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The B.C. Lions have touched down in Jay Christensen’s backyard, bringing his football career full circle. Forced out of Vancouver’s BC Place by the FIFA World Cup, the Lions (0-2) will look for their first win in a temporary home at Kelowna’s Apple Bowl.The Lions host the also winless Calgary Stampeders (0-2) on Saturday before facing the unbeaten Edmonton Elks (3-0) next weekend, with Christensen watching as an alumnus of all three CFL clubs.“(I have) a lot of fond memories from everywhere I played, but B.C. will always hold my heart because I was from Vancouver and played in the…

US stocks have opened lower as investors appeared to question massive spending on artificial intelligence by companies.

A courier whom Reuters spoke to near the building said he had rushed over to CITIC Tower around 6pm local time from a nearby location after hearing a loud crash as an aircraft about the size of a car hit the building.”It was so loud – louder than fireworks,” he said.He said he had shot a video of the aircraft sticking out of the building, but later deleted it because he was scared of getting caught by police.Another courier whom Reuters spoke to said he had come to the scene after seeing unverified social media images showing wreckage of a…

Iran has condemned a joint US-Gulf Cooperation Council statement as “interventionist, irresponsible and provocative”, accusing Washington and its Gulf allies of using diplomacy to impose pressure on Tehran after the recent United States-Israeli war on Iran.In a statement on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejected the communique issued after a GCC-US ministerial meeting in Bahrain on June 25, saying it distorted regional realities and repeated US and Israeli positions on Iran’s nuclear programme, missile capabilities, regional allies and the Strait of Hormuz.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listWhat did the US-GCC statement say?The US-GCC statement followed talks in Manama co-chaired…

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton is expected to plead guilty Friday to one count of retaining classified information and will agree to pay a $2.25 million fine.Bolton, now a staunch critic of Mr. Trump, was indicted last year on 18 counts related to his handling of sensitive government information that prosecutors said he shared with two relatives in “diary-like” entries over a seven-year span for possible use in a book he was writing. He had pleaded not guilty in October.He is expected to submit the plea agreement at a hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, one source told CBS News earlier this month.…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Ministry of Labour has been notified after a man fell from an escalator and died at the RioCan Empress Walk Plaza in North York Thursday evening. Toronto police said they were called to the mall around 5 p.m. following reports of an industrial accident. The man involved was pronounced dead at the scene.RioCan, the company that manages the mall, told Global News in a statement that it is fully co-operating with the ongoing investigation. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the…

East Perth are knocking on the door of the top four after overcoming 17 AFL-listed Eagles while missing much of their defence and losing premium midfielder Angus Scott before the bounce by five points.

Test your news knowledge with this week’s Fox News Digital News Quiz, featuring second lady Usha Vance’s swipe at The New York Times to a rowdy New York Knicks celebration scene.Looking for another challenge?San Francisco Giants pitcher Landen Roupp wearing a Bible Verse on his cap and a Florida couple making an announcement after an alleged baby mix-up were featured in last week’s News Quiz.Test your knowledge of sunscreen shake-ups, coastal curiosity and more in this week’s American Culture Quiz.CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APPIf you’re looking to play even more, you can find all of our quizzes…

“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including famed TV sitcom director James Burrows, the co-creator of “Cheers.”

SEOUL: South Korea unveiled on Friday (Jun 26) a plan to acquire 20,000 military drones to fend off North Korean threats, citing lessons learned from wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.A small number of high-cost weapon systems dominated the battlefields of the past, but the mass deployment of low-cost drones is transforming the nature of warfare.”Recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East clearly demonstrate that drones have emerged as game changers on the battlefield,” Defence Minister Ahn Gyu-back told reporters in Seoul.South Korea remains technically at war with the North after their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice,…