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Five stories in the news for Wednesday, August 7 --- RCMP FIND ITEMS LINKED TO MURDER SUSPECTS RCMP in Manitoba have found several items linked to two suspects wanted for killings in Br...

KABUL - A suicide car bomber targeted the police headquarters in a minority Shiite neighbourhood in western Kabul on Wednesday, setting off a huge explosion that wounded dozens of people, Afghan offic...

HONG KONG - A general strike in Hong Kong descended into citywide mayhem Monday as defiant protesters started fires outside police stations and hurled bricks and eggs at officers. After disrupting tra...

LOS ANGELES - Casting director David Rubin has been elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that bestows the Oscars. He is the first casting dire...

BEIJING - China said Wednesday it was banning Chinese movies and actors from participating in Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, one of the Asian film industry's most prestigious honours, as Beijing ramps ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump accused China of manipulating its currency after Beijing let the yuan fall to a politically sensitive level against the U.S. dollar for the first time in 11 years. ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Kevin Kiermaier scored the winning run on a wild pitch with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning Tuesday night and the Tampa Bay Rays came back from a six-run deficit to be...

DAYTON, Ohio - High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended years ago for compiling a "hit list" and a "rape list," and questioned how he could hav...

TORONTO - Ashleigh Barty of Australia is in danger of losing her world No. 1 ranking after falling 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 to American Sofia Kenin in second-round play Tuesday at the Rogers Cup. Barty wasn...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Residents of Lethbridge will have an opportunity to ask questions to a panel of experts on the ever-evolving drug situation.The exact date and time has not been set, but council appro...