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HOUSTON -- The memorial services to honour George Floyd are extraordinary: three cities over six days, with a chance for mourners to pay their respects in the communities where he was born, grew up, and died. Source

The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first detected late last year, has tested nearly 10 million people in an unprecedented 19-day campaign to check an entire city. It identified just 300 positive cases, all of whom had no symptoms. Source

BEIJING -- China tightened controls over dissidents while pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and elsewhere sought ways to mark the 31st anniversary Thursday of the crushing of the pro-democracy movement centred on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. That came after authorities in Hong Kong took the extraordinary move of cancelling an annual candlelight vigil in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory for the first time in 30 years. Source

In an extraordinary rebuke, former U.S. defence secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump's heavy-handed use of military force to quell protests near the White House and said his former boss was setting up a "false conflict" between the military and civilian society. Source

All four former officers involved in George Floyd's killing now face charges Source

Full coverage at CTVNews.ca/Coronavirus Tracking every case of COVID-19 in Canada 'This is a public record': These are the pandemic moments Canadians are documenting Source

PHILADELPHIA -- Explosions have hit 50 cash machines in and near Philadelphia since the weekend, and one man has died, in a co-ordinated effort to steal them or take the money inside, authorities said Wednesday. A 25-year-old who's accused of selling homemade dynamite on the streets with instructions on how to use it on ATMs has been arrested, though authorities aren't yet sure whether the man is connected to the co-ordinated effort, the state attorney general said. Source

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he did not believe that he would need to use troops to counter domestic protests sparked by a police killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis. "It depends, I don't think we'll have to," Trump said when asked in an interview with Newsmax TV whether he would send the military to any cities after sometimes violent protests over the killing of George Floyd. Source

As more players spoke out Wednesday, the German soccer federation said it will not punish those who protest against the killing of George Floyd and racism. Several players in Germany have made statements with gestures during games or placed messages on their clothing ever since Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died on May 25 in Minneapolis after he was detained by several police officers, one of whom pressed his knee for several minutes on his neck. Source

INVERMERE, B.C. -- One of the first things drivers see heading in to Radium B.C. along Highway 93 is sign out front the old Salzburg restaurant reading, "Welcome Back Alberta." The restaurant’s head chef says he's happy to see red-and-white Alberta licence plates once again heading into the Columbia Valley. Source