Wednesday, May 20, 2020

As Trump muses about in-person G7 meeting, Trudeau says he will look at proposal, safety measures offered

G7-SUMMIT/TRUMP

As U.S. President Donald Trump muses about face-to-face G7 meetings, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he'll have to consider the proposal, the safety measures that will be in place and the advice from public health officials.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-trudeau-g7-safety-1.5577838?cmp=rss

Supreme Court blocks release of secret Mueller grand jury testimony to House of Representatives

USA-TRUMP/RUSSIA

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the disclosure to a Democratic-led House of Representatives committee of grand jury material redacted by President Donald Trump's administration from former special counsel Robert Mueller's report documenting Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/robert-mueller-investigation-supreme-court-trump-grand-jury-1.5577597?cmp=rss

Police in Colombia using drones to ID people flouting coronavirus quarantine

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/COLOMBIA-DRONES

It's not a bird, plane or Superman: the aircraft humming in the skies above Colombia's capital Bogota are instead police drones that are meant to detect people with high temperatures or those violating the country's coronavirus quarantine.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/drones-colombia-bogota-coronavirus-quarantine-1.5577395?cmp=rss

Mike Pompeo denies State Department inspector general firing was retaliation

Pompeo

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended his recommendation to fire the State Department's inspector general, saying he should have done it earlier and rejecting claims his decision was motivated by political retaliation.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pompeo-state-news-conference-1.5576919?cmp=rss

2 Americans arrested in connection with ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn's escape from Japan

Lebanon Carlos Ghosn

U.S. authorities on Wednesday arrested a former Green Beret and his son who are accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan while he awaited trial on financial misconduct charges.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-taylors-arrest-nissan-ghosn-1.5576792?cmp=rss

Climate change turning Antarctica's snow green

Green snow antarctica

Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/green-antarctica-1.5576532?cmp=rss

Cambridge University scraps in-person lectures for 2020-2021

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/BRITAIN-CAMBRIDGE

Cambridge has become the first university in Britain to cancel all face-to-face lectures for the 2020-21 academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic, after 800 years of welcoming students to its cloisters, quadrangles and classrooms.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cambridge-university-lectures-cancelled-1.5576617?cmp=rss

Benjamin Netanyahu must appear for start of corruption trial, court rules

ISRAEL-POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

An Israeli court on Wednesday ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appear for the opening of his criminal trial in Jerusalem on Sunday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-netanyahu-trial-1.5576649?cmp=rss

Accused Rwanda genocide financier makes 1st court appearance in France

FRANCE-RWANDA/KABUGA

International war crimes investigators have requested that Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, arrested last weekend, be transferred to United Nations custody for trial, a prosecutor says.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/france-rwanda-kabuga-court-1.5576587?cmp=rss

Thousands evacuated from homes as river dams break in central Michigan

USA-FLOOD/MICHIGAN

Rapidly rising water overtook dams and has forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people from their homes in central Michigan, where flooding struck communities along rain-swollen waterways.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michigan-dam-flood-1.5576545?cmp=rss

Hundreds of thousands evacuated as India, Bangladesh brace for super cyclone

India Asia Cyclone

India and Bangladesh evacuated around half a million people out of the way of the most powerful storm in a decade ahead of its landfall on Wednesday amid fears of heavy damage to houses and crops and disruption of road, rail and power links.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cyclone-india-bangladesh-1.5576488?cmp=rss