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• An attack at a festival in a German city leaves dead and wounded, report says

  23-08-2024 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BERLIN (AP) — People were killed and injured in an attack on Friday at a festival in the Germany city of Solingen in western Germany, the news agency dpa reported.
  It wasn’t immediately clear how many casualties there were. The dpa report cited unidentified police sources as saying the weapon was believed to be a knife.The Associated Press
  
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• Manifest destiny: Langley teens who chanted for Taylor Swift tickets get their wish

  23-08-2024 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A pair of British Columbia sisters who lit candles and chanted affirmations in a bid to “manifest” tickets to see their idol Taylor Swift in Vancouver are going to get their wish.
  Thirteen-year-old Chloe and 16-year-old Cadence Harding of Langley were featured in a story by The Canadian Press last November about their efforts, that failed to produce the precious codes needed to buy tickets to Swift’s December concerts in B.C.
  But now the teens are celebrating
  
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• Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will appear on Nebraska’s November ballot

  23-08-2024 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska voters will chose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban — a development likely to drive more voters to the polls in a state that could see one of its five electoral votes up for grabs in the hotly contested presidential race.
  Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen announced Friday that the rival initiatives each gathered enough signatures to get on the November ballot, making it t
  
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• Michigan man sentenced to life in 2-year-old’s kidnapping death

  23-08-2024 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who pleaded guilty in the kidnapping and killing his former girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
  According to prosecutors, Rashad Trice got into an argument with his ex-girlfriend at her Lansing apartment in July 2023. She stabbed Trice, who responded by stabbing her multiple times and sexually assaulting her. He then left.
  The woman went to her mother’s apartment in the same complex, leaving her 1-ye
  
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• Manifest destiny: B.C. teens who chanted for Taylor Swift tickets get their wish

  23-08-2024 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A pair of British Columbia sisters who lit candles and chanted affirmations in a bid to “manifest” tickets to see their idol Taylor Swift in Vancouver are going to get their wish.
  Thirteen-year-old Chloe and 16-year-old Cadence Harding of Langley, B.C., were featured in a story by The Canadian Press last November about their efforts, that failed to produce the precious codes needed to buy tickets to Swift’s December concerts in B.C.
  But now the teens are celeb
  
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• Nelly Korda regains dominant form to lead Women’s British Open by 3 shots at the home of golf

  23-08-2024 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Nelly Korda looks to be back to her dominant best at the home of golf.
  The top-ranked American mastered more blustery conditions at St. Andrews by shooting a bogey-free, 4-under 68 in the second round on Friday to take a three-stroke lead at the Women’s British Open.
  Korda won the first women’s major of 2024 — the Chevron Championship in April — and is on track to capture the last one, too. There have also been five more titles in a year
  
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• 3 Detroit-area mall guards not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in man’s death in 2014

  23-08-2024 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Three security guards who held a man to the floor at a Detroit-area mall in 2014 were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter on his death on Friday in a case that was reopened years later by state prosecutors.
  McKenzie Cochran, who had an enlarged heart, repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe,” while five guards restrained him at Northland Center, following a trouble call to security by a mall tenant, witnesses said.
  The struggle was recorded on dark, grainy mall
  
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• Chilliwack-based Petcurean celebrating 25 years, donating 250K meals to pets across Canada - Chilliwack Progress

  23-08-2024 22:30 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack-based Petcurean celebrating 25 years, donating 250K meals to pets across Canada  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Prosecutor says ex-sheriff’s deputy charged with manslaughter in shooting of an airman at his home

  23-08-2024 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CRESTVIEW, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Panhandle sheriff’s deputy is facing a charge of manslaughter with a firearm in connection with the fatal shooting an airman who opened his apartment door while holding a gun.Former Okaloosa County deputy Eddie Duran was charged Thursday in the May 3 shooting death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson, Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille said Thursday. That is a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.Marcille said a warrant has been i
  
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• A 2nd ex-Memphis officer pleads guilty to civil rights violations in the killing of Tyre Nichols

  23-08-2024 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A second former Memphis police officer pleaded guilty Friday to civil rights violations in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, leaving three officers heading to trial in federal court next month.
  Emmitt Martin entered his change of plea before U.S. District Judge Mark Norris in Memphis under an agreement with prosecutors, delivering another twist in the case that sparked outrage and calls for police reform. The judge had set a Monday deadline for any plea agreemen
  
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• Remains found nearly 20 years ago in Ontario identified as Chilliwack woman - Abbotsford News

  23-08-2024 21:41 via news.google.com
  Remains found nearly 20 years ago in Ontario identified as Chilliwack woman  Abbotsford News
  
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• Yukon prepares for busy, expensive few months at site of ore slide before freeze-up

  23-08-2024 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — Officials say crews on the site of a major cyanide spill at a mine in central Yukon are facing an intense period of work over the next few months to install environmental protection before winter freeze-up arrives.
  Victoria Gold, the owner of the Eagle Gold mine, 480 kilometres north of Whitehorse, was put into court-ordered receivership last week, after the mine’s heap leach pad failed and about two million tonnes of cyanide-laced rock broke through containment in June.
  
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• Remains found nearly 20 years ago in Ontario identified as Chilliwack woman - Chilliwack Progress

  23-08-2024 21:36 via news.google.com
  Remains found nearly 20 years ago in Ontario identified as Chilliwack woman  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Lions, Redblacks meet in battle of second-place teams moving in different directions

  23-08-2024 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — On paper the Ottawa Redblacks and B.C. Lions appear to be headed in opposite directions.
  The Redblacks (6-2-1) are undefeated in their last five games, while the Lions (5-5-0) are mired in a four-game losing streak.
  Despite their respective success and struggles, both teams sit second in their division. The Lions are just one point back of Saskatchewan in the West, while Ottawa trails Montreal, first overall, by five points in the East.
  When the teams meet Saturday night at TD Pla
  
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• Trump-backed Alaska Republican withdraws from US House race after third-place finish in primary

  23-08-2024 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, withdrew from the race for Alaska’s lone seat in the U.S. House on Friday after finishing third in this week’s primary.
  Her decision left second-place finisher Republican Nick Begich as the main challenger to Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, who is the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress.
  The three were the most prominent candidates in a field of 12 running for the sea
  
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• A body found 19 years ago in southern Ontario identified as Chilliwack woman – death deemed suspicious

  23-08-2024 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GUELPH — Police say they have identified the body of a woman who was found dead near Guelph, Ont., nearly two decades ago and have deemed her death suspicious.
  Ontario Provincial Police say human remains were found by a pedestrian in August 2005 between the community of Rockwood and Guelph, and DNA technology has now identified those as belonging to Tammy Eileen Penner.
  Police say Penner, who was from Chilliwack, was 41 years old when she was reported missing to the RCMP in February 2005.
  
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• Chilliwack outdoor book sale moves inside due to rain in forecast - Chilliwack Progress

  23-08-2024 20:41 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack outdoor book sale moves inside due to rain in forecast  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack outdoor book sale moves inside due rain in forecast - Chilliwack Progress

  23-08-2024 20:41 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack outdoor book sale moves inside due rain in forecast  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack outdoor book sale moves inside due to rain in forecast - Mission City Record

  23-08-2024 20:35 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack outdoor book sale moves inside due to rain in forecast  Mission City Record
  
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• Ahead of speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says in a Pennsylvania court filing that he’s endorsing Trump

  23-08-2024 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign said in a Pennsylvania court filing Friday that he is endorsing Donald Trump for president.
  The campaign also requested that he be removed from the Pennsylvania ballot, though it was not immediately clear that he was officially dropping out of the race. It came a day after he sought to be removed from Arizona’s ballot. He is running as an independent.
  Kennedy is set to speak in Arizona shortly “about the present historical m
  
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• CF Montreal returns to MLS action after busy summer transfer window

  23-08-2024 20:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal’s roster is full of new faces since the last time the club took the pitch in Major League Soccer.
  Montreal returns to MLS action against the New England Revolution on Saturday night at Saputo Stadium after a month-long break for the Leagues Cup — and a busy summer transfer window.
  “It’s just the way the transfer window goes,” defender Joel Waterman said Friday. “We knew there was going to be some changes, some key guys that had som
  
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• Chilliwack woman identified as woman found 19 year old in southern Ontario – death deemed suspicious - Fraser Valley Today

  23-08-2024 20:11 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack woman identified as woman found 19 year old in southern Ontario – death deemed suspicious  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Police in Prince George stumble on biggest drug haul in city’s history: RCMP

  23-08-2024 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Mounties say that officers investigating a break and enter in Prince George, B.C., stumbled on what turned out to be the biggest haul of illicit drugs in the city’s history.
  RCMP say the officers were responding to the break-and-enter report on Wednesday when they noticed a large number of counterfeit cigarettes on the premises.
  They say a search warrant was obtained, and investigators seized nearly 40 kilograms of illicit drugs, including suspected fentanyl, co
  
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• Chilliwack woman identified as woman found 19 year old in southern Ontario – death deemed suspicious

  23-08-2024 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GUELPH — Police say they have identified the body of a woman who was found dead near Guelph, Ont., nearly two decades ago and have deemed her death suspicious.Ontario Provincial Police say human remains were found by a pedestrian in August 2005 between the community of Rockwood and Guelph, and DNA technology has now identified those as belonging to Tammy Eileen Penner.Police say Penner, who was from Chilliwack, was 41 years old when she was reported missing to the RCMP in February 2005.Inv
  
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• Conservatives maintain silence as strife continues between union, railways

  23-08-2024 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As rail workers push back on the Liberal government’s effort to end a labour dispute, the federal Conservatives remain silent on the strife that poses a major threat to Canada’s economy.
  Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon asked the Canadian Industrial Relations Board on Thursday to impose binding arbitration after Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 employees.NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh slammed the government’s decision
  
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• Scenic highway in Jasper National Park reopened as wildfire continues to be held

  23-08-2024 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JASPER, ALTA. — One of Canada’s most scenic highways has reopened as the wildfire in Jasper National Park continues to be held.
  Jane Park, incident commander with Parks Canada, says Highway 93, also known as the Icefields Parkway, is now open to through traffic.But she warns travellers must head straight through the mountain- and glacier-lined road without stopping.She says there are no services available on the highway between the town of Jasper and the Icefields Discovery Centre an
  
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• AHL mandates cut-resistant neckwear for players and officials starting in 2024-25

  23-08-2024 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SPRINGFIELD — The American Hockey League has mandated the use of cut-resistant neck protection by all of its players and on-ice officials.
  The ruling goes into effect for the start of the upcoming 2024-25 season.It was unanimously voted on by the AHL’s board of governors.
  Cut-resistant socks and wrist sleeves were previously mandated for AHL players and officials beginning with the 2023-24 season.
  The AHL is among a list of organizations and leagues to go through with such a mandate,
  
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• B.C. crews move to ‘mop up’ stage on many wildfires, drought persists in the north

  23-08-2024 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia’s wildfire service says rain and cooler temperatures have helped crews turn the corner on a number of larger blazes, especially in the south.
  The latest bulletin from the service says several fires in that region are now classified as under control or “being held” within their existing perimeters.
  The service says many fires are in the “mop-up” stage, when crews move in to douse the edges of a blaze with water in order to fully contain it.
  Still, it
  
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• UFV Cascades men's soccer team opens season tonight in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  23-08-2024 19:32 via news.google.com
  UFV Cascades men's soccer team opens season tonight in Abbotsford  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Tensions linger as students prep for return to campus after pro-Palestinian protests

  23-08-2024 18:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — As students prepare to head back to post-secondary campuses for the fall term, tensions sparked by the pro-Palestinian protest encampments that cropped up at several Ontario universities over the summer break are lingering on for some.Several students who supported or participated in the protests say they’re disappointed in how their schools handled the encampments, while some Jewish students say they’re anxious about returning to campuses where conversations about th
  
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• The latest developments in the labour dispute at Canada’s two biggest railways

  23-08-2024 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal government is intervening in a countrywide work stoppage at Canada’s two biggest railways, but railworkers are pushing back against Ottawa’s move to get them back on the job.
  In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers in the early hours of Thursday.
  Here are the latest developments on the rail stoppage (all times are ET):
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• Rail stoppage: Montreal commuters eye alternatives as trains halted for second day

  23-08-2024 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — More than 20,000 Montreal commuters are again being forced to find alternative ways to get to work because of a work stoppage at Canada’s two biggest railways that has halted trains for a second consecutive day.Commuter service Exo has suspended service on the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme and Candiac lines, all of which use tracks owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.
  Canada’s labour minister has asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to impo
  
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• Texas, other GOP-led states sue over program to give immigrant spouses of US citizens legal status

  23-08-2024 18:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Opponents are suing to end a federal program that could potentially give nearly half a million immigrants without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens a path to citizenship.
  Sixteen Republican-led states filed suit Friday to halt the program launched by President Joe Biden in June, saying in court filings that the Biden administration bypassed Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for “blatant political purposes.”
  Under the policy, which started taking applications Mon
  
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• Police ID woman whose body found near Guelph 19 years ago, deem death suspicious

  23-08-2024 18:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Police say they have identified the body of a woman who was found dead near Guelph, Ont., nearly two decades ago and have deemed her death suspicious.Ontario Provincial Police say human remains were found by a pedestrian in August 2005 between the community of Rockwood and Guelph, and DNA technology has now identified those as belonging to Tammy Eileen Penner.Police say Penner, who was from Chilliwack, B.C., was 41 years old when she was reported missing to the RCMP in February 2005.Investigator
  
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• B.C.’s West Coast Express commuter train still suspended as work stoppage continues

  23-08-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Riders of the West Coast Express in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland must continue using alternatives after the first-ever simultaneous work stoppage on Canada’s two major railways halted service on the commuter line.
  Ottawa has asked for binding arbitration in the dispute involving the rail workers’ union, Canadian National Railway Co., and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.
  CN has since ended its lockout of workers and trains began moving this morning, even as the Teamsters C
  
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• Sounds of silence in Chilliwack as train whistling ends - Chilliwack Progress

  23-08-2024 17:54 via news.google.com
  Sounds of silence in Chilliwack as train whistling ends  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Montreal-area mayors say Quebec government has not delivered on promised flood relief

  23-08-2024 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A group of mayors from the Montreal region says the Quebec government has fallen short of its promise to increase financial aid for victims of torrential rain that hit the province earlier this month.Last week, Quebec Premier François Legault suggested the province would expand its disaster assistance program to include sewer backups, which are typically covered by private insurance.But this week, the government says only people whose sewers backed up because of flooding
  
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• Listeria outbreak linked to plant-based milks appears to be slowing: PHAC

  23-08-2024 17:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Public Health Agency of Canada says a Listeria outbreak linked to several plant-based milks appears to be slowing down, with no new cases reported in the last two weeks.However, the federal agency’s director of outbreak management says they won’t be comfortable declaring the outbreak over until early October due to Listeria’s incubation period, which can last up to 70 days, and the reporting delay that accompanies new cases.April Hexemer says the last tally of cases reporte
  
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• Wellington County OPP identify remains found in 2005 as missing Chilliwack, B.C. woman - Global News Toronto

  23-08-2024 17:27 via news.google.com
  Wellington County OPP identify remains found in 2005 as missing Chilliwack, B.C. woman  Global News Toronto
  
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• Wellington County OPP identify remains found in 2005 as missing Chilliwack, B.C. woman - Global News

  23-08-2024 17:27 via news.google.com
  Wellington County OPP identify remains found in 2005 as missing Chilliwack, B.C. woman  Global News
  
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• ‘Making history’: Kamala Harris becomes first Black woman to lead major-party ticket

  23-08-2024 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO — Kamala Harris is officially the first Black and South Asian woman to lead a major-party ticket after formally accepting the Democratic party’s nomination Thursday.
  If elected, she would become the first female U.S. president.
  The history-making final night of the convention saw the vice-president give her keynote speech in front of a sea of supporters dressed in suffragette white — symbolizing when American women secured the right to vote in 1920.
  “I am so inspi
  
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• Judge declines to dismiss murder case against Karen Read after July mistrial

  23-08-2024 16:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — A judge ruled that Karen Read can be re-tried for murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, dismissing arguments that jurors came forward after the mistrial to say they had unanimously agreed she wasn’t guilty on two of the three charges she faced.Read is accused of ramming into John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a January 2022 snowstorm. Her two-month trial ended in July when jurors declared they were hopelessly deadloc
  
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• Boston Bar water system to undergo system interruption next week: FVRD

  23-08-2024 16:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON BAR— The Fraser Valley Regional District says it will be conducting leak detection on the Boston Bar water system overnight on Wednesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 29, 2024.As part of the leak detection activities, residents and business owners in Boston Bar are asked by the regional district to anticipate water service interruptions and pressure fluctuations from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m.
  If Boston Bar residents have questions or concerns, they are asked to email the FVRD engineeri
  
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• What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Aug. 23 onward - Chilliwack Progress

  23-08-2024 14:35 via news.google.com
  What's happening Chilliwack: List of events from Aug. 23 onward  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• AP Source: Biden to dispatch adviser to China as he looks to sharpen policy focus in final months

  23-08-2024 14:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUELLTON, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to dispatch his national security adviser Jake Sullivan to China as the White House aims to sharpen its focus on foreign policy in the Democrat’s final months in office.
  Sullivan’s visit to meet with his counterpart, Wang Yi, is expected to take place next week, according to a person familiar with planning for the trip who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The White House is expected to announced plans for the trip later toda
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP arrest one in connection with racist social media posts - MSN

  23-08-2024 13:39 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack RCMP arrest one in connection with racist social media posts  MSN
  
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• Canada’s men’s rugby team taking new-found confidence into Pacific Nations Cup

  23-08-2024 13:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A new atmosphere permeates Canada’s men’s rugby team these days — one of confidence.
  Belief bubbled up when the squad downed world No. 20 Romania in Ottawa last month and it lingers as the 21st-ranked Canadians begin their Pacific Nations Cup quest in Vancouver on Sunday.
  “I think (confidence) is probably something we’ve lacked in years past due to a number of different factors,” captain Lucas Rumball said Thursday. “But I think we need
  
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• Last body from sunken superyacht has been found off Sicily, Italian Coast Guard says

  23-08-2024 12:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard said the body of the final missing person who was on a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily has been found in the wreckage.
  The woman’s body was detected on Friday. She has not been identified, but Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, is reportedly unaccounted for. The Lynch family was aboard The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, when went down in a storm early Monday.
  
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• Ilkay Gundogan returns for unlikely second spell at Man City after just a year at Barcelona

  23-08-2024 12:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ilkay Gundogan is back at Manchester City for a sequel few could have expected.
  A year after leaving for Barcelona, the former Germany midfielder completed his unlikely return to City on Friday on a free transfer and a season-long deal.
  The 33-year-old Gundogan, who has the option of a further season at City, was the captain when Pep Guardiola’s team captured the Premier League- FA Cup -Champions League treble in the 2022-23 campaign.
  That confirmed his place in the growing pantheon of Cit
  
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• Several injured or missing after a bus carrying dozens of Indian pilgrims drives off a Nepal highway

  23-08-2024 10:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus carrying dozens of Indian pilgrims drove off a highway Friday in Nepal, leaving several people injured or missing.
  The bus veered off the highway and rolled toward a fast-flowing river, stopping on the rocky bank.
  The top part of the bus had been ripped but the wreckage did not plunge into the Marsyangdi river.The Associated Press
  
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