| | Friday, October 22, 2021 1:11 AM | | News of the remittance will likely bring relief to investors and regulators worried about a default's wider fallout in global financial markets.
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| | Toronto Sun Friday, October 22, 2021 2:00 AM | | Gary Varvel
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 2:37 AM | | OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Longtime U.S. rowing coach Mike Teti, who has been criticized by some of his former athletes as being emotionally abusive and using physical intimidation, has resigned but immediately accepted a position funded by a large donor leading a new high-performance training club that still has ties to the national program. The […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 2:36 AM | | TOKYO (AP) — Japan adopted a new energy policy on Friday that promotes nuclear and renewables as sources of clean energy to achieve the country's pledge of reaching carbon neutrality in 2050. The new basic energy plan, adopted by the Cabinet just in time for the climate summit in early November, calls for drastically increasing […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 2:24 AM | | The results are in and what happens now was inevitable. The top 76 players in NBA history have been announced , with the full 75th anniversary team having been revealed by the league. Now the debate begins to decide who must have been No. 77. Vince Carter, Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard, Bernard King all are […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 2:22 AM | | NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (AP) — As she stood in the courtyard of the morgue holding the body of her grandmother who died of COVID-19, Ramilya Shigalturina had a message for anyone still resisting vaccinations. "I'm begging all Russians: Please get vaccinated, because it's really dreadful and dangerous," said the resident of Nizhny Novgorod, the country's […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 2:00 AM | | Millions more Americans just became eligible for COVID-19 boosters but figuring out who's eligible and when can be confusing — and adding to the challenge is that this time around, people can get a different type of vaccine for that extra dose. A number of factors, including the vaccine you started with and when your […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 1:56 AM | | UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar has warned that February's military takeover has led to armed conflict and if power isn't returned to the people in a democratic way the country "will go in the direction of a failed state." Christine Schraner Burgener told a U.N. news conference Thursday that conflict […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 1:39 AM | | Asian shares were mixed Friday after a late-in-the-day wave of buying pushed the S&P 500 to a fresh record high. Benchmarks rose in Hong Kong and Tokyo but fell in Sydney and Shanghai. An official newspaper, the Securities Times, said China Evergrande Group made an overdue bond payment on Friday. The property developer's struggle to […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 1:13 AM | | BOSTON (AP) — For several years, the Miami-Dade County Pubic Schools had toyed with replacing some of its 1,000 diesel buses with cleaner electric vehicles. But school leaders said the change would be too costly. Then 12-year-old student Holly Thorpe showed up at a school board meeting to tout the benefits of going electric and […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 1:03 AM | | BEIJING (AP) — Police in China's capital Beijing say famed international pianist Li Yundi is a suspect in a prostitution case. A message on the force's microblog said a suspect had been placed in administrative detention and an investigation opened on Thursday involving a woman identified by her surname Chen and a man named as […]
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| | CityNews Toronto Friday, October 22, 2021 1:01 AM | | NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, one of the country's once-prominent female leaders — a former parliament member, candidate for president and a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize — is visiting the United Nations, not as a representative of her government but as a woman in exile. […]
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| | Windsor Star Friday, October 22, 2021 1:19 AM | | While a pair of Windsor Spitfire rookies celebrated firsts, veteran defenceman Louka Henault was trying to recover after his milestone achievement. In his overage season, Henault produced his first hat-trick performance in his 172nd career game, but didn't see the finish as the Windsor Spitfires 7-4 beat the Owen Sound Attack before 2,780 at the […]
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| | Windsor Star Friday, October 22, 2021 1:14 AM | | Emotions were still swirling for Nathan Ribau on Thursday as he took the ice for the first time for the Windsor Spitfires. It had barely been two days since the 19-year-old defenceman was traded from the Sudbury Wolves to the Spitfires and barely 24 hours since Ribau made a brief stop as his family's home […]
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| | The Province Friday, October 22, 2021 1:32 AM | | The Canucks got goals when they needed them and locked the game down well in the final frame to take the victory
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| | Vancouver Sun Friday, October 22, 2021 2:13 AM | | An interim, "progressive" policy requiring Vancouver police officers to reconsider handcuffing those accused of crimes was approved by the Vancouver police board on Thursday. "This is going to be a progressive route (in comparison) to other departments across the country," said Deputy Chief Howard Chow. Other Canadian police departments' handcuffing policies are "minimalistic," outlined in […]
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