similar to the data tapped in China or Iraq . The French president said France and the EU , if not all US partners , would need guarantees on the spying issue before going ahead with negotiations and dealings with the United States but beyond the rhetoric it avoids noting the collaboration of individual European intelligence units with the US efforts to monitor global telecommunications .
Canadian police said on Tuesday they foiled an al Qaeda-inspired plot to detonate three pressure-cooker bombs during Monday ' s Canada Day holiday outside the parliament building in the Pacific coast city of Victoria , arresting a Canadian man and woman and seizing their home-made explosive devices . Police said there was no evidence to suggest a foreign link to the planned attack , which targeted public celebrations outside the parliament building in Victoria , capital of the province of British Columbia . They declined to detail any links between the two Canadians and the al Qaeda network . They also said they were not aware of any connection to the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon in which three people were killed by devices built from pressure cookers . Police said there was no risk to the public at any time because they began monitoring the suspects in February and had known all along what was happening . The two people charged are John Stuart Nuttall and Amanda Korody , Canadian-born citizens from Surrey , British Columbia . The Canadian spy agency , CSIS , has expressed concern that disgruntled and radicalized Canadians could attack targets at home and abroad . In April , Canadian police arrested two men and charged them with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation they say was backed by al Qaeda elements in Iran . Police also say Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria in January .
Europe About 3,000 demonstrators blocked downtown Sarajevo ' s streets on Monday in a sit-down protest at the failure of Bosnian lawmakers to pass a law on the registration of newborn babies . The protesters included young mothers who set up an improvised playgroup for babies on the lawn outside parliament . The socalled " Baby Protests " sprung up after a court suspended a law on the issuing of identity numbers for citizens , used for everything from medical documents to passports , effectively halting the registration of newborn babies . Public anger grew with the death last month of a three-month-old baby after urgent surgery was delayed because her parents had been unable to obtain the necessary travel documents . The movement has given voice to years of mounting frustration among Bosnians at the bickering of rival Serb , Muslim and Croat leaders that has stifled recovery and reform since the end of the 1992-95 Bosnia war . Monday ' s protest was the first since the passing of a June 30 deadline set by organizers for lawmakers to agree a permanent solution . Protesters called on Bosnians not to pay utility bills until a new law is passed . A US-brokered peace deal ended the war but created a system of ethnic power-sharing so unwieldy
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