News to Me June 23, 2021 You can only hold back the bad news for so long. It’s not all bad though ‘Heartless’ Queensland bars US couple from seeing dying father – BBC News HMS Defender: Russian jets and ships target British warship – BBC News Dozens killed after air strike on market in Ethiopia’s Tigray region Southern African nations agree to deploy forces to Mozambique | Conflict News | Al Jazeera Elephants’ 500km-trek across China baffles scientists – BBC News Hong Kong’s Apple Daily print edition announces closure after police raid ‘Sabotage attack’ on Iranian nuclear building foiled | Nuclear Energy News | Al Jazeera Residents of Goma suffer health complications from Nyiragongo Volcanic eruption | Africanews Protesters in Colombia turn to town hall meetings for solutions | Poverty and Development News | Al Jazeera Mali: Female prisoners get vocational training | Africanews Scientists identify 29 planets where aliens could observe Earth | Astronomy | The Guardian US migrant camp ‘kids feel like they’re in prison’ – BBC News Unvaccinated Missourians fuel COVID: ‘We will be the canary’ Supreme Court rules for cheerleader who lashed out at school on Snapchat in major free speech case | The Independent SCOTUS Refuses ‘To Print a New Permission Slip for Entering the Home Without a Warrant’ – Reason.com IPCC steps up warning on climate tipping points in leaked draft report | Climate change | The Guardian
News To Me – 11/24 News to me links for November 24th, 2020 South Korean delivery workers say coronavirus boom means relentless toil | Reuters Two hurt in knife attack in Swiss city of Lugano – police | Reuters French police to investigate ‘brutal’ dispersal of Paris migrant camp Two blasts kill seven in Syrian rebel-held northwest near Turkish border | Reuters Hundreds killed in massacre in Ethiopia’s Tigray, rights body says After weeks of delay, formal transition of power to Biden begins | Reuters Germany, Turkey trade accusations over interception of Turkish vessel | Reuters Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of using banned weapons – Focus Paris police in ‘shocking’ clash at migrant camp – BBC News ‘He was a radical’: John Belushi remembered by his wife and fellow comics | Comedy | The Guardian Omaha police chief says officers acted appropriately in shooting Black man | Nebraska | The Guardian ‘We’re drowning’: COVID cases flood hospitals in America’s heartland | Reuters Revealed: Trump officials rush to mine desert haven native tribes consider holy | Environment | The Guardian Ford orders 12 ultra-cold freezers to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to employees | Reuters New York’s Andrew Cuomo cancels Thanksgiving with 89-year-old mother after Covid backlash | Andrew Cuomo | The Guardian Man at centre of South Australia Covid lockdown ‘extremely remorseful and deeply sorry’ | South Australia | The Guardian Tensions Grow Again in the Western Sahara 650 bodies stored in freezer trucks for months in New York City disaster morgue – World Socialist Web Site JPMorgan Chase to pay $250 million for failings in asset, wealth business | Reuters Biden names national security team of right-wing militarists – World Socialist Web Site Texas Is Once Again Ground Zero for the Abortion Rights Fight – Rewire News Group Betting Pool? Tyson Managers Bet on How Many Workers Would Get COVID. Advocates Call It Grim Pattern | Democracy Now! A month after being hired at suburban Detroit Fiat Chrysler plant, worker dies from COVID-19 – World Socialist Web Site David Dinkins: NYC’s first and only Black mayor dies aged 93 | The Independent Dianne Feinstein to step away from Senate Judiciary Committee leadership role after Barrett hearings | Salon.com The moral case for diversity in newsrooms also makes good business sense » Nieman Journalism Lab California Cops Arrested Teens Who Recorded Use of Force—Now They’re Getting Paid – Reason.com The bad place | Reveal