Multiple people, including police officer, killed in Colorado supermarket shooting

Multiple people — including a police officer — were fatally shot on Monday afternoon at a Boulder, Colo., supermarket, police said.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/boulder-shooting-supermarket-1.5959889?cmp=rss

At least 137 people killed in villages near Niger's border with Mali

Gunmen aboard motorcycles have attacked a series of villages near Niger's troubled border with Mali, leaving at least 137 people dead in the deadliest violence to strike the African country in recent memory, the government announced Monday.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/niger-mali-attack-killed-1.5959720?cmp=rss

Michael Kovrig's closed trial in China

The trial of Canadian Michael Kovrig, who has been held in China for more than two years on espionage charges, wrapped up in a closed Beijing courtroom on Monday with the verdict to be announced at an unspecified later date.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/photos/michael-kovrig-s-closed-trial-in-china-1.5958978?cmp=rss

Australia floods drive thousands from their homes, with more rain on the way

Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters that have isolated dozens of towns in Australia's most populous state New South Wales and forced thousands to evacuate their homes as record rain continues to inundate the country's east coast.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia-new-south-wales-floods-1.5959048?cmp=rss

800-year-old moccasin connects Dene migrants to the American southwest

A strap of bison leather on a distinctly subarctic Dene moccasin in the 13th century suggests early Dene migrants from northwestern America travelled closer to the Apache and Navajo homelands than previously recorded.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/dene-migration-moccasin-1.5957499?cmp=rss

AstraZeneca says U.S. trial data shows its COVID-19 vaccine 79% effective

AstraZeneca says advanced trial data from a U.S. study on its COVID vaccine shows it is 79% effective.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/astrazeneca-oxford-trial-efficacy-1.5958717?cmp=rss

Netanyahu tries to inoculate himself against defeat as Israel's voters head to polls in pandemic

As Israel holds its fourth election in two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, is currently on trial in three separate cases involving fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. He's hoping that the country's vaccination program will bring him victory on Tuesday.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-election-netanyahu-voters-pandemic-1.5958398?cmp=rss

CRA sending info about bank accounts to the IRS that don't have to be reported

The Canada Revenue Agency has been reporting hundreds of thousands of Canadian bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, despite the fact that they fall below the mandatory reporting level provided for in an agreement between Canada and the United States.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tax-fatca-canada-u-s-1.5957194?cmp=rss

Miami Beach extends COVID-19 curfew in bid to control rowdy spring break crowds

Thousands of people have packed the city's Art Deco Cultural District causing bedlam and lawlessness in recent days when university students typically celebrate spring break, leading some businesses to close voluntarily out of concern for public safety.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/miami-beach-spring-break-curfew-covid-19-1.5958631?cmp=rss