Tens of thousands of young scouts to evacuate world jamboree in South Korea as storm looms

Tens of thousands of scouts, including attendees from Canada, will be evacuated from a coastal South Korean jamboree site as tropical storm Khanun looms.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/world-scout-jamboree-1.6929665?cmp=rss

Niger's junta shuts airspace, ignores deadline to reinstate ousted president

Niger's mutinous soldiers closed the country's airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing an attack, as the junta defied a deadline to restore the ousted president and said any attempt to fly over the country will be met with "an energetic and immediate response."

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/niger-junta-airspace-president-1.6929660?cmp=rss

Trump lawyer, Pence spar over former president's election certification request

Donald Trump's defence lawyer says the former president never asked Mike Pence to overturn the will of voters in the 2020 election, but only wanted the then vice-president to "pause" the certification of votes to allow states to investigate his claims of election fraud. Those baseless claims had already been rejected by numerous courts.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-pence-election-charges-lauro-1.6929466?cmp=rss

Defending champion U.S. bounced from Women's World Cup as Sweden advances on penalties

The United States played its best game of this Women's World Cup and it wasn't good enough to stop the two-time reigning champions from being eliminated in the Round of 16.

source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/worldcup/sweden-united-states-world-cup-knockout-round-1.6929341?cmp=rss

Canada suspends all direct funding to Niger's government after coup

Ottawa has announced it will stop providing financial assistance to Niger's government in the wake of a military coup in the West African country.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-niger-1.6929328?cmp=rss