Monday, August 15, 2022

Police investigate son of prime suspect in New Mexico killings of Muslim men

Albuquerque Muslim Community Unity

Police believe the son of the prime suspect in the killings of four Muslim men may have played a role in the murders, which have shaken the Muslim community in New Mexico's largest city.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/albuquerque-muslim-killings-son-1.6552160?cmp=rss

Fatal film-set shooting by actor Alec Baldwin was an accident, medical investigator finds

USA-ENTERTAINMENT/

A New Mexico medical investigator ruled the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by actor Alec Baldwin last year was an accident, but it remains unclear why the gun was loaded with live ammunition.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/rust-shooting-alec-baldwin-accident-1.6552043?cmp=rss

Separated by India's partition 75 years ago, brothers just want to spend remaining time together

Sikka and Sadiq Khan

Social media and the work of younger generations are helping relatives in India and Pakistan separated by the violence of the partition of India in 1947 and a hostile border find each other. We spoke to two brothers reunited earlier this year who hope to spend what time they have left on the same side of the border.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-independence-75-anniversary-1.6549624?cmp=rss

Kenya's Ruto declared president as some election officials disown results

Kenya Elections

After last-minute chaos that could foreshadow a court challenge, Kenya's electoral commission chairman on Monday declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kenya-election-president-ruto-1.6551452?cmp=rss

Wildfire rages through southeastern Spain

Wildfire rages through southeastern Spain

About 1,200 people have been driven out of their homes in parts of Valenicia, Spain as firefighters in the southeast try to contain three separate wildfires.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/wildfire-rages-through-southeastern-spain-1.6551433?cmp=rss

R. Kelly jury selection underway for charges he rigged 2008 state trial

R Kelly

Jury selection has begun at R. Kelly's federal trial in his hometown of Chicago. The singer faces charges that he rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening and paying off a girl who he allegedly filmed himself having sex with when he was about 30 and she was no older than 14.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/r-kelly-obstruction-trial-1.6551384?cmp=rss

British regulator 1st to authorize Moderna's updated COVID booster

Britain COVID Vaccine

British health authorities are the first to approve Moderna's combination "bivalent" COVID-19 vaccine.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/uk-approval-dual-covid-vaccine-1.6551316?cmp=rss

China announces new military drills near Taiwan as U.S. delegation visits Taipei

TAIWAN-USA/

China announced more military drills around Taiwan as the self-governing island's president met with members of a new U.S. congressional delegation on Monday. The move threatens to renew tensions between Beijing and Washington after a similar recent visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi angered China.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/taiwan-china-more-drills-us-visit-1.6551224?cmp=rss

A year after Taliban takeover, advisers still pleading for help to bring families to Canada from Afghanistan

Zamarai Nikzad

Some 45 language and cultural advisers were directly recruited by Canada's Department of National Defence to carry out dangerous assignments during the war in Afghanistan. Now, the Taliban is chasing some of their families in Afghanistan.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/taliban-families-former-advisers-1.6550131?cmp=rss

Iran denies involvement in attack on author Salman Rushdie

Iran Salman Rushdie

An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, in remarks that were the country's first public comments on the attack.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/rushdie-stabbed-iran-1.6551198?cmp=rss