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COVID case could have impact on Australia Open preparations
MELBOURNE, Australia - Players preparing for the Australian Open will have to isolate until they return a negative test for COVID-19 after a worker at one of the tournament's Melbourne quarantine hote...
Feb 03, 2021
Rights groups call for boycott of Beijing 2022 Winter Games
TOKYO - A coalition of 180 rights groups on Wednesday called for a boycott of next year's Beijing Winter Olympics tied to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China. The games are...
Feb 03, 2021
Partial list of nominees for the Golden Globe Awards
LOS ANGELES - Partial list of nominees for the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards: Best motion picture, drama: "The Father"; "Mank"; "Nomadland"; "The Trial of the Chicago 7"; "Promising Young Woman." Be...
Feb 03, 2021
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime prevails in opener at Australian Open tune-up event
MELBOURNE, Australia - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime opened his 2021 season with a 6-3 6-1 win over Japan's Yuichi Sugita in the second round of the Murray River Open on Wednesday. The third-seeded A...
Feb 03, 2021
Site and scope of planned Parksville pool/multi-plex concept announced
PARKSVILLE - A long-discussed aquatic centre in Parksville is transitioning to a detailed design stage to nail down amenities, potential costing and management of the facility.A newly released feasibi...
Feb 03, 2021
Chadwick Boseman earns 2 nominations for NAACP Image Awards
LOS ANGELES - With his final two performances, the late Chadwick Boseman earned two NAACP Image Awards nominations Tuesday, while "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" could make its presence felt at next month'...
Feb 03, 2021
PBS chief defends filmmaker Ken Burns, touts diversity
LOS ANGELES - The chief executive of PBS rejected a filmmaker's argument that public TV's 40-year relationship with documentarian Ken Burns has come at the expense of diversity. President and CEO Paul...
Feb 03, 2021
4 hurt in explosion at Los Angeles-area industrial park
LOS ANGELES - An explosion at an industrial park near Los Angeles on Tuesday injured four people, three of them critically, authorities said. The blast was reported at 4:45 p.m. in a neighbourhood of ...
Feb 03, 2021
China not convinced by Canada's Wu-Tang Clan explanation
BEIJING - A ruckus brought by China over Canadian T-shirts bearing an altered logo of the New York hip-hop group Wu-Tang clan continued Wednesday, with China's Foreign Ministry saying it didn't buy Ca...
Feb 03, 2021
Bidens bring an unexpected piece of furniture to White House
WASHINGTON - There's a crib in President Joe Biden's White House. Upstairs in the family residence, the bed is set for the president's youngest grandchild, Beau Biden Jr. The baby was born last year t...
Feb 03, 2021