Israel establishes diplomatic tie with Bhutan, newspaper says

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel has established diplomatic relations with Bhutan, a majority-Buddhist nation neighbouring India, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported on Saturday.

A spokeswoman for Israel’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-bhutan/israel-says-it-has-established-diplomatic-ties-with-bhutan-idUSKBN28M0NK?il=0

β€˜You have 15 seconds to comply’: NYPD says new robotic cop dog will β€˜save lives’ as netizens warn of sci-fi dystopia

Pro-Trump groups to march and pray to protest president’s election loss

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative groups that allege without evidence that President-elect Joe Biden stole the U.S. election from Donald Trump plan protests nationwide on Saturday, including a Washington rally headlined by Trump’s recently pardoned former national security adviser.

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-protests/pro-trump-groups-to-march-and-pray-to-protest-presidents-election-loss-idUSKBN28M0E5?il=0

United Airlines flight attendants raise alarm on crew quarantine protocols

β€œMost of us feel that’s unsafe,” said one of the employees. Reuters also viewed around a dozen comments in a private online group for United flight attendants, which expressed unease and frustration about loose quarantine and contact tracing protocols by the airline.

United’s major rival American Airlines, by contrast, removes all crew from service when they have worked with an infected person, a policy decision American flight attendants and the union representing them affirmed.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-airlines-workers-focu/united-airlines-flight-attendants-raise-alarm-on-crew-quarantine-protocols-idUSKBN28L1HE?il=0

Police arrest three people after 21 migrants found in Spanish sweat shop

MADRID (Reuters) – Twenty one migrants have been found hidden in a sweat shop in Spain where they were forced to work long hours in unhygienic conditions for two euros ($2.40) per hour, police said on Saturday.

Migrant workers were hidden behind large bundles of clothes at the factory in Murcia, southeastern Spain, which sold clothes to African countries, police video footage showed.

https://www.reuters.com/article/europe-migrants-spain-factory/police-arrest-three-people-after-21-migrants-found-in-spanish-sweat-shop-idUSKBN28M0LX?il=0

Trump schemes next political moves after effort to overthrow democracy dead ends at Supreme Court

(CNN)President Donald Trump’s effort to unravel democracyΒ hit a dead endΒ at the Supreme Court Friday night, capping five weeks in which he dragged the country along on his narcissistic quest to stay in power after President-elect Joe Biden overwhelmingly won the election.In the end, the guardrails of democracy stayed in place. Trump lost — forΒ the second timeΒ at the Supreme Court this week. But instead of helping the effort to curb a deadly pandemic that has claimed nearly 300,000 American lives by easing the transition for his successor, he is already scheming about his next political moves. Before the high court rejected his bid Friday, his campaign announced a cable ad buy to further his fraudulent claims about the election, and he clearly intends to try and meddle in Congress’ counting of the Electoral College results in January.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/12/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-pfizer-vaccine/index.html

β€˜We might get thrown out of NATO’: Twitter baffled & divided over UK govt idea to send warships against EU fishermen

Debates broke out on Twitter over the news that the Royal Navy was ready to deploy British patrol vessels to confront European fishing boats after a β€˜no-deal’ Brexit.

London has until December 31 to hammer out a free-trade deal with the EU, and fisheries remain one of the most contentious issues. While the EU wants to secure the decades-old quota system which allows European boats to operate in British waters, the UK wishes to make its waters more exclusive to British fishermen.

https://www.rt.com/uk/509485-uk-navy-ship-fisheries/

Ontario reports 1,873 new COVID-19 cases with increase in tests completed

Ontario is reporting 1,873 new cases of COVID-19 today, a slight rise from the 1,848 cases yesterday.

The most new cases are in Toronto (522), Peel Region (436), York Region (185), and Hamilton(109).

There were 1,918 resolved cases reported.

The province says it conducted over 65,000 tests in the previous day.