Drone captures Iceland volcano's lava show

Thousands of visitors have been drawn to a volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula as it continues to spew out lava 10 days after erupting.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/drone-captures-iceland-volcano-s-lava-show-1.5969082?cmp=rss

Arkansas passes bill banning doctors from providing some treatments to transgender youth

Arkansas lawmakers passed a measure on Monday that could make the state the first in the country to prevent doctors from providing certain types of care to transgender youth, part of a wave of U.S legislation that would restrict transgender rights.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/arkansas-anti-trans-bill-1.5968993?cmp=rss

Russian hackers found to have accessed email of U.S. Homeland Security head, cybersecurity staff

Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration's head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and members of the department's cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries, The Associated Press has learned.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russian-hack-solarwinds-us-government-1.5968734?cmp=rss

Head of CDC warns pandemic could get worse, urges public to change trajectory

U.S. officials issued what was intended to be a sobering warning Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic could get a lot worse. Their unusually emotional message carried obvious international implications, especially given that the U.S. has already vaccinated its citizens at a rate triple Canada's.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-officials-pandemic-warning-1.5968462?cmp=rss

Richest Czech man among 5 killed in Alaska helicopter crash

A contracted helicopter carrying guides and guests from a lodge on a heli-skiing trip in Alaska's backcountry crashed, killing the pilot and four others, including the Czech Republic's richest man.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/five-killed-alaska-helicopter-crash-1.5968115?cmp=rss

China welcomes UN visit to Xinjiang, but opposes investigation

A spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry says the country would welcome the UN Human Rights Commissioner to Xinjiang, the region of China where the government is accused of committing genocide against the Uyghur minority, but said the visit should be to "promote exchanges and cooperation."

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-un-xinjiang-human-rights-1.5968002?cmp=rss

COVID-19 most likely derived from animal-to-human transmission: draft report of WHO-China study

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is "extremely unlikely," according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/who-draft-report-1.5967914?cmp=rss

Minneapolis struggles to change policing as officer's trial set to begin

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/minneapolis-reform-update-1.5967725?cmp=rss

Raqqa, once the home base of ISIS, still traumatized as it tries to regain normalcy

Three years after Raqqa's liberation from Islamist militants by Syrian Kurdish forces and 10 years after the start of the Syrian civil war, the city that was once the home base for ISIS is struggling to come back to life.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/raqqa-reuild-isis-syrian-civil-war-1.5966299?cmp=rss