At least 5 killed after SUV plows into Wisconsin holiday parade
By Aditi Sangal, Meg Wagner, Melissa Mahtani, Melissa Macaya and Mike Hayes, CNN
What we know so far: At least five people are dead and more than 40 others are injured after an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade, officials said.
There are indications the Waukesha suspect was fleeing another incident when he drove into the parade route, according to multiple law enforcement sources familiar with preliminary investigation findings.
Children’s Wisconsin, a pediatric hospital in Milwaukee, told CNN that 18 patients were taken to their facility following Sunday’s Christmas parade incident in Waukesha.
CNN had reported earlier that 15 patients were being treated at that hospital, with no fatalities as of Sunday night.
Peng Shuai: IOC accused of ‘publicity stunt’ over video call
Olympic body said tennis player was ‘safe and well’, as momentum grows for boycott of Winter Games
The International Olympic Committee has been accused of engaging in a “publicity stunt” over the wellbeing of the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, amid growing momentum behind a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The IOC, under increasing pressure to intervene in Peng’s case after the former doubles world No 1 accused a former senior Chinese government official of sexually assaulting her, held a video call with Peng on Sunday and subsequently announced she was “safe and well”.
Peng, whose whereabouts have been a matter of international concern for almost three weeks, appeared at a dinner with friends on Saturday and a children’s tennis tournament in Beijing on Sunday, photos and videos published by Chine
‘Vaccinated, recovered or dead’: German health minister’s grim warning as he urges people to get jab
More than 30,000 new infections were reported in the latest figures
Germans who don’t get vaccinated or survive a Covid-19 infection will probably be dead by the end of the winter, the country’s outgoing health minister, Jens Spahn, warned on Monday.
Spahn said that not enough Germans have been vaccinated against the virus, which has infected record numbers in the past two weeks, and he urged the millions who have up to now rejected the government’s offer, to reconsider their vaccine concerns.
“It’s quite probable by the end of the winter that pretty much everyone in Germany will have been vaccinated, have recovered or have died,” Spahn said, adding that the more infectious delta variant has made the situation more dangerous than earlier this year.
Brazil accused of 'greenwashing' the Amazon's deforestation
Deforestation in the Amazon region has risen for the fourth straight year, despite international pressure and pledges from Brazil's government to preserve the rainforest. The EU aims to take a stand with an import ban.
Despite recent headline-grabbing promises to protect its rainforest before the end of the decade, Brazil has once again seen a jump in deforestation.
The latest figures released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which tracks the state of the Amazon rainforest, showed a 22% increase from last year. Some 13,235 square kilometers (5,110 square miles) disappearing between August 1, 2020 and July 31, 2021. The new statistics were dated October 27 — before the start of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow — prompting environmental organizations like Greenpeace to accuse the Brazilian government of trying to clean up its image during the crucial talks.
Ex-hotel driver on trial in France over Rwanda genocide
A former hotel driver went on trial in Paris on Monday accused of complicity in Rwanda's 1994 genocide by transporting Hutu militiamen who massacred hundreds of Tutsis.
Claude Muhayimana, who investigators say also hid Tutsis at risk of death and helped some escape, fled after the genocide and gained French nationality in 2010.
Wearing jeans, a t-shirt and leather jacket, the 60-year-old spoke to confirm his identity on Monday and spent the rest of the hearing sat on a chair with his arms crossed.
He faces a life sentence if convicted.
The genocide, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, saw 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority slaughtered in just three months, in massacres orchestrated and inflamed by the authorities.
US must ‘accept reality’ and lift sanctions: Iran negotiator
The United States must “accept reality” and agree to lift its sanctions on Iran during next week’s nuclear talks in Vienna, according to Tehran’s top negotiator.
Representatives of Iran and the other signatories of its 2015 nuclear deal will be in Austria starting November 29 to try to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which the US abandoned in 2018.
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