Tuesday, February 2, 2021

U.S. Capitol police officer who died following Jan. 6 riot lying in honour

USA-TRUMP/CAPITOL-SICKNICK

Slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was lying in honour in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening, allowing his colleagues and the lawmakers he protected to pay their respects and to remember the violent attack on Congress that took his life.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sicknick-capitol-attack-lying-in-honour-1.5898700?cmp=rss

U.S. groups tell Biden to drop the dairy duel with Canada

Dave's farm

Some U.S. groups want the new Biden administration to drop an American dairy duel with Canada. Biden's team faces a choice about whether to pursue a trade action launched late in the Trump era.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dairy-letter-biden-1.5898060?cmp=rss

Regulators to probe stock manipulation allegations as GameStop shares drop below $100

RETAIL-TRADING/ROBINHOOD-LIABILITY

The Canadian Securities Administrators and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada warned that they will act if they see manipulative activity on social media on stocks such as GameStop, which has taken investors on a wild ride in recent days.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stock-regulators-gamestop-1.5897433?cmp=rss

U.S. billionaire buys SpaceX flight for 1st all-civilian space mission

Private Spaceflight

A U.S. billionaire who made a fortune in tech and fighter jets is buying an entire SpaceX flight and plans to take three "everyday" people with him to circle the globe this year.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/jared-isaacman-private-spacex-flight-1.5897474?cmp=rss

Trump 'summoned a mob,' Democrats say in formal impeachment brief

USA-TRUMP/IMPEACHMENT

The U.S. House of Representatives Democrats who will prosecute former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial said in a brief filed on Tuesday he pointed a mob "like a loaded cannon" at the Capitol shortly before the deadly Jan. 6 rampage.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-impeachment-legal-briefs-1.5897559?cmp=rss

Capt. Tom Moore, who raised millions to fight pandemic, has died, family says

BRITAIN-ROYALS/VETERAN

Capt. Tom Moore, the British Second World War veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers on the frontline of the battle against COVID-19, has died at the age of 100, his family said on Tuesday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/captain-tom-moore-obit-1.5897602?cmp=rss

Breast cancer overtakes lung as most common cancer, WHO says

Virus Outbreak WHO

Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, accounting for nearly 12 per cent of new cases each year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-breast-lung-who-1.5897434?cmp=rss

Alexei Navalny accuses Russian government of intimidation tactics in court appearance

Russia Navalny

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny denounced a Moscow court hearing Tuesday on whether he should be sent to prison for years, calling it a vain attempt by the Kremlin to scare millions of Russians into submission.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-navalny-court-1.5897347?cmp=rss

FBI agents wounded in shooting in South Florida

FBI Shooting-Florida

Police in South Florida have swarmed a neighbourhood following a Tuesday morning shooting that wounded several FBI agents.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fbi-agents-wounded-in-shooting-in-south-florida-1.5897416?cmp=rss

Biden expected to announce task force to reunite separated migrant families

Biden Immigration Democrats

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced steps to address harm to thousands of families that were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, expanding efforts to quickly undo relentless changes to immigration policy over the last four years.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-biden-immigration-reforms-1.5897353?cmp=rss

U.K. steps up COVID-19 testing in hopes of stemming spread of new variant

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Britain begins a door-to-door COVID-19 testing of 80,000 people on Tuesday in a bid to stem the spread of a variant of the novel coronavirus first identified in South Africa.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-february2-2021-1.5897313?cmp=rss

Myanmar lawmakers say they're confined and under guard following coup

MYANMAR-POLITICS/

Hundreds of members of Myanmar's Parliament remained confined inside their government housing in the country's capital on Tuesday, a day after the military staged a coup and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/myanmar-military-coup-1.5895753?cmp=rss