Friday, December 10, 2021

Deadly flooding drenches northern Spain

SPAIN-WEATHER/

Severe flooding in Spain's Navarre region submerged cars and houses and killed at least one person on Friday as heavy rains from Storm Barra caused rivers to burst their banks.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spain-weather-flood-1.6282183?cmp=rss

Survivors recall horror of Mexico truck crash that killed 55 migrants

USA-IMMIGRATION/MEXICO-ACCIDENT

Survivors of the horrific truck crash in Mexico that killed 55 migrants and injured more than a hundred recounted from their hospital beds how their location inside the truck determined who lived and who died.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-truck-crash-migrants-survivors-1.6281888?cmp=rss

Canada threatens U.S. with tariffs, partial suspension of USMCA over electric vehicle tax credit

COVID Cda 20200831

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has written to top U.S. senators threatening to suspend parts of the USMCA trade agreement and impose tariffs on American goods unless U.S. officials back away from a proposed tax credit for American-built electric vehicles.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-ng-threatens-us-senators-1.6281713?cmp=rss

Bob Dole remembered by Biden as 'man of principle, pragmatism' at funeral

Bob Dole

Bob Dole was honoured Friday at Washington National Cathedral as top leaders from both parties gathered to display the kind of bipartisanship now rare in modern government, a tribute to the longtime Kansas senator's ability to practise bare-knuckle politics without losing an overriding sense of civility.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bob-dole-memorial-1.6281074?cmp=rss

Texas abortion law remains in place, but Supreme Court says some challenges can proceed

Supreme Court Abortion Texas

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state's ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ussc-opinion-texas-abortion-1.6253943?cmp=rss