Monday, November 6, 2023

Captain found criminally negligent in deaths of 34 people in fire aboard California dive boat

A boat burns on the water at night.

A federal jury on Monday found a scuba dive boat captain criminally negligent in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/boylan-conception-fire-boat-trial-1.7020452?cmp=rss

2nd Denver-area police officer acquitted in death of Elijah McClain, who was injected with ketamine

A man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt poses for a portrait

A second Denver-area police officer was acquitted on Monday in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, who was put in a neck hold and injected with ketamine after being stopped by police as he walked home from a convenience store.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/elijah-mcclain-death-second-officer-acquitted-1.7020384?cmp=rss

'Britain's loneliest sheep' rescued after more than 2 years stranded at the bottom of a cliff

An extremely woolly sheep standing in an enclosure.

A sheep rescued after two years stranded at the bottom of a Scottish cliff is setting into her new "forever home" on a Scottish farm park. But animal rights activists say she belongs in a sanctuary where she won't be turned into "a spectacle."



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/loneliest-sheep-rescue-1.7020212?cmp=rss

Smoggy New Delhi to restrict vehicles to reduce air pollution

Smog obscures the Kartavya Path in New Delhi, India.

New Delhi will restrict use of vehicles next week to curb rising pollution as air quality in the Indian capital remained dangerously unsafe for a third consecutive day despite mitigation efforts.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-new-delhi-cars-pollution-1.7019669?cmp=rss

Climate protestors target Diego Velazquez painting at London's National Gallery

Two activists hit the glass protecting a painting.

Two climate change protesters were arrested Monday after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velazquez oil painting at London's National Gallery, police said Monday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/climate-protest-just-stop-oil-diego-velazquez-1.7019631?cmp=rss

2 killed, 2 hospitalized after explosion, fire at Canadian High Commission in Nigeria

Black plumes of smoke emitting from a white building.

An explosion at the The Canadian High Commission in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja killed two people and sent another two to hospital, according to the FCT Fire Service that responded to the call. 



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/two-killed-canadian-high-commisison-nigeria-1.7019572?cmp=rss

Donald Trump to take the stand to defend his business empire at New York civil trial

A man in a suit is shown looking downward in a closeup.

Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom on Monday, where he is expected to take the witness stand in a civil fraud trial that threatens to diminish the real-estate empire that built his reputation before he entered politics.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-testimony-ny-civil-trial-1.7019520?cmp=rss