Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Kremlin targets workers with Moscow's iconic Metro who support jailed opposition leader

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In Russia, the crackdown on anyone associated with imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has now entangled the Moscow Metro system after dozens or perhaps even hundreds of workers were fired in recent days after anonymously signing a petition calling for his freedom.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-metro-workers-navalny-1.6030979?cmp=rss

Top of famed Darwin's Arch off the Galapagos collapses

Ecuador Darwin's Arch

The famed Darwin's Arch in the Galapagos Islands has lost its top, and officials are blaming natural erosion of the stone.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/darwins-arch-collapse-1.6031500?cmp=rss

Midnight Run, Heartbreak Kid actor Charles Grodin dead at 86

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Charles Grodin, the droll, offbeat actor and writer who starred as a caddish newlywed in The Heartbreak Kid and the father in the Beethoven comedies, has died. He was 86.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/charles-grodin-dies-1.6031219?cmp=rss

No charges in fatal police shooting of Black motorist Andrew Brown, North Carolina prosecutor says

North Carolina Deputy Shooting

North Carolina sheriff's deputies were justified in their fatal shooting of a Black man in April because the man ignored their commands and drove his car directly at one of them before they fired any shots, a prosecutor said Tuesday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/andrew-brown-police-shooting-no-charges-1.6031076?cmp=rss

Colonial Pipeline hit by communications outage

USA-PRODUCTS/COLONIAL PIPELINE

A week after reopening from a cyberattack, the company that runs the biggest gasoline pipeline on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard says the communications system its customers use to monitor shipments has gone offline.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/colonial-pipeline-outage-1.6031067?cmp=rss

Investing in new coal, oil and gas projects must stop to hit climate goals, global energy agency says

Oilpatch Preview 20210418

A report by the International Energy Agency says immediate action is needed to reshape the world's energy sector in order to meet ambitious climate goals by 2050, including ending investments in new coal mines, oil and gas wells.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/energy-climate-change-iea-1.6030771?cmp=rss

Israel resumes airstrikes on Gaza, as Palestinian militants fire more rockets into Israel

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Israel bombarded Gaza with airstrikes and Palestinian militants resumed cross-border rocket fire on Tuesday after a brief overnight lull during which the United Nations sent a small fuel convoy into the enclave, where it says 52,000 people are now displaced.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-thai-workers-1.6030713?cmp=rss

Iceland to pass chair of Arctic Council to Russia

Arctic council foreign ministers

Ministers, delegates and representative will discuss the accomplishments of the Icelandic chair and are expected to sign the council's first ever strategic plan.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-council-iceland-1.6029980?cmp=rss

Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Tuesday

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India's total virus cases since the pandemic began swept past 25 million as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 fatalities in the last 24 hours.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-may18-2021-1.6030630?cmp=rss

India scours sea after barge sinks, 2nd adrift after cyclone

India Cyclone

The Indian navy is working to rescue crew members from a sunken barge and a second cargo vessel that was adrift Tuesday off the coast of Mumbai after a deadly cyclone struck the western coast.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-cyclone-barge-missing-1.6030621?cmp=rss