Friday, July 11, 2025

Boeing reaches settlement with Canadian whose family perished in 2019 plane crash

A December 2018 photo shows Paul Njoroge alongside his wife, three small children and his mother-in-law. He lost all of his loved ones in a 2019 plane crash.

Boeing reached a settlement on Friday with a Canadian man whose wife and three children were killed in a deadly 2019 plane crash in Ethiopia, averting the first trial connected to the devastating event that led to a worldwide grounding of Max jets.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/boeing-plane-crash-settlement-canadian-1.7583593?cmp=rss

Canadian doctors work in Gaza as fuel shortages threaten lives, hospitals

An infant receiving medical care, left, is seen next to an image of a Canadian doctor working Gaza, in this combination image

Two Canadian doctors, from Calgary and Montreal, have been treating patients at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza. These doctors and other health officials in the region say severe fuel shortages leave operating rooms without light, oxygen tanks without air and an overall inability to carry out basic medical treatment on patients in critical conditions.



source https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6829034?cmp=rss

UN reports nearly 800 deaths near Gaza aid hubs, humanitarian convoys in last 6 weeks

A young man carries a box of aid.

The UN human rights office said on Friday it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and near convoys run by other relief groups.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-ghf-aid-hubs-deaths-israel-gaza-1.7582652?cmp=rss