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Police have arrested a second teenage boy in connection with a string of unrelated shootings in Winnipeg this week that left one woman dead and several other people wounded. A boy, 15, is now charged with first-degree murder and a list of other serious offences related to three of the four attacks, all of which happened in the same 24-hour period, police said at a news conference on Saturday morning. Source

LE COUDRAY-MONTCEAUX, FRANCE -- France's new prime minister said Saturday his government will focus on keeping French manufacturing jobs and bringing others back to France from lower-wage countries as it tries to dig the country out of deep recession. Source

TEHRAN, IRAN -- A chlorine gas leak at a petrochemical centre in southeast Iran sickened 70 workers, state-run IRNA news agency reported Saturday. Most of the workers at the Karun petrochemical centre in the city of Mahshahr in southeast Khuzestan province were released after undergoing medical treatment. Source

Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, about 10 missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said. More than 75,000 residents in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were urged to vacate the areas following pounding rains overnight. Source

TORONTO -- America wasn’t the only country being celebrated on the Fourth of July as people around the world took to Twitter on Saturday morning to share photos of their own homelands with the hashtag #AllCountriesMatter. Source

Prince Edward Island's Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Heather Morrison says the province has three new cases of COVID-19. One is a man in his 50s, and two people are in their 20s, she said at an unscheduled briefing in Charlottetown today. Source

Search crews are back on the Red River near Winnipeg's Louise Bridge today to resume the search for a nine-year-old boy who went missing Friday afternoon after ending up in the water. Darryl Contois was one of the people who came out Saturday to help hunt for Darius Bezecki, after the initial search had to be called off at sunset on Friday. Source

Search crews are back on the Red River near Winnipeg's Louise Bridge today to resume the search for a nine-year-old boy who went missing Friday afternoon after ending up in the water. Darryl Contois was one of the people who came out Saturday to help hunt for Darius Bezecki, after the initial search had to be called off at sunset on Friday. Source

HALIFAX -- Prince Edward Island is reporting three new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. These are the first cases reported on the island since April 28. “This is disappointing news, but we have said consistently that we need to be prepared for more cases, and we are,” said Prince Edward Island’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Source

A cyclist assisted Atlanta police in the capture of a murder suspect by loaning an officer his bike for the chase. On Tuesday, officers were canvassing an area in the city's Old Fourth Ward where a fatal shooting occurred when they spotted the suspect, according to a news release from the Atlanta Police Department. Source