate seat vacated by new Secretary of State John Kerry.