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Authorities say former Glee star Naya Rivera is missing and being searched for at a Southern California lake. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department late Wednesday confirmed that Rivera, 33, is the person being searched for in the waters of Lake Piru, which is approximately 90 kilometres northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Source

The latest:U.S. reports more than 58,000 new COVID-19 cases, Trump pushes for schools to reopen.Canada's public health agency warns threat of COVID-19 resurgence in Canada 'not just hypothetical.'The resort island of Bali, Indonesia reopens after three-month virus lockdown.Federal government delivers grim economic forecast to Canadians in its "fiscal snapshot. Source

Students slated to start volunteering this week in order to receive the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG) have seen their placements grind to halt as the government tries to sort out the troubled program, CBC News has learned. Source

An Ontario man says he wants to see more post-mortem COVID-19 testing, after a Windsor hospital denied a swab test request following the death of his grandmother. In June, Ada Lidwell was admitted to Windsor Regional Hospital after she fell and fractured her hip. Source

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA -- Australia suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and extended visas for Hong Kong residents in response to China's imposition of a tough national security law on the semi-autonomous territory, the prime minister said Thursday. Source

SREBRENICA, BOSNIA -- A quarter of a century after they were killed in Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War, eight Bosnian men and boys will be laid to rest Saturday in a cemetery just outside of Srebrenica -- their marble gravestones joining thousands more, each with the same month and year of death. Source

Donald Trump's call to reopen schools is winning rare qualified support from a group that's included some of the U.S. president's harshest critics: virus experts. Epidemiologists who have castigated the president's pandemic handling agree with him that students should be in classrooms this fall. Source

Canadian barley farmers are the unintended beneficiaries of a diplomatic spat a world away, as exports of their product to China are picking up. China is engaged in a trade dispute with Australia right now, accusing the antipodean nation of dumping agricultural products. Source

Some public health and infectious disease experts are pressing for governments in Canada to shift to minimizing, not eradicating, COVID-19 while allowing society to resume functioning. The open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and all premiers, dated July 6, says aiming to prevent or contain every case is not sustainable at this stage in the pandemic. Source

As far as Eileen Mohan is concerned, Jamie Bacon has been playing the justice system for a fool for the past decade. The mother of one of six people killed in B.C.'s most notorious gangland slaying says she may be in court to watch Thursday — but she'll get no satisfaction from seeing the gangster plead guilty to one count of conspiring to commit murder in relation to the 2007 Surrey Six killings. Source