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Ratko Mladic, the 74-year-old former Serbian general, arrested in 2011 and put on trial a year later, will learn his fate when the UN tribunal in the Hague delivers its sentence on Wednesday. Survivors of the war tell CBC News about their ordeal as prisoners and what the verdict means to them. CBC | World News

Bob Rae, Canada’s newly appointed special envoy to the Rohingya refugee crisis, arrived Wednesday in the South Asian region as Myanmar’s fleeing Muslim population continues to seek refuge in Bangladesh, already one of the world’s poorest countries. CBC | World News

Liberia’s provisional election results are expected Thursday, the election commission said Wednesday, as the West African nation waits to see who will succeed the Nobel Peace Prize winner who led the country’s recovery from Ebola and civil war. CBC | World News

LUIS ORTIZ has failed a drugs test just a month before he was due to face Deontay Wilder in a showdown between the two unbeaten heavyweights. Daily Express :: Sport Feed

POUND sterling has stabilised against the euro as the bloc awaits a decision on interest rates from the European Central Bank today. Daily Express :: Travel Feed

Rafael Nadal had about as easy a time as possible in the U.S. Open quarter-finals, beating 19-year-old Russian Andrey Rublev 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in a little more than 90 minutes to close in on a showdown with Roger Federer. CBC | Sports News