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• Conservative party wins Greek election, ousts left-wing PM

  07-07-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  ATHENS, Greece — Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis comfortably won Greece's parliamentary elections Sunday, delivering a stinging blow to leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after a tumultuous four years in office as the country st
  
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• 76ers sign Canadian draft pick Marial Shayok to two-way contract

  07-07-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  PHILADELPHIA — Canadian Marial Shayok signed a two-way contract with the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Shayok, from Ottawa, was selected by the 76ers with the No. 54 overall pick at the NBA draft last month.
  
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• Thornton solid through six, Gurriel goes deep in Blue Jays win over Orioles

  07-07-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Rookie Trent Thornton pitched six scoreless innings, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit his team-leading 16th home run and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-1 on Sunday to avoid a three-game series sweep.
  
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• Canadian rugby sevens men book their ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

  07-07-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  A roller-coaster rugby sevens season that started with a player strike ended in Olympic qualification for Canada's men Sunday.
  
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• Canadian men one win away from securing Olympic rugby sevens qualification

  07-07-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Canada blanked Bermuda 53-0 in semifinal play Sunday at the RF Group RAN (Rugby Americas North) Sevens to move within one win of Olympic qualification.
  
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• US wins 4th World Cup title, 2nd in a row, beats Dutch 2-0

  07-07-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  LYON, France — The United States women's soccer team was as good as American players promised — maybe even better.
  
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• Canada falls 110-92 to Serbia, finishes eighth at FIBA U19 World Cup

  07-07-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  HERAKLION, Greece — Filip Petrusev scored a game-high 25 points and added nine rebounds as Serbia downed Canada 110-92 on Sunday in the seventh-place game at the FIBA under-19 World Cup.
  
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• Brazilians mourn death of bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto

  07-07-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilians - most of them at least - on Sunday mourned the loss of João Gilberto, one of the fathers of bossa nova music, which gained worldwide popularity in the 1960s.
  
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• Brazil leader hit for cool reaction to João Gilberto's death

  07-07-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro came under fire Sunday for a lukewarm response to the death of a Brazilian cultural icon, João Gilberto, one of the fathers of bossa nova music, which gained worldwide popularity in the 1960s.
  
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• Strong quake causes panic in eastern Indonesia

  07-07-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  JAKARTA, Indonesia — A strong subsea earthquake late Sunday night caused panic in parts of eastern Indonesia and triggered a tsunami warning that was later lifted. There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties. The U.S.
  
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• 'Spider-Man' soars with $185.1M over six-day holiday weekend

  07-07-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — "Spider-Man: Far From Home" swooped in to dominate the July Fourth holiday weekend, raking in an estimated $185.1 million since opening in North America on Tuesday and earning $93.6 million from Friday to Sunday.
  
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• Indonesia issues tsunami warning after Molucca Sea quake

  07-07-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami warning after a strong earthquake struck late Sunday night in the Molucca Sea between North Sulawesi and the Maluku archipelago. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.
  
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• Mayor says new monument should reflect 'good, bad and ugly' of Canada's past

  07-07-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A city in central Ontario is calling for the return of an iconic monument to explorer Samuel de Champlain that has been a centrepiece in the city's laid-back waterfront landscape for nearly a century.
  
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• Five things to know about Canadian immigration detention centres

  07-07-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The treatment of migrants has recently been thrust into the spotlight as accounts emerge of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in American border detention facilities. Here's a look at how Canada deals with immigration detainees.
  
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• Opinion: Bill Walton, Stoned

  07-07-2019 16:23 via baytoday.ca
  Rock messaging to owner of the Senatus Icemen
  
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• Tradition versus technology: Northerners debate use of drones in caribou hunting

  07-07-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  YELLOWKNIFE — Tradition and technology are clashing on the tundra where Indigenous groups are debating the use of drones to hunt caribou.
  
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• Little Free Pantries spring up to help tackle food insecurity in Canada

  07-07-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  A little white box, the size of a kitchen cupboard, with a glass door sits atop a post in Melissa Rafael's front yard in Toronto.
  
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• Flood victims in Grand Forks, B.C., in limbo more than one year after disaster

  07-07-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  More than one year after rescuers swam from home to home in a low-income neighbourhood devastated by flooding in Grand Forks, B.C.
  
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• DUFRESNE, Rita Jeannette (née Martin)

  07-07-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  June 26, 1933 - July 6, 2019 It is with heavy hearts that the family announces Rita's passing on Saturday, July 6, 2019 at the North Bay Regional Health Centre, with her family by her side.
  
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• BEYOND LOCAL: New technologies gear up to find damaging gas leaks

  07-07-2019 15:25 via baytoday.ca
  Drones - and other innovative technologies - can be effective in detecting methane leaks
  
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• North Bay getting one pot store, but could there be another? - BayToday

  07-07-2019 14:43
  North Bay getting one pot store, but could there be another?  BayToday'There are also eight specifically for First Nations communities and I would presume then that our area would be interested in that as well'
  
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• Yemeni officials say rebels kill 10 in attacks in Hodeida

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni officials and witnesses say rebel attacks have killed at least 10 pro-government forces in the key port city of Hodeida.
  
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• US bomb from WWII defused in Germany after mass evacuation

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  FRANKFURT — A 500-kilo (1,100-pound) World War II bomb was defused near the Frankfurt headquarters of the European Central Bank hours after thousands of people were evacuated from the surrounding district Sunday.
  
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• UK ambassador called Trump administration 'clumsy and inept'

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  LONDON — Britain's ambassador to the United States described the Trump administration as "diplomatically clumsy and inept" and said he doubted it would become "substantially more normal," according to a leaked diplomatic cable published Sunday.
  
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• Top UK diplomat in USA criticizes Trump in leaked memos

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  LONDON — Leaked diplomatic cables reveal that Britain's ambassador to the United States regards President Donald Trump's administration as inept, hobbled by infighting, and unlikely to improve.
  
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• Top UK diplomat in US has harsh words on Trump government

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  LONDON — Leaked diplomatic cables published Sunday in a British newspaper reveal that Britain's ambassador to the United States described President Donald Trump's administration as "clumsy and inept" while grappling with international problems.
  
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• Tens of thousands in Hong Kong take message to mainlanders

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  HONG KONG — Tens of thousands of people, many wearing black shirts and some carrying British colonial-era flags, marched in Hong Kong on Sunday, targeting a mainland Chinese audience as a month-old protest movement showed no signs of abating.
  
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• Iraqi forces begin operation against IS along Syrian border

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  BAGHDAD — Iraq's security and paramilitary forces began Sunday a military operation along the border with Syria aimed at clearing the area of Islamic State group militants, the military said in a statement.
  
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• Greeks vote in 1st parliamentary election since bailout end

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  ATHENS, Greece — Greeks were voting Sunday in the first parliamentary election since their country emerged from three successive international bailouts still struggling with a crippling nearly decade-long financial crisis.
  
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• Greek Prime Minister Tsipras concedes defeat in election

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  ATHENS, Greece — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras conceded defeat Sunday after a partial vote count showed Greece's opposition conservatives comfortably winning the first parliamentary election since the country emerged from its international bail
  
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• Greece: Exit polls give win to conservative party leader

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  ATHENS, Greece — Exit polls in Greece's general election indicate conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis won a comfortable victory Sunday over left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
  
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• Frankfurt prepares to defuse WWII bomb, thousands evacuated

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  FRANKFURT — Thousands of people have been evacuated from a district of Frankfurt that includes the European Central Bank headquarters as authorities prepare to defuse a 500-kilo (1,100-pound) World War II bomb.
  
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• Afghan officials say car bomb kills 12, wounds scores

  07-07-2019 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  KABUL — The Taliban carried out a devastating suicide car bombing in central Afghanistan Sunday that killed 12 people and wounded over 150 others, said Afghan officials.
  
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• Iran to raise uranium enrichment beyond nuclear deal limits

  07-07-2019 10:05 via baytoday.ca
  TEHRAN, Iran — Iran announced Sunday it will raise its level of uranium enrichment, breaking another limit of its unraveling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and further heightening tensions with the U.S.
  
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• Iran steps further from nuke deal, adding pressure on Europe

  07-07-2019 10:05 via baytoday.ca
  TEHRAN, Iran — Iran increased its uranium enrichment Sunday beyond the limit allowed by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, inching its program closer toward weapons-grade levels while calling for a diplomatic solution to a crisis heightening te
  
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• Iran raises uranium enrichment beyond nuclear deal limits

  07-07-2019 10:05 via baytoday.ca
  TEHRAN, Iran — Iran increased its uranium enrichment Sunday beyond the limit allowed by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, inching its program closer toward weapons-grade levels while calling for a diplomatic solution to a crisis heightening te
  
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• Financier Jeffrey Epstein due in court over sex charges

  07-07-2019 09:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Wealthy financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is due in court following an arrest in New York on new sex-trafficking charges involving allegations that date to the early 2000s, according to law enforcement officials.
  
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• Financier Jeffrey Epstein arrested on sex charges

  07-07-2019 09:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Wealthy financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday in New York on new sex-trafficking charges involving allegations that date to the early 2000s, according to law enforcement officials.
  
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• AP Sources: Jeffrey Epstein arrested in NY on sex charges

  07-07-2019 09:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Wealthy financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday in New York on new sex-trafficking charges involving allegations that date to the early 2000s, according to law enforcement officials.
  
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• Nick Arbuckle steps up for Calgary, Stampeders beat Riders 37-10

  07-07-2019 07:05 via baytoday.ca
  REGINA — Nick Arbuckle took a page from Cody Fajardo’s book and ran with it.
  
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• Canadian women fall against England 19-17 at Super Series

  07-07-2019 07:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHULA VISTA, Calif. — The Canadian women's squad couldn't hold on before eventually falling against England 19-17 on Saturday at the Rugby Super Series. Paige Farries paced the way with two tries for the No. 4 Canadians, who led 12-0 against No.
  
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• Roughriders' mascot Gainer the Gopher changes look, goes back to what works

  07-07-2019 06:05 via baytoday.ca
  REGINA — Gainer the Gopher has tossed away the contact lenses and gone back to what works best — dark eyes.
  
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• Castillo's single off missed field goal earns Lions 18-17 win over Argos

  07-07-2019 05:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — DeVone Claybrooks' first CFL head-coaching win was anything but pretty. Sergio Castillo's single off a missed 42-yard field goal try on the final play earned B.C. an 18-17 decision over the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday night.
  
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• Police: 7 dead in multi-vehicle interstate crash in Georgia

  07-07-2019 04:05 via baytoday.ca
  ATLANTA — Seven people were killed Saturday in a chain-reaction crash on an interstate in Georgia when an SUV crossed over the median into traffic headed the other way, authorities said. Three other people were injured in the multi-vehicle accident.
  
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• Mason Toye scores twice, Minnesota United earn 3-2 win over Montreal Impact

  07-07-2019 04:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Minnesota United striker Mason Toye scored twice to give his team a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Impact at Saputo Stadium Saturday night. Impact striker Anthony Jackson-Hamel needed less than a minute to score the first goal of the game.
  
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• BEYOND LOCAL: Repeated screening key to diagnosing developmental delays in children

  07-07-2019 02:55 via baytoday.ca
  Although guidelines suggest that developmental delays, including language delays, are ideally diagnosed by age three, most diagnoses don’t occur until age four or five
  
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• Official: Small plane crash on Ole Miss golf course, 1 hurt

  07-07-2019 01:05 via baytoday.ca
  OXFORD, Miss. — The pilot of a single-engine plane was injured when the small aircraft crashed Saturday on a golf course at the University of Mississippi, authorities said.
  
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• Manslaughter conviction upheld in Joe McKnight's shooting

  07-07-2019 01:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW ORLEANS — A state appeals court has voted to uphold the manslaughter conviction of the man sentenced to 30 years in prison for fatally shooting former NFL player Joe McKnight during a road rage confrontation.
  
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• Canadian men cruise to three easy wins on Day 1 of Olympic rugby qualifier

  07-07-2019 01:05 via baytoday.ca
  GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Canada cruised to three straight victories on Day 1 of a regional Olympic rugby sevens qualifying tournament.
  
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• Brazilian bossa nova pioneer Joao Gilberto dies at 88

  07-07-2019 01:05 via baytoday.ca
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Joao Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South American nation, died Saturday, his
  
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