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Kerry will join U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to attend the U.S.-Japan Security replica hermes birkin Consultative Committee meeting in Japan's capital Tokyo on Oct. 2-3, according to a statement released by the State Department. After that, Kerry will go to Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 4, to attend an ministerial meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and join U.S. President Barack Obama for APEC-related meetings. During his stay, Kerry will participate in a broad range of multilateral and bilateral meetings with officials from APEC members, as "promoting trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific remains a key component of the U.S. rebalance policy." Reverend Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., spoke to about 70,000 people at a rally here Sunday, voicing support for the rights of aboriginal children. The 50-year-old King, the youngest child of the late U.S. civil rights leader, was the keynote speaker of mbt shoes sale Truth and Reconciliation, a five-day event addressing Canada's defunct residential school program for aboriginal children. During her 20-minute speech, King touched on a variety of topics, including empowerment for the poor, the need for change through a non-violent approach and the responsibility of the corporate community. "Economic insecurity strangles the physical and the cultural growth of its victims. The family is tortured, corrupted and weakened by economic insufficiency, and so we must ensure that economic empowerment is part of the way forward," she said. Since 1879, Canada took more than 150,000 aboriginal children from their parents and placed them in residential schools. A program, funded by the government and run casque dr dre pas cher by churches, was meant to integrate the children into the mainstream Canadian society. However, widespread reports of abuse emerged in the absence of parental guidance, turning the program into a disaster that destroyed many native families for generations and leading to its abolishment in 1996. The Vancouver leg of the government-funded Truth and Reconciliation, one of seven events being held across Canada, aims to address the situation of an estimated 80,000 residential school survivors. King, who was five-years-old when her father was slain by an assassin's bullet in 1968, praised the event, saying nothing similar had been done in her native America to address the hostilities that exist towards the country's slavery practices that were abolished in the 1860s.Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper condemned Saturday's shooting attack at a popular michael kors replica shopping mall in Nairobi which has killed many, including two Canadians, one of them being a diplomat. "Canada condemns in the strongest possible terms this cowardly, hateful act that apparently targeted innocent civilians who were simply out shopping," Harper said in a statement. He said that Canada extended the deepest condolences to those suffering the loss of Annemarie Desloges, a Canadian diplomat who died in the attack. Desloges was a public servant of Canada's Department of Citizenship and Immigration who served in Canada's High Commission to Kenya as a liaison officer with the Canada Border Services Agency. "The hearts and prayers of all Canadians go out to the families and friends of all those affected by this senseless tragedy," Harper said. "Terrorist attacks like this seek to undermine the very values and way of life that Canadians cherish, and they reinforce the need for us to continue taking strong actions to protect the safety of Canadians no matter where they are in the world." Delegations from Cuba and the United States have agreed to a preliminary Operational cheap beats by dre Procedure for the Aeronautical and Marine Search and Rescue between the two countries, but the document will be subjected to the final approval by the two governments, said an official release available to Xinhua Saturday. The document was the result of a technical meeting held in Havana, the Cuban capital, Thursday and Friday, with attendance of experts and officials from the two countries and developed in a climate of respect and cooperation, said local official media reports. The respective delegations were led by the engineer Oscar del Toro Quesada, president of the Coordinating Commission of Search and Rescue of Cuba, which is affiliated to the Transport Ministry; and Richard A. Button, chief of the Search and Rescue Coordination Division of the U.S. Coast Guard Service. The meeting was attended by officials of the Cuban Transport Ministry, the Ministries of gucci bags outlet the Armed Forces and Interior, and the Foreign Ministry of Cuba, and representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard Service, the Transportation Department and the State Department. The meeting stressed the importance of strengthening the coordination for the aeronautical and marine search and rescue operations and the need of saving the life of people in danger, while pledging to guarantee the efficiency and effectiveness of the operations carried out by the entities responsible for this activity in both countries and to honor obligations arising from the International Agreement on Aeronautical and Marine and Search Rescue and the International Agreement of Civil Aviation. The United States michael kors outlet online government broke off unilaterally formal relations with Cuba in 1960 for ideological differences, but both countries have maintained interest section offices in Washington and Havana and shared a discreet cooperation in certain issues such as the fight against drugs and human traffic. Harper stressed that acts of terror cannot be allowed to go unpunished and Canadian staff at the mission in Kenya are offering Kenyan authorities all possible assistance to bring the perpetrators of this heinous attack to justice. Meanwhile, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander and Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney also condemned this violent attack. "Canada condemns this senseless act of violence in the strongest of terms, and we call on Kenyan authorities to bring the perpetrators of this terrorist attack to justice," the ministers said in a replica mulberry bags joint statement. The death toll from Saturday's attack has risen to 39, according to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Addressing the nation late Saturday, Kenyatta said at least 39 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in the attack, adding that "the despicable perpetrators of this cowardly act hoped to intimidate, divide and cause despondency amongst Kenyans." Kenya has overcome terrorist attacks before and will defeat them again, he said, adding his government stands ready to defeat internal and external aggression.