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WORLD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Monday, August 21, 2017 10:05 AM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 21, 2017 10:15 AM EDT Source

HELSINKI - A court in Finland has named the suspect in a stabbing rampage that killed two and wounded eight as 18-year-old Moroccan Abderrahman Mechkah, who is being treated in hospital after police shot him in the leg to subdue him in the south-western city of Turku. Source

At only 16 years old, Elisa Hategan felt alone and angry. It was 1991, and she was living with her mother in Toronto after moving to Canada from Communist Romania. “I had dropped out of high school. Source

Canadians across the country will be donning special glasses and looking to the sky to take in a partial solar eclipse today. Unlike the U.S., Canada won’t see a total solar eclipse, where the moon completely covers the sun, blacking out the sky and turning day into night momentarily. Source

Montreal police say a tourist from California is in critical condition after falling four storeys early this morning. The incident took place at a popular bar in the Gay Village in the city's downtown area. Source

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s interior minister said Monday that the country’s police intelligence played a major role in foiling a plot to bring down an Emirati passenger plane that was supposed to take off from Sydney bound for the United Arab Emirates’ capital, Abu Dhabi. Source

Winnipeg police allege a 45-year-old man robbed the same Winnipeg gas station three times in just over 24 hours between Friday and Saturday. Police said the first robbery at the gas station came at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, when the suspect allegedly wielded a knife, and stole a sum of money. Source

GOWANDA, N.Y. -- A family hike in a western New York gorge turned tragic when a mother and father died after falling off a cliff and their 4-year-old son was seriously injured, authorities said. The bodies of Amanda Green, 35, and William Green, 33, both of Buffalo, were discovered along with their injured son Alexander in the Zoar Valley Gorge shortly before 1 p.m. Source

SINGAPORE — Vessels from several nations are searching Southeast Asian waters for 10 missing U.S. sailors after an early morning collision Monday between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker ripped a gaping hole in the destroyer’s hull. Source

EDMOND, Okla. -- A convicted sex offender who molested his niece when she was 7 years old moved in next door to his victim nearly a dozen years after he was sent to prison for the crime. Source