Friday, April 22, 2022

Mosque bombing kills 33 Afghans amid weeks of renewed violence

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A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school. 



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/afghanistan-mosque-bombing-1.6427709?cmp=rss

Former brother-in-law charged in killing of Toronto-born law prof in Florida

Dan Markel

A Florida dentist was arrested Thursday on charges that he hired hit men eight years ago to kill his sister's ex-husband, a prominent law professor originally from Toronto, so she could move back to the Fort Lauderdale area from Tallahassee with her two children.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fla-markel-murder-1.6427819?cmp=rss

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene faces legal bid to oust her over alleged insurrection

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Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene entered a Georgia courtroom on Friday to face a challenge by a group of voters trying to block her from the ballot, citing a post-Civil War policy aimed at keeping insurrectionists from office.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/georgia-greene-case-capitol-riot-1.6427421?cmp=rss

What's at stake for Muslims in the French election

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Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate, has proposed a ban on Muslim women wearing headscarves in public — and she's in striking distance of upsetting Emmanuel Macron, France's current centrist president in Sunday's upcoming election.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nothing-is-foreign-april-22-1.6426217?cmp=rss