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• Xi meets Russia’s Putin on a state visit to China that’s a show of unity between the allies

  16-05-2024 05:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIJING (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at an official ceremony Thursday as he opened a state visit to China.
  Putin’s visit comes as Russia has become more economically dependent on China following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.
  Putin is expected to have meetings with his counterpart Xi Jinping and other top officials that will emphasize their commitment to the “no limits” rela
  
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• Lexi Thompson makes a tearful exit from U.S. Women’s Open

  01-06-2024 02:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Lexi Thompson stood off to the side of the ninth green after hitting what could be her final stroke — a three-inch bogey putt — in the U.S. Women’s Open. It was just like any other round until she headed toward the scoring room.“We’ll miss you, Lexi,” one fan yelled above the applause.
  This isn’t the way she wanted to leave — a 78 in the opening round Thursday, four straight bogeys around the turn Friday that doomed any
  
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• David Hearn makes cut at RBC Canadian Open after long PGA Tour layoff

  01-06-2024 01:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — It’s been six long months since David Hearn played in a PGA Tour event. It’s been even longer since the 44-year-old Canadian made a cut.
  But he will tee it up in the third round of the RBC Canadian Open on Saturday.
  Hearn was the low Canadian on Thursday after a 3-under 67 round but then he laboured to a 3-over score on Friday to make the even-par cut and return to the third round of a PGA Tour event.“It certainly wasn’t what I was looking for but with as
  
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• Vancouver Police arrest 14 pro-Palestinian protesters for blocking rail lines

  01-06-2024 01:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police say they have arrested 14 people at a protest by pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were blocking rail lines in East Vancouver.
  Cst. Tania Visintin says protesters who were blocking the Canadian National Railway lines refused multiple requests to move and some “became hostile” with officers.
  She says in a statement that more than three hours after police were called, 14 protesters were arrested for mischief and obstruction at 2:30 p.m.Visintin says investigato
  
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• Simoneau wins solo technical gold in World Cup artistic swimming

  01-06-2024 01:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MARKHAM, Ont. — Jacqueline Simoneau, who calls the Montreal suburb of Chambly home, won the women’s solo technical gold medal at the World Aquatics artistic swimming World Cup on Friday.
  The 27-year-old Simoneau finished with 246.7950 points at the Pan Am Pool, finishing ahead of China’s Huiyan Xu (244.2050) and Viktoria Reichova (203.2616) of Slovakia.
  Kyra Hoevertsz of Aruba was fourth at 183.4433, Karina Magrupova of Kazakhstan was fifth at 162.8166 and Mya Fortin of Gatinea
  
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• Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

  01-06-2024 01:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. She was 86.
  Mrs. Robinson’s death was announced by Michelle Obama and other family members in a statement that said “there was and will be only one Marian Robinson. In our sadness, we are lifted up by the extraordinary gift of her life.”
  She was a widow and lifelong Chicago resident when sh
  
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• Priestman wants Canadian players to be themselves while pushing for Olympic spots

  01-06-2024 00:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Bev Priestman’s message to her squad during the international window is clear: just be yourself.
  The Canadian women’s national soccer team coach doesn’t want her players to put additional pressure on themselves as they fight for roster spots in two upcoming pre-Olympic friendlies against Mexico.
  The No. 9-ranked Canadians host No. 31 Mexico on Saturday afternoon at Montreal’s Saputo Stadium before a rematch on Tuesday at Toronto’s BMO Field.
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• Whitecaps look to capture road momentum for home game against Rapids

  31-05-2024 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — It hasn’t been an easy month for the Vancouver Whitecaps.Between Major League Soccer play and a bid to defend their Canadian Championship title, the ‘Caps are playing nine games in six cities in 29 days.
  Now Vanni Sartini is asking his players to make one final push before next week’s international break. He wants the team to once again give its all when Vancouver (6-5-4) hosts the Colorado Rapids (6-6-4) on Saturday.“Put everything that you have in your
  
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• Florida sheriff’s office fires deputy who fatally shot Black airman at home

  31-05-2024 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground.Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 after responding to a domestic violence call and being directed to Fortson’s apartment.Body camera video shows that when the deputy arrived outside Fortson’s door, he stood silently for 20 seconds outside and listened, but no voices inside a
  
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• Blue Jays starter Alek Manoah placed on 15-day injured list with right elbow sprain

  31-05-2024 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays starter Alek Manoah was placed on the 15-day injured list Friday due to a right elbow sprain and was scheduled for an in-person evaluation with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Keith Meister next week.The 26-year-old right-hander, who missed the first five weeks of the season due to right shoulder inflammation, was removed in the second inning of Wednesday’s 3-1 win in Chicago after experiencing discomfort in his throwing arm.“Alek’s MRI revealed a right
  
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• Cowan fuelled by critics as he aims to keep proving them wrong at Memorial Cup

  31-05-2024 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAGINAW — Easton Cowan’s big-game reputation has only grown this season, but he’s had some added motivation pushing him to another level.
  The star right-winger of the London Knights was drafted in the first round (28th overall) in last year’s NHL draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, going higher than he was projected to go.
  In his only full season with London, he tallied 53 points (20 goals, 33 assists) in 68 regular-season games in 2022-23. He added 21 points (nine goals, 1
  
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• Canadian boxer Mckenzie Wright moves on at Olympic boxing qualifier in Bangkok

  31-05-2024 22:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BANGKOK — Canadian boxer Mckenzie Wright won a 5-0 decision over Argentina’s Aldana Florencia Lopez on Friday to advance to the round of eight in the women’s 50-kilogram division at a last-ditch Olympic qualifier.
  The 33-year-old from St. Davids, Ont., whose opponent was a bronze medallist at the 2022 IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships, meets Serbia’s Nina Radovanovic on Saturday.
  But Sara Kali, a 32-year-old from Montreal, lost her round-of-eight bout 5-0 to Ca
  
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• BC United caucus chair Lorne Doerkson defects to Conservatives

  31-05-2024 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The caucus chair for the BC United party is defecting to the BC Conservatives, adding to the woes of the province’s official opposition.
  Lorne Doerkson, who represents Cariboo-Chilcotin, and BC Conservative Leader John Rustad announced the move that increases the party’s numbers in the legislature to three.
  The move comes after talks between the two right-of-centre parties broke down amid failure to settle on a deal to avoid vote splitting in the fall provincial elec
  
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• BC United MLA defects, joins BC Conservatives

  31-05-2024 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The B.C. Conservative Party welcomed its third MLA to the party Friday (May 31) following the defection of Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Lorne Doerkson from BC United.
  According to a news release from the party, Doerkson was first elected as MLA for Cariboo-Chilcotin in 2020. Doerkson, a long-time resident of the Cariboo-Chilcotin, has a diverse professional background. He spent 20 years in the newspaper industry, followed by roles in the automobile industry and financial services as a
  
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• Toronto FC gets Laryea back but no firm word on Insigne’s availability for D.C. game

  31-05-2024 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC gets Richie Laryea back after a three-month injury absence but Lorenzo Insigne’s status is uncertain ahead of Saturday’s game at D.C. United.
  Insigne missed Wednesday’s scoreless draw in Philadelphia to be back in Naples, Italy, for the birth of his third son, Mattia.
  “We’re doing everything we can on our side (to get him back). He is as well,” coach John Herdman said Friday. “There’s just one little wrinkle we’re trying to get ove
  
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• Serial killer Robert Pickton dies following prison assault

  31-05-2024 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUÉBEC — Serial killer Robert Pickton has died after he was assaulted in prison earlier this month, Quebec provincial police and Correctional Service Canada say.
  The correctional service says Pickton, an inmate at Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec, died on Friday at the age of 74.
  It says in a statement that Pickton’s next of kin have been notified as well as victims who had registered to be told.
  It says an investigation is underway into the May 19 assault that involved anot
  
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• Woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to murder Connecticut mom

  31-05-2024 21:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — A woman convicted of helping her boyfriend plot and cover up the murder of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, during contentious divorce and child custody proceedings in Connecticut was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday.
  A state judge in Stamford handed down the punishment to Michelle Troconis in the 2019 disappearance of Dulos, whose body has never been found since she disappeared from her New Canaan home.
  Troconis, 49, was convicted in March of conspiracy to
  
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• Yuka Saso and Minjee Lee set a target below par at tough Women’s Open

  31-05-2024 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Minjee Lee and Yuka Saso, recent champions of the strongest test of golf, set the target Friday morning with a few mistakes, a few birdies and a steady diet of pars to share the lead midway through the second round of the U.S. Women’s Open.
  Lee, whose two majors include a Women’s Open at Pine Needles two years ago, made consecutive bogeys at the turn and then played mistake-free the rest of the way for a 1-under 69 at Lancaster Country Club.
  Saso, the Wome
  
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• NBA’s Mavs and NHL’s Stars chase a Dallas double with their deepest playoff run together

  31-05-2024 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Dereck Lively II of the Dallas Mavericks tossed the question back at the reporter when the rookie centre was asked if he knew why so many fans shouted “Stars” during the national anthem at his home games.
  “You tell me why,” Lively said, prompting the explanation that supporters of Dallas’ NBA team were offering a shout-out to fans of the NHL’s Stars, who for years have yelled their team’s nickname both times it comes up during “
  
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• US leaders invite Israel’s Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress

  31-05-2024 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, a show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Gaza.
  The invitation from House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, along with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, has been in the works for
  
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• ‘Surely the dumbest’: Tories, NDP sling mud amid squabbles over Speakers’ neutrality

  31-05-2024 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A third member of the House of Commons leadership team is in the hot seat as accusations fly over allegedly partisan online posts featuring MPs who sit in the Speaker’s chair.The squabbles over chair-holders’ neutrality — and parties’ hypocrisy — have been dominating the lead-up to a parliamentary summer break.
  Conservatives are chiding the NDP for posting the title of deputy assistant Speaker Carol Hughes on a party website near donation buttons, and for announcing
  
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• Judge approves settlement agreement for Nova Scotia’s Northern Pulp mill

  31-05-2024 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has approved a settlement agreement between the owners of the Northern Pulp mill and the Nova Scotia government.
  The agreement is the result of a court-ordered mediation that began in April 2022 as part of the company’s creditor protection proceedings.
  Under the deal approved during a hearing today by Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick, mill owner Paper Excellence has withdrawn a $450-million lawsuit against the province and will abandon pl
  
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• UVA to pay $9 million related to shooting that killed 3 football players, wounded 2 students

  31-05-2024 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday.
  The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students who died, said Kimberly Wald, an attorney with the Miami-based Haggard Law firm, which represents the estate of D’Sean Perry. The other
  
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• Stars forward Jason Robertson feeling brotherly love in Western Conference final

  31-05-2024 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS — Jason Robertson is feeling the love in the Stanley Cup playoffs.The Dallas Stars winger scored his first post-season hat trick in Game 3 of the Western Conference final earlier this week. His brother, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nick Robertson, posted a short video clip to social media in the aftermath of his older sibling celebrating a goal.The pair also chatted on the phone — hockey wasn’t the focus — ahead of Friday’s Game 5 with the Stars and Edmonton O
  
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• 1 Malaysian climber dead, 1 rescued near the top of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain

  31-05-2024 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A climber from Malaysia who was stranded for three days near the top of North America’s tallest mountain following a summit push was rescued Friday, but his partner was dead, officials said. A third member of their team had been rescued this week after descending lower on Denali in Alaska.
  After days of cloudy, windy conditions, personnel from Denali National Park and Preserve on Friday morning were able to rescue the surviving climber at 19,600 feet (5,974 mete
  
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• Canadian women’s soccer coach says foiled plan to attack Olympic matches ‘a concern’

  31-05-2024 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canadian women’s national team coach Bev Priestman says news of a foiled plan to attack soccer matches at the Paris Olympics is “a concern.”
  French authorities on Friday handed preliminary terrorism charges to an 18-year-old accused of a plot targeting spectators attending soccer games at this summer’s Olympics. The interior minister said it was the first such thwarted plot targeting the Games, which start in eight weeks as France is on its highest threat
  
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• Chilliwack family cherishes time as Valley Huskers billet, hopes more families open their doors

  31-05-2024 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack resident Brenna Ruetz has seen first-hand the multiple benefits that came when she and her family opened up their home to a Valley Huskers football player.Ruetz, whose family has been billeting for the Valley Huskers and other local sports teams for the past few years, attests to the positive impact upon her own twin boys.“Our billet boys have become our family,” said Ruetz, who is heavily involved with the Valley Huskers. “They are great mentors a
  
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• Biden says Hamas is ‘no longer capable’ of carrying out another major attack against Israel

  31-05-2024 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that Hamas is “no longer capable” of carrying out another large-scale attack on Israel as he urged Israelis and Hamas to come to a deal to release remaining hostages for an extended cease-fire.
  Biden addressed the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war as the Israeli military confirmed on Friday that its forces are now operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city.
  “This is truly a d
  
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• Biden says questioning Trump’s guilty verdicts is ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’

  31-05-2024 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that his predecessor, Donald Trump, was found guilty and “it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible, for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”
  His comments came the day after the conclusion of Trump’s criminal trial in New York, when the former president was convicted on all 34 felony charges in a hush money case stemming from the 2016 election.Biden for mon
  
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• MacIntyre takes second-round clubhouse lead at RBC Canadian Open; Hughes low Canadian

  31-05-2024 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre had a 4-under 66 to take the clubhouse lead in the second round of the RBC Canadian Open.
  He’s at 10-under overall to sit three shots clear of the pack with the afternoon wave starting to play.
  First-round leader David Skinns of England had a 1-over 71 round to drop back into a tie for second at 7 under.
  Mackenzie Hughes of nearby Dundas, Ont., fired a 6-under 64 to rocket 30 spots up the leaderboard into a tie with Skinns and others.
  The
  
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