Saturday, March 5, 2022

Legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski falls to North Carolina in final home game

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North Carolina spoiled the emotional home finale of retiring Hall of Fame Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski at Cameron Indoor Stadium, beating the fourth-ranked Blue Devils 94-81 on Saturday night.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/ncaa-mens-basketball-unc-duke-coach-k-last-game-1.6374576?cmp=rss

MasterCard, Visa suspend operations in Russia over invasion of Ukraine

UKRAINE-CRISIS/BANKS

MasterCard and Visa suspend operations in Russia in latest blow to country's financial system after invasion of Ukraine.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/visa-mastercard-suspend-operations-russia-ukraine-invasion-1.6374504?cmp=rss

More than 1,000 vehicles gather outside Washington to protest COVID-19 measures

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-TRUCKERS

More than a thousand large trucks, recreational vehicles and cars are gathering on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., on Saturday as part of a protest against COVID-19 restrictions that threatens to roll on the U.S. capital in the coming days.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/peoples-convoy-washington-covid-19-1.6374362?cmp=rss

How successive U.S. administrations all dragged their heels in arming Ukraine

Ukraine Tensions

Since the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations in the U.S. have all, to some degree, delayed or balked at sending lethal aid to Ukraine — raising questions about whether a better armed Ukraine could have provided a deterrent to a Russian invasion.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obama-trump-biden-ukraine-military-aid-1.6371378?cmp=rss

Ex-Kentucky officer found not guilty of endangering neighbours during raid that killed Breonna Taylor

Attorney Stewart Mathews and former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison

A former Kentucky police officer was found not guilty Thursday on charges he endangered neighbours the night he fired into Breonna Taylor's apartment during a botched drug raid that resulted in Taylor's death.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kentucky-louisville-police-officer-verdict-deadly-raid-breonna-taylor-1.6371505?cmp=rss