| | Toronto Sun Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:00 AM | | Tim Campbell
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:44 AM | | JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's new environmental protection minister has set some ambitious goals: She believes she can use her office to play an important role in the global battle against climate change while also promoting peace in the volatile Middle East. Tamar Zandberg laid out her agenda in an interview with The Associated Press ahead […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:33 AM | | LAS VEGAS (AP) — No one needed official evidence but it came anyway from the state of New Jersey, where people apparently really like to bet on sports. They put more than $1 billion on their favorites in September, the first time that has happened since the state legalized sports betting a little more than […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:21 AM | | BEIJING (AP) — An apparent gas explosion gutted part of a high rise in northern China on Thursday morning, killing at least three people and injuring 30. It occurred at a hotel in Shenyang, a city of more than 8 million people and a major industrial center that is in the process of renovating and […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:18 AM | | MAHBAS REGION, Western Sahara (AP) — As a glowing sun sank behind the sandy barrier that cuts across the disputed territory of Western Sahara, Sidati Ahmed's battalion launched two missiles that sizzled through the air and then followed with an artillery attack. Within minutes, a barrage of mortar shells flew in the opposite direction, from […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:53 AM | | SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's military said Thursday it will appeal a landmark court ruling that struck down its decision to discharge the country's first known transgender soldier before she was found dead earlier this year. A local district court ruled this month that the military unlawfully discriminated against the soldier by forcing […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:51 AM | | WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's new governor-general said Thursday she plans to reach out to people marginalized by issues like homelessness, addiction and discrimination. Cindy Kiro is the first Indigenous woman appointed to the role as the representative of Queen Elizabeth II in the South Pacific nation. She took her oath in both […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:14 AM | | An extraordinarily rare coin with a face value of just pennies when it was minted in mid-17th century New England could sell for the equivalent of about $300,000 when it's put up for auction in London next month. The silver one shilling coin made in Boston in 1652 — considered the finest example of the […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:09 AM | | An Alabama man who avoided execution in February is scheduled to be put to death Thursday for the 1991 killing of a woman taken at gunpoint from an ATM location and shot in a cemetery. Willie B. Smith III, 52, is set to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. CDT at a southwest Alabama […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:08 AM | | LONDON (AP) — Britain and New Zealand have agreed on a trade deal that eliminates tariffs on a wide range of goods as the U.K. expands economic links around the world following its exit from the European Union. The deal was cemented late Wednesday in a conference call between U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:05 AM | | WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday donated its 200 millionth COVID-19 shot to help vaccinate the rest of the world, the White House announced. The Biden administration aims to lead a global vaccination campaign even as it rolls out boosters for domestic use, which critics say diverts doses from those who are in greater […]
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| | The Province Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:04 AM | | With the win, the Whitecaps (11-9-10) vaulted past Real Salt Lake into seventh place and the West's final playoff berth
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| | Calgary Sun Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:19 AM | | The Calgary Flames, like many of us, will never take the ability to travel for granted. The COVID-19 pandemic pulled that first-world luxury away from society — briefly, for some, and still ongoing for others — when the world was forced to change in every way imaginable, trying to take control of the coronavirus which […]
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