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Morning Update newsletter: Saudi Arabia defends use of Canadian-made armoured vehicles against civilians
A Saudi Arabia flag is seen flying on Parliament Hill Nov. 2 in Ottawa.
NAACP branch seeks removal of Delaware Confederate Monument
Man arrested in French car attack that wounded 6 soldiers
Chinese propaganda video prompts Indian complaint of racism
Thursday’s Insider Report: Companies insiders are buying and selling
An undated file photo of B2Gold's Masbate mining operation.
Syrian actress who rallied crowds against Assad dies
FILE - In this April 17, 2012 file photo, Syrian actress and activist, Fadwa Suleiman, center, throws roses on a giant Syrian flag during the 'White Wave' campaign to protest against the violence in Syria, in Paris. Syrian opposition groups said Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 that Suleiman, an actress who took center stage at anti-government protests in the early days of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, has died. She was 46. Suleiman, who hails from Assad's minority Alawite sect, became a hero to many for taking a stand against his family's decades-old rule.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
10 Things to Know for Today
People participate in a candlelight vigil at the University of Virginia Wednesday night, Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Hundreds of people gathered on the University of Virginia campus for the vigil against hate and violence days after Charlottesville erupted in chaos during a white nationalist rally. (Andrew Shurtleff /The Daily Progress via AP)
Romania: woman, 3 children killed crossing railway line
Turkey condemns German reluctance on customs union expansion
Stephen Fry returns to Shaw Festival in 2018 with debut of 'Mythos: A Trilogy'
In this Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 file photo, British actor and comedian Stephen Fry poses for photographers during a photocall to mark the announcement of the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award nominations in London. Fry is returning to the Shaw Festival with a starring role in a story of his own creation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Matt Dunham, File
Thursday’s small-cap stocks to watch
Our roundup of Canadian small-caps in the news today.
Cambodian medic who spread HIV asks for court's mercy
Yem Chrin, center, an unlicensed medical practitioner, is escorted by prison guards to waiting transportation outside an appeals court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Yem, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison after finding him responsible for infecting more than 100 villagers with HIV by reusing sanitized syringes, told the appeals court that he regretted the mistake and he did not intend to infect the victims. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Threat looms of more mudslides in Sierra Leone amid burials
How E.P. Taylor used his business acumen to rescue Ontario horse racing
Witness an auto giant’s evolution at the Honda Collection Hall
Among the collections found at the Honda Collection Hall in Motegi, Japan, is a 1963 S500, Honda’s first sports car. It came in bright red, contravening several Japanese regulations at the time that were designed to keep red for fire vehicles only.
Aug. 17: In the NAFTA bargain(ing). Plus other letters to the editor
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland shakes hands with Mexican Secretary of the Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal before the first round of talks to renegotiate the North American free-trade agreement in Washington on Aug. 15, 2017.
As condo prices surge, young Canadians struggle to buy their first homes
Fifty-three per cent of respondents nationally said they are willing to spend up to $350,000 for their home purchase, but they may be hard-pressed to buy into the Greater Toronto Area market, where the average price of condos sold in July hit $501,750.
Israeli leader resists calls to criticize Trump
People participate in a candlelight vigil at the University of Virginia Wednesday night, Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Hundreds of people gathered for the vigil against hate and violence days after Charlottesville erupted in chaos during a white nationalist rally. (Andrew Shurtleff /The Daily Progress via AP)
Nobel winner shot for promoting education to study at Oxford
FILE - A Tuesday, July. 18, 2017 file photo of Nobel Peace laureate, Malala Yousafzai, gesturing, during a visit to school in Maiduguri Nigeria. Malala Yousafzai has gained a place at the University of Oxford. The 20-year-old education activist tweeted her acceptance to the school, saying she was "so excited" to win a spot to study philosophy, politics and economics. (AP Photo/ Jossy Ola, File)
Romania: Orthodox synod meets to discuss bishop sex scandal
Media waits outside the Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. The Holy Synod of Romania's Orthodox Church is meeting behind closed doors to discuss what action to take against the Bishop of Husi, Corneliu Barladeanu, who was seen on video engaging in sexual acts with a male student, the first time in its 92-year history that the synod gathered to decide on action to take in a sex scandal. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
The Latest: White House reacts to Steve Bannon comments
China warns Washington against 'trade war'
The Latest: World Vision urges aid to protect refugee kids
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 6, 2017 file photo, a young South Sudanese refugee girl drinks water from a plastic container at the Imvepi reception centre, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in Uganda has reached 1 million, the United Nations said Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, a grim milestone in what has become the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Construction of wrong-way driver system starts along I-17
ICC orders Mali extremist to pay $3.2 million in reparations
FILE - In this Friday, April 4, 2014 file photo, Mohamed Maouloud Ould Mohamed, a mausoleum caretaker, prays at a damaged tomb in Timbuktu, Mali. In the West African nation of Mali, Islamic radicals in 2012 overran Timbuktu, the historic city of Islamic culture. The International Criminal court ruled Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, that a Muslim radical, Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, found guilty of destroying World Heritage cultural sites in the Malian city of Timbuktu must pay 2.7 million euros ($3.2 million) in reparations. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File)
Search area expands for Army helicopter missing off Hawaii
Honolulu ocean safety lifeguards on jet skis hand over materials to military personnel stationed at a command center at a boat harbor, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Haleiwa, Hawaii. An Army helicopter with five on board crashed several miles off Oahu's North Shore late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
UK retail sales grow modestly as consumers remain cautious
The Latest: Court sends Hong Kong activists to prison
Hong Kong activist Nathan Law hugs with a supporter outside the high court before a ruling on a prosecution request for stiffer sentences in Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Young Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong and two other student leaders of huge pro-democracy protests in 2014 braced for a court decision Thursday that could send them to prison. The three were found guilty of leading or encouraging an illegal rally in September 2014 that kicked off the demonstrations known as the "Umbrella Movement." (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Confederate monuments removed or vandalized across the US
A damaged nearly century-old Confederate statue lies on a pallet in a warehouse in Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Investigators are working to identify and charge protesters who toppled the Confederate statue in front of a North Carolina government building, the sheriff said Tuesday. The Confederate Soldiers Monument, dedicated in 1924, stood in front of an old courthouse building that serves as local government offices. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)
Israel destroys home of Palestinian who killed officer
The Latest: North Korea warns US on nuclear weapons talks
Scholars say Trump went afoul in lumping Lee with founders
Tom Lever, 28, and Aaliyah Jones, 38, both of Charlottesville, put up a sign that says "Heather Heyer Park" at the base of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee monument in Emancipation Park Tuesday, Aug. 15 in Charlottesville, Va. Alex Fields Jr., is charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, including Heyer, Saturday, where a white supremacist rally took place. (AP Photo/Julia Rendleman)
German nationalist leader Frauke Petry could lose immunity
FILE- In this April 22, 2017 file photo Frauke Petry looks thoughtful at the party convention of Germany's nationalist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) in Cologne, Germany. A committee of a German state parliament has recommended lifting the immunity of the German nationalist leader so they can pursue an investigation of allegations that she lied under oath, German news agency dpa reported Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file)
Trump aide: No military solution in North Korea
Man with knife arrested in brief Netherlands hostage-taking
Defence team for Pulse shooter's widow receives warning
Spain rescues 600 migrants in Mediterranean in 24 hours
Despite recurring turmoil, Mississippi hasn't budged on flag
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, Hjalmberi Shytox of Purvis, Miss., carries a Mississippi state flag in front of the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., while participating in a rally in support of keeping the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag. White supremacists waved the Confederate battle flag amid Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 violence in Virginia, prompting critics to say Mississippi should remove the symbol from its state banner. Critics said the same thing two years ago after an avowed white supremacist killed black worshippers in South Carolina, and nothing changed. The same leaders who control Mississippi flag legislation remain in office.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Jobs, supply chain, growth: Why autos are such an important part of NAFTA
Ford Motor Company President of the Americas Joe Hinrichs drives the first car to the end of the production line, as Ford Motor Company celebrates the global production start of the 2015 Ford Edge at the Ford Assembly Plant in Oakville, Ont., on Thursday, February 26, 2015. The future of Canada's more than one million automotive jobs is a critical part of what's at stake at the NAFTA renegotiation table in Washington after the U.S. chief negotiator targeted the sector on the first day of talks Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Flooding maroons people in Indian states, eases in Nepal
Flood affected boys move on a banana raft near partially submerged houses in Morigaon district east of Gauhati, Assam, India, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Heavy monsoon rains have unleashed landslides and floods that killed dozens of people in recent days and displaced millions more across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Charlottesville woman's family: Fight injustice like she did
Under fire - from GOP - Trump digs in on Confederate icons
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, attending an event in Lewiston, Maine, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, speaks to reporters about President Trump's recent comments about the violence in Charlottesville, Va. "There's absolutely no place in this country for hatred, racism, anti-Semitism and bigotry. The president should've spoken out far more strongly from the very beginning," she said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Business execs shunned Trump panels before he disbanded them
Kabul catwalk: Afghan models show off traditional clothing
In this Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017. photo, Afghan models present traditional embroidered Afghan clothing during a fashion show in Kabul, Afghanistan. Amid tight security, over two dozen young models, including six women, strutted down the catwalk in the garden of a private Kabul villa, proudly displaying the traditional clothing and costumes of Afghanistan’s many ethnic groups.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Police: Shopping cart with human remains found in the Bronx
Lebanon prepares for Syria's post-war construction windfall
In this Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017 photo, cranes offload hay from a ship onto waiting trucks in the port of the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Markets across the Middle East are anticipating a mammoth reconstruction boom in Syria that could stimulate billions of dollars in economic activity, and Lebanon, as Syria’s neighbor, is in prime position to capture a share of that reward.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
US soldier killed in battle with IS in Afghanistan
FILE - In this Saturday, July 15, 2017file photo, A U.S. soldier salutes during a change of command ceremony at Resolute Support headquarters, in Kabul, Afghanistan. In an "open letter" to U.S. President Donald Trump, Afghanistan's Taliban on Tuesday reiterated their call for a withdrawal of troops to end the protracted war. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini)
Anti-Muslim Australian senator wears burqa in Parliament
In this combination of photos Sen. Pauline Hanson takes off a burqa she wore into the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, sat wearing the black head-to-ankle garment for more than 10 minutes before taking it off as she rose to explain that she wanted such outfits banned on national security grounds. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)
US: War would be 'horrific' but NKorea nukes 'unimaginable'
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, center, poses for a photo with Chinese Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Fan Changlong during a meeting at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. (Wang Zhao/Pool Photo via AP)
Raspberry mousse cakes sold in multiple provinces recalled for norovirus
Cedar Point unveils new roller coaster, Steel Vengeance
North Korea's neighbours talk about 'fire and fury'
In this image made from video on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, from left to right: Shogo Aoki and Masaru Chiba from Japan; Choi Dong-sam and Heo Kyung Yon from South Korea; Ma Hongshuo and Tiger Han from China; speaks about U.S. President Donald Trump and tensions with North Korea. Tensions are swirling as threats are fired back and forth between North Korea and Trump. In East Asia, they are leading to a new level of worry and uncertainty over whether the war of words could escalate into a real war that would likely result in tens of thousands of deaths on the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo)
Wednesday's Games
Saudi Arabia reopens Qatar border for hajj pilgrims
Sentence next for Chicago activist with US immigration crime
FILE - In this April 25, 2017, file photo, Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh of Chicago stands outside the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit. Odeh is returning to Detroit on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, for a final court hearing before she's eventually deported for concealing her convictions in two Jerusalem bombings. (Max Ortiz/Detroit News via AP, File)
1 million South Sudan refugees now in Uganda, UN says
FILE - In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, a South Sudanese refugee girl with a baby on her back carries a foam mattress to the communal tent where they will sleep, at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in Uganda has reached 1 million, the United Nations said Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, a grim milestone in what has become the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Wisconsin Assembly passes $3 billion for Foxconn
FILE - In this May 27, 2010 file photo, a worker looks out through the logo at the entrance of the Foxconn complex in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The Wisconsin Assembly plans to approve a $3 billion tax break bill for Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group to build a new display panel factory in the state. The incentive package up for a vote Thursday, Aug. 16, 2017, would be the largest in state history and the biggest to a foreign company in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Overdoses on the road: Drugged driving rises as a menace
In this Aug. 9, 2017, photo, Koriann Evans, a former drug addict, holds up her hand to pose for a photo at her home in Bellevue, Ohio. Evans was hooked on heroin for over a decade until she overdosed while driving her car with her two children in the back, after which she stopped using drugs and started speaking about her former addiction. Police and rescue crews say drivers overdosing on heroin and other drugs are driving up the number of car crashes. (AP Photo/Danke Kang)
Australian court: Refugee camp in Papua New Guinea is legal
Fugitive's trail exposes Red Bull co-owners' offshore deals
Panama Papers expose cash trail amid Red Bull fugitive hunt
FILE - In this April 5, 2017, file photo, Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, whose grandfather co-founded energy drink company Red Bull, walks to get in a car as he leaves a house in London. The Bangkok billionaire family uses offshore companies to cloak purchases of jets and luxury properties, including the posh London home where the clan’s fugitive son was last seen. The Yoovidhya family’s efforts to hide assets show how easily major global financial players can routinely - and, usually, legally - move billions of dollars with little or no oversight. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
LL Bean boosting production of iconic boot
FILE - In this March 16, 2016, file photo, shoppers exit the L.L. Bean retail store in Freeport, Maine. L.L. Bean hopes to give the boot to backlogs of its most iconic product. The Maine-based retailer is expanding production to keep up with demand for its leather-and-rubber “duck boot” with a new manufacturing center that’s being unveiled Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. The company also plans to hire more than 100 additional production workers at two locations in Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Governor revamps panel to strengthen animal cruelty laws
Lindsay Hamrick, New Hampshire director of The Humane Society of the United States, smiles as Republican Gov. Chris Sununu pets a Great Dane puppy on Thursday, Aug. 17, in Wolfeboro, N.H. Sununu was announcing his support for strengthening animal cruelty laws two months after more than 80 dogs were removed from what authorities described as filthy conditions in a Wolfeboro mansion. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)
New Ford CEO says company will balance present with future
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New Zealand lawmaker says good chance of Pacific trade deal
Tense days for business owners without legal status in US
In this June 27, 2017 photo, Jorge Tume washes a car in Miami, Florida. Jorge and his wife, both from Peru, have scaled back their mobile car wash business in Miami because they are so afraid of getting stopped by police and turned over to immigration. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
August 17: Your daily horoscope
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Ottawa pledges $21-million for Africa’s famine crisis
A Yemeni child, who is suspected of being infected with cholera, receives treatment at a hospital in the capital Sanaa, on August 12, 2017.
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