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B.C. wildfire state of emergency hits two-week mark

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Category: Canada News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CTV News
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Today marks two weeks since raging wildfires that have displaced thousands of people British Columbia forced the province to call a state of emergency.
On Wednesday, Premier John Horgan said he would extend the order for an additional two weeks since many of the 43,000 people who had to flee their homes in the province's Interior will not yet be able to return.
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Teens from Burundi robotics team may have 'self-initiated' vanishing

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Category: Canada News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CTV News
MCLEAN, Va. - Organizers of an international robotics competition in the U.S. capital believe the disappearance of six teens from Burundi may have been "self-initiated."
As the competition was wrapping up Tuesday, their chaperone discovered his kids were missing.
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Woman to be sentenced for trying to hire hit man to kill newlywed husband

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CTV News
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A former Florida escort convicted of trying to hire a hit man to murder her newlywed husband could get up to 30 years in prison when she is sentenced Friday, perhaps ending a drawn-out case that drew notice for its startling videos and salacious characters.
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Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong sold for $1.8 million

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Category: Tech & Science
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CTV News
NEW YORK -- A bag containing traces of moon dust sold for $1.8 million at an auction on Thursday following a galactic court battle.
The collection bag, used by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the first manned mission to the moon in 1969, was sold at a Sotheby’s auction of items related to space voyages.
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China announces goal to dominate AI field by 2030

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Category: Tech & Science
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CTV News
BEIJING -- China’s government has announced a goal of becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence in just over a decade, putting political muscle behind growing investment by Chinese companies in developing self-driving cars and other advances.
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'Justine did not have to die': Minneapolis police chief addresses shooting of woman who called 911

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CBC News
The fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis, Minn., police officer responding to her 911 call "should not have happened," police Chief Janee Harteau said, adding that the officer's actions "go against who we are in the department.
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Israel limits Muslim access to Jerusalem site amid tensions

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CBC News
Israel banned Muslim men under the age of 50 from a contested Jerusalem shrine on Friday, ahead of expected protests over the installation of metal detectors there.
Police reinforcements poured into Jerusalem's Arab neighbourhoods in the morning, particularly in an around the walled Old City where the shrine is located.
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Adam West honoured at Comic-Con

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Category: Entertainment
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CTV News
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- There are typically a lot of Batmen at Comic-Con, but only one was the subject of a star-filled tribute.
Filmmaker Kevin Smith, producer James Tucker, actors Ralph Garman and Lee Meriwether and about a thousand fans paid tribute to the late Adam West at the pop-culture convention Thursday night.
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Even after Trump warning, Mueller likely to probe president's finances: reports

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's growing anxiety about the federal Russia probe has spilled into public view with his warning in a New York Times interview earlier this week that special counsel Robert Mueller would be out of bounds if he dug into the Trump family's finances.
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In South Sudan, a child soldier long thought dead comes back

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CTV News
JUBA, South Sudan -- She had no body to bury, so the grieving mother kneeled in the dirt outside her small hut, recited psalms and simply traced her finger over the uneven earth.
It was December 2015, a year after Nyayan Koang’s boy was abducted by government soldiers at the age of just 14 to fight in South Sudan’s army.
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Asian ISIS supporters galvanized by Philippine city siege: report

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
CTV News
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The attack by Islamic State group-affiliated militants on a Philippine city has galvanized its Southeast Asian supporters and spells trouble for the region, a top terrorism researcher said Friday as the occupation of Marawi nears two months despite a sustained military offensive.
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Quake damages buildings on Greek island; 2 killed, 120 hurt

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Category: World News
Created: Friday, July 21, 2017
Toronto Sun
ATHENS, Greece — A powerful earthquake shook the Greek resort island of Kos early Friday morning, damaging older and historic buildings and the main port, killing at least two people and causing more than 120 injuries, authorities said.
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