Two German teenagers are accused of plotting a terror attack on a Christmas market in the western German city of Leverkusen, German prosecutors said on Thursday.
The suspects, a 15-year-old boy in North Rhine-Westphalia and a 16-year-old boy in the eastern state of Brandenburg, were arrested earlier on Wednesday.
Prosecutors alleged that two teenagers planned to leave Germany after the attack to join an offshoot of the so-called “Islamic State” group in Afghanistan.
The governing minority Liberals’ decline in the polls has now placed them in a tie for support with their confidence-and-supply partners the NDP, while the Conservatives are now 19 points ahead, according Nanos’ latest ballot tracking.
Under the current trend line, Nanos Research founder Nik Nanos(opens in a new tab) said if the Liberals want to have a chance at winning the next federal election, a “complete reboot” will be needed heading into 2024.
Nearly 50 million people living in the US were born in another country according to a shocking new report.
A new study by the Center for Immigration Studies found 49.5 million people — around 15% of the 330 million US population — were originally born in another country.
The report also states this percentage, the highest ever recorded since the nation’s founding, has increased during Biden’s presidency, which it attributes to migrants flooding into the country during the current border crisis.
h/t DG
A large majority of Canadians agree that higher immigration is fuelling the housing crisis and putting pressure on the health-care system, a new Leger poll suggests.
New federal voting intention numbers from the polling firm also show that the Conservatives are maintaining their sizable lead over the governing Liberals.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Countries are poised to seal a hard-fought agreement on Thursday for the creation of an international fund to help communities rebuild from climate-driven calamities, giving the U.N. climate talks a bit of a win on their opening day.
The hosts of the summit, known as COP28, released a draft agreement on Wednesday that would accept wholesale the recommendations a handful of countries adopted earlier this month. It includes a provision, demanded by the United States, that says all contributions to the fund are voluntary.
OTTAWA – The lawyers involved in the criminal trial of two “Freedom Convoy” organizers are finally confronting the central question of the case: whether or not the 2022 protest that gridlocked Canada’s national capital for weeks was a legal expression of Charter rights.
Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, two of the most prominent leaders of the protest, have maintained that their only objective throughout the convoy was to organize and oversee a peaceful and legal demonstration, and that they encouraged people to follow the law.
Inexperienced editors hired in a drive to diversify big publishing houses in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 are said to have paid huge advances for books that became commercial flops.
There has been a growing politicisation of publishing, industry insiders told the Free Press website, with books expected to espouse ideas about racial justice and racism such as those that suggest people from ethnic minorities are the victims of white supremacy.
Singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan has died at the age of 65. He was best known as the frontman of The Pogues, whose single Fairytale of New York has become a Christmas staple across Ireland and the UK.
According to a new survey by Pollara Strategic Insights, Alberta is Canada’s angriest province, Quebec the least.
In Pollara’s “Rage Index,” 63% of Albertans expressed their discontent with governments and the general state of affairs in the country and the world. In contrast, just 50% of Quebecers were dissatisfied. (For reference, 60% of Ontarians were angry, too.)
Self-appointed leader of the Jewish community, Gideon Falter, now speaks for the rest of us, too.@GideonFalter I recommend you try speaking for yourself.
It’s not your place to dictate who can protest in a public space.
Also, drop the “far right” slurs.
Replies disabled, JC? https://t.co/l9bIqljZnw
— Fr Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) November 30, 2023
One of the recently released hostages was held for 50 days in the attic of an UNRWA teacher, Channel 13 News correspondent Almog Boker reported.
“Uninvolved,” they say, right? Well, read this story carefully. One of the abductees, held for nearly 50 days in an attic, reveals he was held by a UNRA teacher – a father of ten children. This teacher locked the victim away, barely provided food, and neglected medical needs,” Boker wrote on X (Formerly Twitter).
For years we’ve been told that the federal government’s singular push to reduce carbon emissions will not come at the expense of the economy, that a glut of new green jobs will fill the void of displaced oil workers and manufacturers of internal-combustion engines. The reality is never quite so rosy.
An overwhelming majority of Canadians have told the Bank of Canada in consultations they would not use an eventual central bank digital currency (CBDC).
The Bank of Canada (BoC) released the results of extensive consultations on the matter on Nov. 29.
The ferocious desire of Ireland’s myopic and feckless governing class to crack down on speech that it considers “hateful” seems at last to be reaching fruition. After a riot in Dublin was blamed on “far-right” agitators, the country’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, renewed his push for a stricter set of legal restrictions on the free expression of the citizenry. “It’s now very obvious to anyone who might have doubted us,” Varadkar said last week, “that our incitement-to-hatred legislation is just not up to date.” “We need that legislation through,” he insisted, “and we need it through in a matter of weeks.”
