Monday, June 10, 2024

Hospital treating war victims in Sudan shuts down after rebels attack

Two men, pictured from behind wearing "Medicines Sans Frontiers" vests, stand in a tent full of wounded people.

On Sunday, rebels from the Rapid Support Forces (paramilitary Group stormed the South Hospital in the city of El Fasher, opened fire, looted drugs and medical equipment, and made off with an ambulance, says Doctors Without Borders.



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/sudan-hospital-attack-1.7230567?cmp=rss

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, at centre of controversial murder conviction, gets parole hearing

A sign is shown near an iron fence outside the White House as several people are shown gathering. The sign reads, 'Free Leonard Peltier.'

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has a parole hearing Monday at a federal prison in Florida.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/peltier-parole-hearing-1.7230108?cmp=rss

Former chief justice Beverley McLachlin to step down from controversial Hong Kong court

Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin has announced her retirement from the controversial Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. 



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/beverly-mclachlin-to-step-down-hong-kong-court-1.7230103?cmp=rss

Caitlin Clark shrugs off U.S. Olympic team omission, hopes to make it one day

A woman basketball player.

Caitlin Clark hopes to play for the U.S. Olympic team one day. It just won't be in Paris next month.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/basketball/caitlin-clark-reaction-olympic-women-basketball-1.7229737?cmp=rss