Sunday, August 21, 2022

Ford will appeal $1.7 billion US verdict in civil lawsuit after deadly F-250 pickup truck crash

Ford-Truck Crash Verdict

Ford Motor Co. plans to appeal a $1.7 billion US verdict in a years long civil case against the automaker after a 2014 pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple, a company representative said Sunday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ford-appeal-crash-verdict-1.6558052?cmp=rss

Flash flooding kills dozens in Afghanistan, Pakistan

Afghanistan Floods

Heavy flooding from seasonal monsoon rains in eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring parts of Pakistan left dozens of people dead overnight, according to local officials on Sunday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/afghanistan-pakistan-deadly-flooding-1.6557878?cmp=rss

Singapore to repeal colonial-era law banning sex between men

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Singapore announced Sunday it will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law, while also protecting the city-state's definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/singapore-repealing-ban-on-gay-sex-1.6557865?cmp=rss

Somali forces end 30-hour hotel siege, free trapped civilians

Somalia Extremist Attack

Somali authorities on Sunday ended a deadly attack in which at least 20 people were killed and many others wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/somalia-hotel-attack-ends-1.6557794?cmp=rss

Daughter of Putin ally killed in suspected car bomb attack near Moscow

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The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow on Saturday evening, Russian state investigators said on Sunday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-1.6557789?cmp=rss