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Wed, 9 Jun 2021 19:49:07 EDT
Biden says he wants to 'confront' China. Is Trudeau willing to go along?
There has been much talk lately of a new "D-10" group of nations emerging from the G7 summit in Cornwall, England. This would include the existing G7 nations, India, Australia and South Korea in an ex...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Mentally ill Canadian convicted in terror probe lands in U.S. supermaximum security prison
A Canadian family and U.S. experts alike say a mentally ill man from Mississauga, Ont., who was convicted for his role in an online terror plot while a teenager shouldn't be in a supermaximum securit...

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 22:44:51 EDT
Meat company JBS confirms it paid $11M US ransom in cyberattack
The JBS Canada beef processing facility in Alberta has resumed production after a cyberattack that impacted the company's operations in North America and Australia.

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 22:28:29 EDT
Building collapse leaves at least 11 dead, 7 injured in Mumbai
A dilapidated three-storey building collapsed following heavy monsoon rains in the western Indian city of Mumbai, killing at least 11 people and injuring seven others, police said Thursday. ...

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 17:40:49 EDT
Groups founded by Putin-critic Alexei Navalny declared 'extremist,' outlawed by Moscow court
A Moscow court on Wednesday outlawed organizations founded by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny by labelling them extremist, the latest move in a campaign by authorities to silence dissent and ...

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 08:29:09 EDT
Many of the U.S. uber-rich pay next to no income tax, ProPublica reports
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid no income tax in 2007 and 2011. Tesla co-founder Elon Musk's income tax bill was zero in 2018. And financier George Soros went three straight years without paying federa...

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 07:40:06 EDT
NASA's Juno spacecraft snaps rare close-ups of Jupiter's biggest moon
NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided the first close-ups of Jupiter's largest moon in two decades.

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Why the Pope's lack of apology over church's role in residential schools was no surprise to Vatican observers
Vatican observers were far from surprised after Pope Francis stopped short on Sunday of a formal or full apology for the Catholic Church's role in operating many residential schools in Canada. ...

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 20:34:00 EDT
Turning waste into works of art for G7 leaders
Artists Joe Rush and Alex Wreckage sent an artistic message to the leaders of the upcoming G7 summit. Dubbed 'Mount Recyclemore' in Hayle, England, the artists took piles of electronic waste and fashi...

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 10:59:30 EDT
Bitcoin is now legal tender, at least in one country
El Salvador's legislative assembly has approved legislation making the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender in the country, the first country to do so, just days after President Nayib Bukele made the p...

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 04:00:00 EDT
The difficulty of vaccinating the world against COVID-19 is enormous
Uneven distribution of coronavirus vaccines worldwide is raising concerns about potential new variants while fuelling economic problems and unrest.

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 07:37:55 EDT
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on June 9
Manitobans are being urged to keep up their resolve to get vaccinated against COVID-19, as the province reported two more deaths on Wednesday — including that of a Winnipeg teenager.

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 15:13:17 EDT
Criminal gangs thought their messages were encrypted — but messaging system came from the FBI
Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a secure messaging system secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday, as they unveiled a global...

Wed, 9 Jun 2021 03:08:27 EDT
Toddler who washed up on Norwegian island is identified as young Iranian boy
The body of a toddler that washed ashore on Norway's southwest coast on Jan. 1 has been identified. It's a missing 15-month-old Iranian boy who died months earlier in the English Channel hundreds of m...

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 11:06:13 EDT
Ratko Mladic's genocide conviction in UN court over Srebrenica massacre upheld
United Nations war crimes judges on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, rejecting all grounds of his appeal against a lo...

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:11:21 EDT
Canada opens 2 new permanent residency pathways for Hong Kong residents
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says Canada is offering two new paths to permanent residency for Hong Kong residents who work here or are recent graduates already living in the country. ...

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 07:36:48 EDT
Major internet outage briefly hits multiple sites including Reddit, Amazon, New York Times
Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online Tuesday after being hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to U.S.-based cloud company Fastly Inc....

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 09:22:14 EDT
U.S. Senate report details litany of police, intelligence failures in Jan. 6 riot
A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps surrounding the violent attack, but doesn't delve into the r...

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 12:57:42 EDT
Huge new dinosaur from Australian outback unveiled
Australian scientists have confirmed the discovery of one of the largest dinosaur species ever.

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 07:31:56 EDT
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on June 8
COVID-19 case numbers are at their lowest levels in Canada so far in 2021.



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