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Raptors Uprising GC sends all-star centre to Hornets Venom GT in major esports trade
TORONTO - Raptors Uprising GC traded away one of the pillars of its NBA 2K League perfect regular season in 2020, sending all-star centre Jerry (Sick One) Knapp to Hornets Venom GT for centre Xavier (...
Nov 14, 2020
Missing Vancouver Island couple, dog found alive after spending night in truck
NANAIMO, B.C. - Police say a Vancouver Island couple that went missing earlier this week has been found alive. Mounties say Cody Martin and Tamara Sandulak, along with their black lab-cross dog Rex, w...
Nov 14, 2020
Nova Scotia RCMP say man faces assault charges in violent clash at lobster pound
NEW EDINBURGH, N.S. - A 74-year-old Nova Scotia man has been charged in relation to a violent clash last month at a lobster pound in the southwestern part of the province, police announced on Saturday...
Nov 14, 2020
Romania: 10 die in fire at COVID-19 intensive care unit
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanian officials say a fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients has killed 10 people and critically injured seven others. The blaze spread through the intensive care ward d...
Nov 14, 2020
As setbacks beset Trump's efforts to contest election, supporters gather in D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Throngs of Die-hard Donald Trump supporters packed the streets of the United states capital today in solidarity with the president's efforts to defy last week's election results.Ten...
Nov 14, 2020
Canadian Vasek Pospisil loses to young Italian in final of ATP Tour's Sofia Open
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil has fallen one win short of capturing his first career ATP Tour title. The 30-year-old Pospisil lost 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, to 19-year-old Italian Jannik Sinner in...
Nov 14, 2020
Austria shuts schools, most stores, to curb spread of virus
BERLIN - Austria announced Saturday that it is tightening its partial lockdown, including by closing non-essential stores and shifting schools to online teaching, amid galloping coronavirus infection ...
Nov 14, 2020
Kamloops Storm open season with 3-2 OT win over Chase Heat
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Storm opened the 54th KIJHL season last night with a 3-2 overtime win over the Chase Heat. Lex Friesen and Peyton Kelly both scored for the Storm in the third period, while Zak...
Nov 14, 2020
India celebrates Diwali amid pandemic, pollution fears
NEW DELHI - More than a billion Indians celebrated Diwali on Saturday amid twin concerns of a resurgence in coronavirus infections and rising air pollution that is enveloping the country's north in a ...
Nov 14, 2020
Armenians torch their homes on land ceded to Azerbaijan
KALBAJAR, Azerbaijan - In a bitter farewell to his home of 21 years, Garo Dadevusyan wrenched off its metal roof and prepared to set the stone house on fire. Thick smoke poured from houses that his ne...
Nov 14, 2020
