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How Canada’s inflation rate increase relates to food prices
Customers shop for produce at Freestone Produce market in Calgary Alta on July 18, 2023. Despite the annual inflation rate easing to its lowest levels since early 2021, the price of groceries rose 9.1 per cent on an annual basis in June.
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Kim Jong-un, Putin exchange letters vowing stronger ties between North Korea and Russia
FILE PHOTO: State flags of Russia and North Korea fly in a street near a railway station during the visit of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un to Vladivostok, Russia April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev/File Photo
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Russian central bank jacks up rates to 12%
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Fire at Russian gas station kills at least 30
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Global wealth projected to rise 38% by 2027, despite recent decline: study
People walk around the front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Russia’s central bank hikes key interest rate to 12% in bid to support battered ruble
A Russian state flag flies over the Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia, August 15, 2023. A sign reads: "Bank of Russia". REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
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Russia unleashes a country-wide missile barrage on Ukraine as Putin addresses security conference
Rescuers work at a site of a residential building destroyed during a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Roman Baluk
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U.S. ambassador to Russia visited WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich in jail
FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File)
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Ships backed up in Black Sea lanes as Russia warning shots raise tensions
FILE PHOTO: A view of the cereal terminal with grain silo in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, May 11, 2022. REUTERS/Anca Cernat/File Photo
hockey
IIHF rules in favor of Flyers, says Russian goalie Ivan Fedotov has a valid NHL contract
FILE - Russian Olympic Committee goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov (28) reacts after a goal by Finland's Hannes Bjorninen during the men's gold medal hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing. The International Ice Hockey Federation has ruled in favor of the Philadelphia Flyers by agreeing that Russian goaltender Ivan Fedotov had a valid NHL contract for the upcoming season. The decision rendered Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, paves the way for Fedotov to play in North America, like he planned to do a year ago before being conscripted into the Russian military. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
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Russian ruble hits its lowest level since early weeks of the war in Ukraine
FILE - People enter a currency exchange office in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 6, 2023. The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Western sanctions weigh on energy exports and weaken demand for the national currency. On Monday Aug. 14, 2023, the Russian currency passed 101 rubles to the dollar, continuing a more than 25% decline in its value since the beginning of the year and hitting the lowest level in almost 17 months. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File)
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China’s defence minister to visit Russia, Belarus in show of support despite West’s objections
Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu speaks at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore June 4, 2023. Mark Cheong/The Straits Times via REUTERS
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Russia to reportedly deliver S-400 air defence systems to India on schedule
Russian S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile launchers roll down the Red Square during a night rehearsal for the WWII Victory Parade in Moscow on May 4, 2019. - Russia celebrates victory over Nazi Germany in WWII on May 9. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP)MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images
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Ukraine reports seven killed in Russian attack as fighting continues on land, at sea
Lyubov Tolchina, 63, reacts as she stands amongst the rubble strewn in the garden of her son's home, killed during Ukrainian shelling of Russian controlled Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed state of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine on August 13, 2023. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
tennis
Rybakina outlasts Kasatkina in late-night marathon Montreal tennis match
MONTREAL, CANADA - AUGUST 11: Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan serves against Daria Kasatkina on Day 5 during the National Bank Open at Stade IGA on August 11, 2023 in Montreal, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
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Ukraine says two killed in shelling as Russia condemns alleged attack on Crimean Bridge
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine August 10, 2023. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi/File Photo
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China, Russia and Iran are engaged in foreign interference in New Zealand, intelligence agency says
A man raises a New Zealand flag as he attends a vigil in memory of the twin mosque massacre victims in Christchurch on March 24, 2019. - New Zealand will hold a national remembrance service for victims of the Christchurch massacre on March 29, the government announced, as the country grieves over a tragedy that shocked the world. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images
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Russia joins race to find water on moon
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Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny admonishes ‘corrupt’ elite after being handed 19 more years in jail
FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via video link from a penal colony in the Vladimir Region during a hearing at the Basmanny district court in Moscow, Russia April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova/File Photo
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Russia launches lunar lander in race to find water on moon
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, in this still image from video taken August 11, 2023. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS
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Russia is to launch its first mission to the moon in almost 50 years
In this photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna 25 automatic station is transported to a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Luna 25 is a Russian lunar lander mission scheduled to launch later in August. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)
opinion
No Ukrainian grain means pain for Africa. Will that change Putin’s tune?
Michael Bociurkiw
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Ukraine announces ‘humanitarian corridor’ for ships stuck in Black Sea ports
FILE PHOTO: A view of the cereal terminal with grain silo in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, May 11, 2022. REUTERS/Anca Cernat/File Photo
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Russian military push on eastern front prompts Ukraine to evacuate thousands of civilians
A view shows a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine August 10, 2023. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi
energy and resources
Oil settles lower as U.S. rate hike fears subside, China demand weighs
FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Navajo Nation has struggled for years with high poverty rates and joblessness, and the tribe’s legislative leaders say individual Navajo allottees stand to lose an important source of income if a 10-mile buffer is created around the park. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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North Korea’s Kim dismisses top general, calls for war preparations
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 7th enlarged meeting of the 8th Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea at the headquarters building of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, August 9, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS
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Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration
(FILES) Border guards patrol along the border wall at Polish - Belarus border not far from Bialowieza, eastern Poland, on May 29, 2023. Poland will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its eastern border with neighbouring Belarus, a deputy interior minister said om August 9, 2023, as a record number of migrants try to cross. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Scores injured in blast at factory near Moscow
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Nagasaki marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing with mayor urging world to abolish nuclear weapons
Attendees observe a moment of silence at the time of the atomic bombing at 11:02 am as they hold a peace memorial ceremony at an indoor facility due to approaching Typhoon Khanun in Nagasaki, Nagasaki prefecture on August 9, 2023, as the city marks the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing during World War II. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian attack in Ukraine kills three in Zaporizhzhia; blast at Moscow-area factory adds to jitters
In this photo provided by the Zaporizhzhia administration Press Office, rescuers work on the scene of a building damaged after Russian missile strikes in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (Zaporizhzhia administration Press Office via AP)
theatre & performance
Star soprano Anna Netrebko sues Met Opera over its decision to cut ties over Russia-Ukraine war
FILE - Russian soprano Anna Netrebko bows to the audience at the end of La Scala opera house's gala season opener, Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" at the Milan La Scala theater, Italy, on Dec. 7, 2019. Soprano Netrebko, once among the Metropolitan Opera’s biggest box office draws, sued the company and general manager Peter Gelb on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, alleging defamation, breach of contract and other violations related to the institution's decision to drop her following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
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Ukraine accuses Russia of targeting rescue workers with consecutive missile strikes
Rescuers work with heavy machinery, at the site of a building destroyed during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine August 8, 2023. REUTERS/Vladyslav Smilianets
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Two Russian missiles have hit city in eastern Ukraine, killing at least five, officials say
Firefighters work inside the burnt building of the University of Economics and Trade, which was reportedly hit by shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, August 6, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
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Belarus begins military drills near its border with Poland and Lithuania as tensions heighten
FILE - A Polish border guard patrols the area of a built metal wall on the border between Poland and Belarus, near Kuznice, Poland, on June 30, 2022. NATO allies located along the alliance’s eastern front are growing increasingly worried about the presence of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries in Belarus. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)
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Ukraine says three killed in Russian shelling of Kherson, Kharkiv region
Exterior view of a heavily damaged apartment after what officials say was a Russian overnight shelling in Kherson, Ukraine August 7, 2023 in this still image obtained from social media video. Telegram/Oleksandr Prokudin via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. Reuters was not able to independently verify the date and location the footage was filmed.
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Ukraine calls Jeddah talks productive, Russia calls them doomed
(FILES) This handout picture provided by the official Saudi Press Agency SPA, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky greeting Saudi officials next to the Deputy Emir of Mecca, Prince Badr bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz (R), in Jeddah where the former arrived on May 19, 2023 to participate in the Arab League Summit. Saudi Arabia is hosting talks on the Ukraine war on August 5, in the latest flexing of its diplomatic muscle, though expectations are mild for what the gathering might achieve. (Photo by -STR / SPA / AFP) / === RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / SPA" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS === (Photo by -STR/SPA/AFP via Getty Images)