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Monkeypox: Experts at AIDS conference say the current global response is not enough
MONTREAL - A panel of scientists and activists at the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal are urging worldwide governments to ramp up resources to handle the monkeypox outbreaks. The plea comes as intern...
Jul 31, 2022
England beats Germany 2-1 in European Championship final
LONDON (AP) - England beat Germany 2-1 in the final of the European Championship after extra time on Sunday to win its first major women's soccer title. Chloe Kelly scored the winning goal on a reboun...
Jul 31, 2022
Olympic champ Mitchell races to her third cycling silver of the Commonwealth Games
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom - A day after Kelsey Mitchell joked that she was "consistently silver," Canada's Olympic champion added one more. The 28-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., won silver in tr...
Jul 31, 2022
Berrios strikes out six in seven innings in Blue Jays' 4-1 victory over Tigers
TORONTO - Matt Chapman drilled a two-out, two-run homer in the second inning, and Jose Berrios struck out six in seven innings to push the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-1 win against the Detroit Tigers on ...
Jul 31, 2022
England beats Germany 2-1 in European Championship final
LONDON (AP) - England beat Germany 2-1 in the final of the European Championship after extra time on Sunday to win its first major women's soccer title. Chloe Kelly scored the winning goal on a reboun...
Jul 31, 2022
Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, dies at 88
BOSTON (AP) - Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years - the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport - and marched...
Jul 31, 2022
Liberals give themselves more time to meet five-year-old peacekeeping pledge
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is giving itself more time to fulfil a key peacekeeping promise to the UN first made five years ago. The commitment involves the provision of a 200-soldier quick reacti...
Jul 31, 2022
Spin and win: Verstappen rallies to eighth win of F1 season
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Formula One champion Max Verstappen overcame a spin and his worst starting spot of the season to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. His eighth win of the season pushed Ve...
Jul 31, 2022
Part of Beirut port silos, damaged in 2020 blast, collapses
BEIRUT (AP) - A section of Beirut's massive port grain silos, shredded in the 2020 explosion, collapsed in a huge cloud of dust on Sunday after a weekslong fire, triggered by grains that had fermented...
Jul 31, 2022
Sacred site or rallying point? The politicization of Canada's National War Memorial
OTTAWA - The sacrifices of Canadians who fought and died for democracy and freedom during the Korean War were honoured during a small ceremony last week at the National War Memorial. The ceremonial pl...
Jul 31, 2022