Thursday, May 5, 2022

Israel launches manhunt for 2 Palestinians suspected of stabbing rampage

Israel Attack

Israeli security forces were waging a massive manhunt Friday for two Palestinians suspected of carrying out a stabbing rampage near Tel Aviv that left three Israelis dead.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-elad-deadly-attack-1.6443659?cmp=rss

Bolsonaro says party wants audit of Brazil's voting system before election

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at Planalto Palace in May 2022

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that his political party will seek to audit the electronic voting system before the upcoming election amid concerns he is actively sowing distrust in its eventual results.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-bolsonaro-voting-system-audit-1.6443525?cmp=rss

Israeli PM says Russia's Putin apologizes for minister's remarks about Hitler

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairing a meeting in Moscow in May 2022

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow's top diplomat.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-putin-apology-lavrov-holocaust-remarks-1.6442754?cmp=rss

At least 3 dead, more wounded in stabbing attack near Tel Aviv

Emergency responders at the scene of an attack in Elad, Israel

Israeli medics say at least three people were killed in a stabbing attack near Tel Aviv on Thursday night.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-elad-deadly-attack-1.6442831?cmp=rss

Pandemic death toll at end of 2021 may have hit 15 million people, WHO estimates

Virus Outbreak India

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of six million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/who-excess-death-modelling-1.6442146?cmp=rss

As Fed issues rate hike, more warnings that stagflation is coming to North America

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/POWELL

Big rate hikes by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada have yet to quell inflationary expectations, and warnings grow that the weird combination of inflation and economic stagnation could be returning to Canada.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/fed-stagflation-column-don-pittis-1.6440784?cmp=rss

Woman pulled from rubble almost 6 days after China building collapse

China Building Collapse

Rescuers in central China have pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a building that partially collapsed almost six days earlier, state media reports.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-building-collapse-1.6442074?cmp=rss

How the U.S. Supreme Court could suffer long-lasting damage from the Roe v. Wade leak

State of the Union

A leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion suggesting that the justices might overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision has shocked court observers over the unprecedented security breach and prompted questions about whether the court has suffered permanent damage to its legitimacy.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/roe-wade-leak-supreme-court-1.6441513?cmp=rss

Democrats want to 'codify' Roe v. Wade. What does that mean — and could they do it?

USA-ABORTION/

Hours after news broke Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court might be on the verge of overturning nearly 50 years of constitutional rights to abortion in that country, there were demands on the Biden administration to "codify" Roe v. Wade, or simply "codify" abortion rights into law. Here's what that means.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/abortion-us-codify-roe-v-wade-women-s-health-protection-act-1.6441616?cmp=rss