Officer involved in fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor fired

The Louisville Metro police department has fired one of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/breonna-taylor-officer-fired-1.5624707?cmp=rss

Segway to end production of namesake personal transporter

Segway says it will end production of its namesake two-wheeled personal transporter, popular with tourists and police officers but perhaps better known for its high-profile crashes.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/segway-end-production-1.5624599?cmp=rss

Twitter again slaps warning on Trump after he threatens 'serious force' against protesters

Twitter Inc on Tuesday placed a warning notice on a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump threatening "serious force" against protesters in the U.S. capital, the second time it has used the label since it began challenging Trump's tweets in May.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/twitter-trump-warning-serious-force-protesters-1.5624583?cmp=rss

Trump ally Roger Stone got 'special treatment' due to relationship to president: federal prosecutor

A federal prosecutor is prepared to tell Congress on Wednesday that Roger Stone, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, was given special treatment ahead of his sentencing because of his relationship with the president.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/zelinsky-testimony-trump-stone-1.5624379?cmp=rss

Louisville, city of 600,000, has a single polling place in Kentucky primary

With only one polling place designated Tuesday for Louisville, voters who didn't cast mail-in ballots showed up early, with both Kentucky and New York having notable primary contests in a year in which the coronavirus has led to unprecedented election disruptions.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-primaries-kentucky-1.5623343?cmp=rss

Canada among 67 nations to reaffirm International Criminal Court support after U.S. sanctions

More than half of the member states of the International Criminal Court on Tuesday defended the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal, in a diplomatic response to a U.S. threat of sanctions against its employees earlier this month.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/icc-motion-canada-us-1.5624004?cmp=rss

COVID-19 vaccine a matter of 'when not if,' but must be produced safely: Fauci

The U.S. government's top infectious disease expert told a House committee on Tuesday he believes "it will be when and not if" there will be a COVID-19 vaccine and that he remains "cautiously optimistic" that some will be ready at the end of the year.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dc-house-coronavirus-briefing-1.5623382?cmp=rss

Bill Cosby granted appeal in Pennsylvania sex assault case

In a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cosby-appeal-1.5623773?cmp=rss

Strong quake hits southern Mexico, people run into streets in capital

A strong earthquake hit southern Mexico on Tuesday, shaking buildings in the centre of the capital Mexico City hundreds of kilometres away and sending people fleeing their homes into the streets.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-earthquake-1.5623675?cmp=rss

U.S., Russia complete 2 days of talks on strategic arms treaty soon to expire

The United States wants to broaden its main nuclear arms control agreement with Russia to include all their atomic weapons, a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday after talks with Moscow on a new accord.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vienna-us-russia-nuclear-talks-1.5623368?cmp=rss

Tennis star Novak Djokovic tests positive for COVID-19

Novak Djokovic, the men's world number one tennis player, has tested positive for COVID-19, he said in a statement on Tuesday.

source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/tennis-novak-djokovic-coronavirus-positive-test-1.5623347?cmp=rss

U.K. PM unveils easing of COVID-19 lockdown in England

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday pubs, restaurants and hotels could reopen in England early next month when the social distancing rule is relaxed, easing the coronavirus lockdown that has all but shut the economy.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-britain-covid-coronavirus-johnson-1.5623303?cmp=rss

Rayshard Brooks, Atlanta man shot dead by police, being remembered at MLK's church

Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by a police officer, is to be remembered Tuesday at the church in Atlanta where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/atlanta-brooks-funeral-1.5623296?cmp=rss

Frigid Pluto began as a warm place with an underground ocean, study suggests

Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers said on Monday.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/pluto-warm-ocean-1.5623300?cmp=rss

Ex-CEO of Wirecard arrested in case over missing billions

The former CEO of German payment service provider Wirecard has been arrested, accused of inflating the company's balance sheet in an accounting scandal that centres on a missing sum of 1.9 billion euros ($2.9 billion Cdn), prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wirecard-markus-braun-accounting-scandal-1.5623311?cmp=rss

Malawi voters return to polls in rare African election rerun

Voters in Malawi lined up before dawn for a rerun of the 2019 presidential election that the courts nullified over widespread evidence of tampering.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malawi-2nd-election-1.5623318?cmp=rss

Coronavirus: What's happening around the world on Tuesday

Here's a look at what's happening with COVID-19 around the world.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-world-tuesday-june23-1.5623253?cmp=rss

U.S. plans to slap tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, Bloomberg report says

The United States is planning to re-impose tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, Bloomberg reported late on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tariffs-aluminum-u-s-canada-trade-1.5623245?cmp=rss