Thursday, December 22, 2022

Former Haiti PM Laurent Lamothe seeks to contest Canadian sanctions in Federal Court

Haiti Protests

Former Haitian prime minister Laurent Lamothe is asking a judge to strike down sanctions Canada imposed on him over claims he supported gangs that have unleashed a humanitarian crisis in Haiti.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/laurent-lamothe-haiti-sanctions-1.6696134?cmp=rss

Former White House aide says she was pressured by Trump allies to limit her Jan. 6 testimony

Capitol Riot Investigation

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described to the House Jan. 6 committee a wide-ranging pressure campaign from Donald Trump's allies aimed at influencing her cooperation with Congress and stifling potentially damaging testimony about him.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cassidy-hutchinson-trump-jan-6-testify-hearings-pressure-campaign-1.6695688?cmp=rss

TikTok confirms employees improperly accessed journalists' user data in hunt for leaks

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ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, says some of its employees accessed two U.S. reporters' data while trying to trace leaks of company information.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tiktok-employees-journalists-data-leaks-1.6695348?cmp=rss

Spain's 2.5B euro El Gordo lottery draw kicks off holiday season

CHRISTMAS-SEASON/SPAIN-LOTTERY-JACKPOT

Spain kicked off the winter holidays with its huge Christmas lottery known as El Gordo, and an unemployed Peruvian woman was among the winners of its top 400,000-euro ($578,800 Cdn) prizes Thursday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spain-christmas-lottery-el-gordo-1.6694877?cmp=rss

Men can compete in artistic swimming at Paris Olympics

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Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, World Aquatics said on Thursday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/artistic-swimming/men-can-compete-artistic-swimming-paris-olympics-1.6694881?cmp=rss

FTX founder Bankman-Fried back in U.S. as 2 associates plead guilty to fraud

FINTECH-CRYPTO/FTX-EXTRADITION

Two of Sam Bankman-Fried's top associates secretly pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and are co-operating with investigators, a federal prosecutor announced Wednesday as the crypto entrepreneur was extradited to the U.S. from the Bahamas.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ftx-founder-associates-fraud-1.6694807?cmp=rss

What are sanctions — and do they even work?

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You may have seen the word “sanctions” pop up in headlines a lot more lately. But do you know what sanctions are? How they work? Or, if they're effective? We’re here to tackle some of your basic questions about sanctions.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/ask-cbc/ask-faq-sanctions-1.6693984?cmp=rss