UK and US naval forces have repelled the largest attack yet by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea, the UK defence secretary says.
The Iran-backed group launched at least 21 drones and missiles overnight, according to the US military.
They were shot down by carrier-based jets and four warships, it added. No injuries or damage were reported.
As a mortgage broker, Ron Butler speaks to a lot of Canadians who are in transition periods in their life. He recently took to social media to share a concerning new trend, though: Canadians, particularly young people, abandoning the country.
It used to be that the transitions people made were moving homes or changing jobs. Now they’re moving countries.
Virginia Giuffre was paid £12,000 by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew, she has claimed in the latest release of documents from a New York court.
The accuser said the convicted paedophile paid her for sex with the Duke of York, and that she and him went to the Tramp nightclub in London together.
The allegations, released to the public for the first time on Tuesday, were made in a 2016 deposition given by Ms Giuffre in a lawsuit she brought against Alan Dershowitz, a legal scholar.
Settle in, voters of Canada: the next federal election likely won’t be until 2025. That’s an eon away in political terms, and anything — literally anything — can happen in that time. If you had said in January 2023 that one year later, the Middle East would be a warzone, the federal government would call a foreign interference inquiry and the Conservatives would be trouncing the Liberals at the polls, most people would have called you crazy — or at least hoped you were wrong about the first one.
A top Christian Democrat politician wants to amend the constitution if necessary, so that German taxes can be used to pay for mosques. Jens Spahn—a former minister and deputy leader of the opposition center-right CDU/CSU’s parliamentary group—sees public funding for mosques as a bulwark against overseas influence.
Beatrix von Storch of the AfD previously warned it would be a mistake to finance mosque associations using German taxpayers’ money. While she agreed that the financing of mosques by Turkey or Qatar must be banned immediately, she argued that Muslims in Germany should finance their own mosques with their own contributions.
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Lenin is reported to have joked that “when German revolutionaries have to capture a railway station, they first buy platform tickets at the booking-office.” Stereotypes are dangerous things, but the claim that Germans are less prone to revolutionary outbreaks than, say, the French is not entirely without merit.
Canada has reversed course after initially blocking a Russian anti-war activist from receiving citizenship because she had run afoul of Moscow’s harsh laws criminalizing dissent over the invasion of Ukraine.
Maria Kartasheva’s plight had baffled immigration lawyers and exposed the confusing reality of Canada’s immigration bureaucracy. Last year, the 30-year-old was charged and convicted by Russian prosecutors of violating a law barring criticism of the military. And even though her opinions mirrored Canada’s foreign policy, the conviction threatened to derail her application for Canadian citizenship.
“I’m being punished for writing what Canada believes is the truth about Russia’s actions,” she said.
It is 3 years since Kathy passed away on Jan 9 2021.
The weather kept me away from her resting place today but I will stop by on the weekend to visit and retrieve her Christmas wreath.
A copy of C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed caught my eye before Christmas, whether it was pushed or pulled into view by Kathy or the cat I cannot say. Maybe both had a hand in it.
Not the first time something seemed meant to catch my eye and not the first time a cat was involved.
From the inscription it was given by Kathy to her Mum Joan when K’s beloved Grandfather passed away. K always wished I had met him.
At any rate I am probably better off for having it fall into view.
It contains observations that shore up the soul having put to words a universal experience I could only clumsily describe:
“I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling, action after action, had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an arrow to the string, then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there’s an impassable frontierpost across it. So many roads once; now so many culs de sac.”
Worth a look if you have need.
The Holidays are over for another year and I am glad to see them go as they can never be the same without Kathy.
20 years of Christmas’s and New Years were not nearly enough. I would give anything to make her Holiday favourites again.
I do not know what this year will bring but I feel that some change is afoot. We shall see.
Thank you all for giving so much hope.
Canadians are pessimistic about their own personal finances and the economic outlook of the country this year, with 82 percent saying Canada is in recession, a new survey shows.
While Canada is not technically in recession, which is defined as two consecutive quarters in which the economy declines, the vast majority of Canadians believe it is and don’t expect 2024 to be any better.
PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that years ago when he was a U.S. senator that now-President Joe Biden was regarded by then-Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and his colleagues as the “dumbest” person in the U.S. Senate.
A British mines explosion that marked the start of the Battle of the Somme left a crater that allowed German troops to press forward into No Man’s Land, it has emerged.
By July 1, 1916, British forces had dug 19 mines under German positions and packed the tunnels with 40,000lb of explosives, which they intended to detonate to provide cover for an infantry advance.
But in an accepted military blunder, the mines were blown 10 minutes before the advance, a mistake which alerted the Germans to the plan and allowed them to take cover.
Ray Epps, the J6er who was repeatedly caught on tape urging Trump supporters to “go into the Capitol,” was sentenced Tuesday to just a year of probation for his actions during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Last September, Epps, a former Oath Keeper from Arizona, was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disruptive or disorderly conduct in a restricted area in U.S. District Court in Washington, despite his lead role in orchestrating chaos on that day. The charge carries a maximum punishment of a year in prison.
Electric buses are just like electric passenger vehicles: they’re not ready for prime time, only more so. Proterra buses are a case in point. Cities that wasted money on them found they had far less range then advertised. They commonly couldn’t complete even short, flat routes specifically designed for them. The enormous weight of their batteries cracked frames, and getting parts from the factory was virtually impossible. But to make up for their failures, they were far more expensive than reliable diesel buses. Proterra went bankrupt in August of 2023.
A U.S. Navy service member was sentenced today to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,500 fine for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to an intelligence officer from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in exchange for bribery payments.
