Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse shot 1st man at close range, pathologist testifies

APTOPIX Kenosha Protest Shootings

The first man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha, Wis., was shot at a range of just a few feet and had soot injuries that could indicate he had his hand over the barrel of Rittenhouse's rifle, a pathologist testified Tuesday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-wisconsin-shooting-trial-1.6243435?cmp=rss

Oklahoma court overturns $465M opioid ruling against Johnson & Johnson

Opioid Lawsuit Oklahoma

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465-million US opioid ruling against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, finding that a lower court wrongly interpreted the state's public nuisance law in the first case of its kind in the U.S. to go to trial.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/opioid-johnson-and-johnson-ruling-overturned-1.6243072?cmp=rss

With new climate pledges, the world is on track for 2.4 C of warming, analysis finds

California Wildfires

The latest national pledges submitted to the UN climate conference in Glasgow to tackle climate change this decade would lead to around 2.4 degrees Celsius of global warming this century, far above safe levels, analysts said on Tuesday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/warming-climate-action-tracker-glasgow-1.6242911?cmp=rss

Ethiopia's Tigray conflict explained: How a year of bloodshed has sparked fears of a wider civil war

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The conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has spread through the north of the country at the cost of thousands of lives amid widespread reports of atrocities committed by all factions.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ethiopia-tigray-conflict-tflp-abiy-ahmed-1.6241519?cmp=rss

U.S. Republican lawmaker under fire for video attacking Ocasio-Cortez

Gosar Jan. 6

Twitter Inc. added a warning label on Tuesday to an anime video shared by U.S. Republican lawmaker Paul Gosar depicting him swinging swords at President Joe Biden and killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a post that has appalled the New York congresswoman and some of her Democratic colleagues.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gosar-ocasio-cortez-anime-video-1.6242381?cmp=rss

Migrants stuck at Poland-Belarus border deal with dropping temperatures as tensions rise

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Hundreds of migrants shivered in freezing temperatures and huddled around campfires on the Belarusian border with Poland on Tuesday in front of razor-wire fences and lines of Polish border guards blocking their entry into the European Union.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/poland-belarus-border-migrant-nov9-2021-1.6242223?cmp=rss

Climate talks struggle with gap between rich, poor countries

Climate COP26 Summit

It's time for the "high level" negotiations at the UN climate talks, when government ministers or other senior diplomats swoop in to make the political decisions that are supposed to break the technical logjams. Here's a look at the two sides.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/cop26-rich-poor-gap-1.6242259?cmp=rss

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

Virus Outbreak Germany

Germany's coronavirus infection rate has risen to its highest level since the start of the pandemic, public health figures showed on Monday, and doctors warned they will need to postpone scheduled operations in coming weeks to cope.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-nov9-2021-1.6242203?cmp=rss

How a made-in-Canada distress signal may have helped save the life of a North Carolina teen

Signal for help

A distress signal co-developed by the Canadian Women's Foundation and a Toronto ad agency is being credited with helping a missing teenage girl from North Carolina who was rescued by police after using the hand gesture to ask for help. It's believed she saw the signal on TikTok.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-distress-signal-teen-north-carolina-kentucky-1.6241242?cmp=rss