Death toll from flooding in Japan rises to 50, dozen missing

Japan's disaster management agency said the death toll from recent flooding has risen to 50.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/japan-floods-river-1.5640052?cmp=rss

Brazil's Bolsonaro tested again for coronavirus after reportedly exhibiting symptoms

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he had undergone another test for the novel coronavirus, after local media reported he had symptoms associated with COVID-19, including a fever.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-bolsonaro-test-coronavirus-symptoms-1.5639867?cmp=rss

U.K. sanctions Russians, Saudis under new Magnitsky Act powers

Britain has announced economic sanctions against individuals and organizations from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and North Korea under new powers to punish human rights offenders. They include Saudi officials allegedly involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/magnitsky-uk-sanctions-russia-saudi-1.5639659?cmp=rss

Climate change will help more diseases like COVID-19 jump from animals to humans, UN experts say

Land degradation, wildlife exploitation, intensive farming and climate change are driving the rise in diseases that, like the novel coronavirus, are passed from animals to humans, United Nations experts said on Monday.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/coronavirus-pandemic-climate-change-1.5639382?cmp=rss

COVID-19 pandemic threatens to set back battle against AIDS by 10 years, UN warns

The global fight against AIDS was faltering even before the new coronavirus pandemic, and it now threatens to put progress against HIV back by 10 years or more, the United Nations AIDS agency said Monday.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/aids-hiv-coronavirus-united-nations-world-health-organization-1.5639212?cmp=rss

Trump demands Bubba Wallace apology, alleges noose incident was 'a hoax'

NASCAR's layered relationship with Donald Trump took a sharp turn Monday when the U.S. president blasted the series for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the sport's only full-time Black driver of perpetrating "a hoax" when a crew member found a noose in the team garage stall.

source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/trump-bubba-wallace-noose-apology-1.5639423?cmp=rss

White woman who called police on Black birder in NYC's Central Park charged with filing false report

Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a Black birdwatcher in Central Park after he asked her to put her dog on a leash, was charged Monday with filing a false report.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/white-woman-amy-cooper-nyc-central-park-charged-1.5639272?cmp=rss

Harvard announces all classes in 2020-21 academic year to be held online

Harvard University's freshman class will be invited to live on campus this fall, while most other undergraduates will be required to learn remotely from home, the Ivy League school announced Monday.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/harvard-school-year-coronavirus-1.5639034?cmp=rss

Trump-connected lobbyists reap more than $10B in U.S. federal pandemic aid, report finds

Forty lobbyists with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion US in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-connected-lobbyists-reap-10-billion-u-s-federal-pandemic-aid-1.5638786?cmp=rss

Electoral college voters can be punished for going rogue, U.S. Supreme Court rules

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states' popular vote winner in the Electoral College.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ussc-faithless-electoral-college-1.5638832?cmp=rss

German prosecutors ask for 3-year sentence for former concentration camp guard, now 93

German prosecutors say the trial of a 93-year-old former guard at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp proved he was an accessory to murder, and they called Monday for him to be given a three-year sentence.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/germany-trial-nazi-guard-1.5638801?cmp=rss

Hong Kong court denies bail to 1st person charged under new national security law

A Hong Kong court denied bail on Monday to the first person charged with inciting separatism and terrorism under the city's new national security law after he carried a sign saying "Liberate Hong Kong" and drove his motorbike into police.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hong-kong-protester-court-1.5638681?cmp=rss

Japan floods, mudslides kill at least 44 as streets turn to rivers

Torrential rain hit Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu on Monday, with at least one more river bursting its banks, as the death toll from three days of floods and mudslides rose to 44, including 14 at a seniors' home.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/japan-flood-mudslides-kyushu-1.5638685?cmp=rss

Coronavirus: What's happening around the world on Monday

India has overtaken Russia with the world's third-highest number of novel coronavirus cases at nearly 700,000, according to the latest data, as the outbreak shows no sign of slowing. Here is what's going on around the world.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-july-6-covid-19-1.5638644?cmp=rss

Oscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91

Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as The Untouchables and the epic Once Upon A Time In America, died on Monday. He was 91.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ennio-morricone-dead-91-1.5638652?cmp=rss

Statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass ripped from base in Rochester, N.Y., park

A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches, delivered in that city in 1852.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/statue-vandalize-park-1.5638637?cmp=rss

Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus outbreak

Egyptian security agencies have tried to stifle criticism about the authorities' handling of the coronavirus health crisis by the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/egypt-critics-coronavirus-1.5638627?cmp=rss

At least 2 killed in plane collision at Idaho lake

The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office says two people died and as many as six other people may be missing in a plane crash Sunday over Lake Coeur d'Alene.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/idaho-plane-crash-1.5638633?cmp=rss