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Source: CBS News
No arrests have been made, but Baton Rouge police believe the early morning attack was "targeted."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooting-baton-rouge-dior-bar-lounge/
Just another day in firearms-soaked America.
Russia sends drug addicts to war to up mobilization numbers
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Russia is sending drug addicts to war in an effort to meet its mobilization quota, according to the Ukrainian Center of National Resistance.
Read more: https://www.jpost.com/international/article-729122
The information about the massive mobilization of drug addicts was confirmed by a Russian soldier who surrendered to Ukrainian forces.
Spanish Authorities Smash Ring Exploiting Ukrainians Who Fled War
Source: Radio Free Europe
Spanish police have broken up a gang that operated three illegal tobacco factories employing Ukrainians who fled to escape Russia's invasion. The gang leaders lived "a life of luxury" in the resort of Marbella.
Read more: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-refugees-spain-police-tobacco-ring-smashed/32234538.html
Man's inhumanity to man: slave labor, exploitation, intimidation. These perfidious miscreants took advantage of suffering refugees fleeing a war-zone.
Activists call for US apology for Marshall Islands nuclear tests
Source: Radio New Zealand
Over one-hundred activist groups, including Greenpeace, Veterans for Peace, and the Arms Control Association have signed a letter, calling on Pres Biden to apologize for nuclear tests conducted in the Marshall Islands. Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear tests were carried out on Bikini Atoll and 44 near Enewetak Atoll.
Read more: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/482919/activists-call-for-us-apology-for-marshall-islands-nuclear-tests
The nuclear testing has led to serious illnesses over time such as radiation poisoning, elevated cancer rates, birth defects, and the contamination of food and water sources continues to this day.
Al-Shabab: US air strike in Somalia 'kills 30 militants'
Source: BBC News
US Africa Command reports an air strike in support of government troops in Somalia killed approximately 30 Islamist al-Shabab militants.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64362653
US and Somalia should expect reprisal attacks from al-Shabab.
Canada settles residential schools lawsuit for $2.8bn
Source: BBC World News
Canada has agreed to pay CAD2.8bn (USD2.9bn) to settle a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation for the loss of language and culture caused by its residential school system.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64362246
Can you imagine a story like this in the US?
Woman arrested after killing terminally ill husband inside Florida hospital
Source: Yahoo!News
Police say a woman fatally shot her terminally ill husband inside his Daytona Beach hospital room on Saturday, then barricaded herself in his room before being arrested.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/woman-arrested-shooting-killing-terminally-235418374.html
The husband was allegedly suffering and unable to kill himself, so his wife agreed to shoot him, and then herself.
Tragic.
Tennessee fires officials after damning death penalty report
Source: BBC News
Tennessee fired two top officials after a report revealed numerous errors in the state's lethal injection system. Drugs used in Tennessee's lethal injections were not properly tested for contaminants.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64347169
Per Amnesty Int'l: 56 countries retain death penalty laws and carry out executions.
Per World Atlas: 51 countries provide universal health care for its citizens.
Guess where the US is on both lists?
Japanese baseball fans try to save stadium Babe Ruth played in
Tokyo, Japan: Thousands of baseball fans have signed a petition to save the iconic Meiji Jingu Stadium in Tokyo, which is nearly a century old and was where Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig once played in 1934.
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/273411229/japanese-baseball-fans-try-to-save-stadium-babe-ruth-played-in
Brazil's army chief fired in aftermath of capital uprising
Source: The Associated Press
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil’s army chief Saturday just days after the leftist leader openly said that some military members allowed the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-politics-brazil-government-caribbean-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-42151a9c0ea511391b990a9527754c1e?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_05
The imminent summit between Pres Biden and Pres Lula is going to be fruitful. I hope Pres Lula brings two arrest warrants with him.
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