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LOUISVILLE, KY. -- A grand jury in Kentucky was scheduled to present its findings to a judge in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers who burst into her home at night. Source

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in for a sixth term on Wednesday after an election that the opposition and several foreign governments say was rigged, ignoring calls for an end to his 26-year grip on power. Source

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- The first known direct commercial flight between Israel and Bahrain landed Wednesday in the island kingdom, just a week after it signed a deal alongside the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations. Source

SEOUL, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF -- A South Korean official who disappeared off a government ship near the disputed sea boundary with North Korea this week may be in North Korea, South Korea's Defence Ministry said Wednesday. Source

MONTREAL -- Quebec health authorities reported 471 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases in the province since the start of the pandemic to 69,088. Four more people have died due to the disease, for a total of 5,809. Source

TEHRAN, IRAN -- Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard force has managed to fly a surveillance drone over the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier which last week transited through the Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian news agency said Wednesday. Source

Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, who made his mark as one of the NFL's best all-purpose running backs and was later celebrated for his enduring friendship with a Chicago Bears teammate with cancer, has died. He was 77. Source

Indigenous leaders, special interest groups and other provinces will have their say today in trying to convince the Supreme Court whether or not the national price on pollution is constitutional. The second day of hearings in three appeals over the federal carbon tax will go forward in Ottawa starting this morning. Source

WASHINGTON -- Two Republican-led Senate committees issued a politically charged report Wednesday alleging that the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son did in Ukraine constituted a conflict of interest for the Obama administration at a time when Biden was engaged in Ukraine policy as vice-president. Source

MOSCOW, RUSSIA -- A Russian court on Wednesday ordered two months of pre-trial detention for a Siberian cult leader claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ as he faces charges of harming followers. Sergei Torop, a long-haired former traffic policeman, has led a sect called The Church of the Last Testament for almost 30 years since proclaiming himself the Son of God following what he says was a revelation. Source