Saturday, December 2, 2023

Prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj arrested again by regime forces, his whereabouts unknown

A man with dark hair and facial hair, wearing jeans, a black T-shirt and a silver necklace, poses for a portrait under an underpass.

Prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime, has been arrested again less than two weeks after being freed on bail, after spending more than a year in prison, according to a close confidante.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-toomaj-rapper-arrest-1.7047425?cmp=rss

As temperatures rise, dengue fever infections keep surging around the world

An Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.

The explosive spread of dengue offers a case study in how climate change, human movement, and rising temperatures are all coaligning to fuel the expansion of potentially deadly threats to human health.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/dengue-fever-climate-change-1.7043918?cmp=rss

Friday, December 1, 2023

Sheet music written by Auschwitz prisoners collected dust for decades. This British composer restored it

A white piece of sheet music, with black music notes filling the bars of the page. There's a hole in the middle of the page and the bottom edge is scorched.

After eight years spent recovering the documents, Leo Geyer finally brought one of the pieces to an audience. He hopes the music helps people better understand Holocaust history.



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/sheet-music-written-by-auschwitz-prisoners-collected-dust-for-decades-this-british-composer-restored-it-1.7046374?cmp=rss

Israeli soldier mistakenly shot civilian who fired on Hamas gunmen at Jerusalem bus stop: police

Israeli police officers and members of the Zaka rescue service are seen at the scene of a shooting attack at a Jerusalem bus stop.

An Israeli soldier apparently mistook an Israeli civilian who opened fire on one of two Hamas gunmen shooting at people at Jerusalem bus stop for a third assailant and fatally wounded him, Israeli police said on Friday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-civilian-killed-by-soldier-jerusalem-1.7046525?cmp=rss

Counting sheep, and their burps, may help lower global methane emissions

Five sheep in an indoor pen look at the camera.

Two years ago at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, global leaders pledged to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent. In the U.K., some of that work is happening on sheep farms in the English countryside.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sheep-methane-climate-cop28-1.7045185?cmp=rss