Thursday, May 23, 2024

Spinal surgeries needed for 22 on board turbulent Singapore Airlines flight, hospital says

A man with a white bandage around his head sits in a wheelchair being pushed by medical staff.

Several of the more seriously injured people who were on the Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence earlier this week will need spinal surgery, a Bangkok hospital said Thursday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/singapore-airlines-turbulence-passengers-hospital-update-1.7213352?cmp=rss

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Tornadoes leave 5 dead, at least 35 injured in Iowa

An aerial view shows the extent of the damage done in Greenfield, Iowa, where a tornado tore through a small town on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

Five people died and at least 35 were hurt as powerful tornadoes ripped through Iowa Tuesday, with one carving a path of destruction through the town of Greenfield, officials said.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iowa-greenfield-tornado-deaths-1.7212069?cmp=rss

Decades after Canada's tainted blood inquiry, the U.K. grapples with its own

A bearded man stands outside in a rust-orange raincoat, staring directly into the camera

For years, Jason Evans says people treated him like he was "crazy and a conspiracy theorist" when he talked about the contaminated blood scandal that killed his father.



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/uk-blood-scandal-1.7211241?cmp=rss

Families release footage of 5 female Israeli army conscripts taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7

A still image taken from video footage shows five women seated on the floor as a man in camouflage pants stands hunched over one of them tying her hands behind her back. A woman with long hair, at the right edge of the image, has blood on her face.

Israeli television aired previously withheld footage on Wednesday of five pyjama-clad female army conscripts being seized by Hamas gunmen during the Oct. 7 raid that triggered the Gaza war.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-hamas-hostages-video-1.7211516?cmp=rss

2nd human infected with H5N1 bird flu in U.S., CDC says

A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

A Michigan farm worker has been diagnosed with bird flu, becoming the second U.S. case tied to dairy cows.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/h5n1-human-infection-michigan-1.7211575?cmp=rss