News Headlines - 19 September 2019

▽U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan - Reuters

A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labour in the fields, officials said on Thursday.
The attack on Wednesday night also injured 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and labourers who had just finished collecting pine nuts at mountainous Wazir Tangi in eastern Nangarhar province, three Afghan officials told Reuters.

▽Fukushima disaster: Nuclear executives found not guilty - BBC News

More than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court has cleared three former executives of the firm operating the plant of professional negligence.
It was the only criminal case to arise out of the disaster, which was the worst since Chernobyl in 1986.
In 2011 a plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) was hit by a tsunami causing a triple meltdown... The three former executives - ex-chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 79, and vice-presidents Sakae Muto, 69 and Ichiro Takekuro, 73 - were indicted for failing to implement tsunami countermeasures leading to the deaths of 44 people.
Though no-one died directly in the nuclear meltdown, more than 40 hospital patients died after having to be rushed out of the evacuation zone.

▽DENSO, BlackBerry roll out integrated automotive HMI system - FutureIoT

DENSO Corporation and BlackBerry has announced that it has shipped the first integrated HMI digital cockpit system in new 2020 SUBARU Legacy and Outback vehicles that will come out this Autumn in the United States.
Called the DENSO Harmony Call and developed by BlackBerry and DENSO in collaboration with SUBARU, the new digital cockpit solution uses BlackBerry QNX Hypervisor (virtualisation) technology to enable integrated control of in-vehicle HMI systems. First revealed at CES in 2018, this blend of advanced software and human interaction creates a seamless automotive user experience as data-driven connected vehicles become our reality.

▽Boris Johnson 'glad' about new father's NHS confrontation - BBC News

In a conversation lasting around two minutes, the new father said the situation he had experienced at Whipps Cross was "not acceptable"... "The NHS has been destroyed... and now you come here for a press opportunity."
Mr Johnson said "there's no press here" but Mr Salem gestured to cameras filming the confrontation, and said: "What do you mean there's no press here? Who are these people?"

▽Cameron asked Queen to 'raise eyebrow' during Scottish independence referendum | The Guardian

David Cameron has said he did not ask the Queen for 'anything improper' after revealing that he suggested to her private secretary how the monarch could possibly influence the outcome of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, before she went on to make an intervention that was widely seen as having helped the faltering pro-union campaign... the former prime minister said a YouGov survey in September 2014, which put the campaign for independence in the lead for the first time, hit him 'like a blow to the solar plexus' and led to 'a mounting sense of panic'