Wednesday, August 10, 2022

New Mexico Muslim community grapples with shock after Afghan immigrant arrested in killings

Albuquerque New Mexico Mosque

Muslims in New Mexico interviewed on Wednesday said they felt shock and shame at the arrest of a Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan in connection with the murders of four Muslim men.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-mexico-muslim-community-shock-1.6547877?cmp=rss

Hundreds take part in anti-Gazprom protest in Bulgarian capital

Demonstrators in Bulgaria showing opposition to Russian gas imports

Hundreds of Bulgarians took to the streets of Sofia on Wednesday to voice fears that the country's caretaker government could break with the policies of its pro-Western predecessor and revert to close energy ties with Russia.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/anti-gazprom-protest-bulgaria-russia-1.6547462?cmp=rss

France's Gironde region sees further evacuations in latest forest-fire battle

View of a wildfire burning near Belin-Beliet, France

Firefighters were battling a wildfire in southwestern France on Wednesday in a region known for its pine forests that was ravaged by flames last month.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/france-forest-fire-gironde-evacuations-1.6547133?cmp=rss

U.S. to give smaller doses of monkeypox vaccine amount to stretch limited supply

Monkeypox Vaccine

Health Canada yet to say whether it will follow U.S. in giving people one-fifth of the standard dose of monkeypox vaccine as it scrambles to immunize at-risk groups with limited vaccine supply.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/us-smaller-monkeypox-vaccine-doses-1.6547135?cmp=rss

Russian journalist who protested Ukraine war on state TV is charged

Marina Ovsyannikova

Russian authorities on Wednesday detained a former state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest against Moscow's war in Ukraine, and charged her with spreading false information about Russia's armed forces, her lawyer said on social media.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-invasion-day-168-1.6547028?cmp=rss

Amid the country's economic collapse, many Sri Lankans struggle to eat

Ranjani Subramanium and her daughters

While it's in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund to come to a bailout agreement, the Sri Lankan government is scrambling to scrape together enough money to keep the economy afloat.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/sri-lanka-food-fuel-economic-collapse-1.6545818?cmp=rss

'Waiting for our death': Afghan military lawyers beg Canada for help

Cory Moore and Tamar Boghossian

Ex-military legal officer Cory Moore helped 12 Afghan military lawyers and other staff apply for Canada's special one-year immigration program for Afghans. That program has since closed, but these families still don't have answers.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/afghan-lawyers-afghanistan-taliban-canada-special-immigration-program-limbo-1.6540365?cmp=rss