Tuesday, May 17, 2022

In line to join NATO, Sweden and Finland are facing some 'vulnerable' months

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Finland and Sweden have started the process to become full-fledged members of NATO, with all the privileges and responsibilities membership entails. But the next few months will be anxious ones as both countries wait to see how Moscow reacts.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sweden-finland-nato-russia-ukraine-putin-1.6455449?cmp=rss

B.C. company reports no survivors found in refuge chamber after Burkina Faso mine flood

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The Vancouver-based mining company says rescue workers, who have been working 24 hours a day to remove water from the mine, reached the refuge 570 metres below ground but found no one inside.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trevali-mine-no-survivors-1.6456744?cmp=rss

Biden condemns 'poison' of white supremacy in visit to Buffalo after mass shooting

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U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned the "poison" of white supremacy and said the nation must "reject the lie" of the racist theory espoused by the shooter who murdered 10 Black Americans in Buffalo.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/buffalo-shooting-biden-1.6454029?cmp=rss

Russia poised to take control of Mariupol as Ukraine surrenders steel plant

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Ukraine's military said on Tuesday it was working to evacuate all remaining troops from their last stronghold in the besieged port of Mariupol, ceding control of the city to Russia after months of bombardment.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-1.6455969?cmp=rss

Are aliens living among us? The U.S. government wants to know

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A senior Defence Department intelligence official said on Tuesday the Pentagon is committed to determining the origins of what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena" in the first public congressional hearing in more than 50 years on what are commonly known as UFOs.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/united-states-congress-ufo-hearings-1.6456034?cmp=rss

'I knew that death was coming': Eagles of Death Metal singer testifies about Paris concert attack

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The U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal were midway through their set when Islamist militants sprayed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris with gunfire, cutting down revellers, frontman Jesse Hughes recounted before a French court on Tuesday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/paris-terrorism-trial-eodm-1.6456089?cmp=rss

Queen Elizabeth makes surprise appearance to mark new London subway line

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Queen Elizabeth, who at age 96 has reduced most of her public engagements, made a surprise visit Tuesday to a train station in central London to see a newly completed subway line named in her honour.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/queen-elizabath-subway-1.6456014?cmp=rss

Jason Kenney makes a timely pitch for Alberta oil to U.S. senators. But will it work?

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With skyrocketing gas prices, Washington scrambling for more oil and the U.S. midterm elections around the corner, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's appearance before a U.S. Senate committee to pitch his province's oil couldn't come at a better time.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jason-kenney-us-senate-committee-oil-1.6455531?cmp=rss