People in North Korea have told the BBC food is so scarce their neighbours have starved to death.
Exclusive interviews gathered inside the world’s most isolated state suggest the situation is the worst it has been since the 1990s, experts say.
The government sealed its borders in 2020, cutting off vital supplies. It has also tightened control over people’s lives, our interviewees say.
Pyongyang told the BBC it has always prioritised its citizens’ interests.
How Canada might go about replacing its aging submarine fleet is an ongoing exercise, but the nuclear-powered option looks to be off-the-table. This much is not new; however, Canada was also just reminded of its exclusion from the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact between its close allies the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
It may be a very long time before Canada makes a commitment for replacement submarines given that defence experts aren’t envisioning it being part of a new national defence policy to replace 2017’s Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE).
A grand jury has indicted former Marine Daniel Penny for the chokehold killing of homeless man Jordan Neely during a subway confrontation last month, sources have told The Post — even as Penny’s attorneys vowed to “aggressively defend” their client in court.
The Wednesday decision — made by a group of jurors sitting in Manhattan — arrives weeks after Neely’s caught-on-camera death sparked a national firestorm over Penny’s actions and intense scrutiny of the floundering mental health system that failed to help his victim.
OTTAWA—The deal to lure Volkswagen’s giant electric vehicle battery plant to Canada will cost the federal treasury $16.3 billion, the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates.
In a new report released Wednesday, the PBO says that over the life of the agreement — which promises to match U.S.-style subsidies until 2033 — the cost to land the German carmaker’s “gigafactory” in St. Thomas will likely be $3 billion more than Ottawa has publicly announced.
They just lie and lie and lie …
Chrystia Freeland disputes report VW deal will cost $16.3B — $3B more than publicly announced
… But it could cost more than expected because in order to level the playing field with the U.S. — as the federal Liberals have promised — Ottawa would have to give VW tax breaks on future corporate income taxes, which it calculates at another $2.8 billion.
That’s because Canada’s income tax law “stipulates that any amount of money received by a business from a government in the form of a contribution, grant, or subsidy is included in the consideration of income if that amount has not been deducted from the capital cost of property acquired … and is therefore subject to applicable corporate income taxes,” the PBO said.
Canadians have been falling victim to unprovoked stranger attacks with increasing frequency—in the middle of the day, in stores, or walking down the street. A man in London, Ontario, was even stabbed while sitting in his car waiting for a train to pass.
Some say Canada’s growing drug problem is to blame, with drug-induced psychosis sending addicts on violent rampages. Others say the problem is a lax criminal justice system that allows the most violent to repeatedly offend.
Bud Light has lost its position as the best-selling beer in the US after facing a boycott, new figures show.
In the four weeks to 3 June sales were down by almost a quarter, according to consulting firm Bump Williams.
Some drinkers in the US stopped buying Bud Light after transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney showed off a personalised can of the beer.
It means Modelo Especial has taken the top spot, with 8.4% of US beer sales by value in the period.
The obnoxiousness of the Los Angeles Dodgers Pride Night on Friday insisting on celebrating the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” is made worse by the fact that Friday is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on the Catholic liturgical calendar. I suppose the Dodgers have inadvertently worked a miracle, because people are doing what we ought: uniting behind prayer.
It’s difficult these days to escape the transgender front of the culture war. Detransitioners — those who identified as transgender and underwent social and medical transitions only to reverse course later — are the latest group the left is accusing the right of deploying, while the right says we ought to take them as a warning.
LAST month, on May 16, the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an alarming press release on a cluster of newborn infants from Wales and south-west England suffering from myocarditis between June 2022 and April 2023.
The U.S. engagement of the PRC was America’s greatest strategic failure.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has risen and now stands as a serious enemy to the United States. Beijing undermines U.S. interests at home—including the health, wellbeing, and prosperity of the American people—and abroad, as its alliances and the world it created are under the greatest strain due to the PRC’s competing interests and ever-expanding ability to advance them.
After years of disorder and misgovernance, the City of Roses is taking steps to reverse its decline.
In the summer of 2020, Portland, Oregon, became the poster child for American urban disaster zones. During the day, tens of thousands of citizens protested peacefully against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But everything changed after dark. Nonviolent demonstrators with jobs, school assignments, and kids to raise went home; hundreds of anarchists swarmed in to take their place and waged a low-grade insurgency against the city. They fought pitched battles with the cops—throwing rocks, frozen water bottles, fireworks, buckets of excrement, and even Molotov cocktails. They attacked coffeehouses, immigrant-owned restaurants, mom-and-pop retail stores, banks, museums, churches, bus stops, and the Multnomah County Democratic Party headquarters with baseball bats, crowbars, and hammers. Most were military-age white males wearing all-black clothing and hiding their faces. The violence kept up, night after night, week after week, and month after month, into the winter, long after the rest of America had calmed down. My city had become the most politically violent place in the country, and I got worried e-mails from people I knew around the world—even in the Middle East!—asking me if I was okay and why on earth this was happening.
They may be talking about “getting sober” but I doubt it will happen.
Poland will no longer run the 666 bus route to Hel amid complaints from Christian groups that it was “spreading Satanism”.
The route, which is the country’s most famous, takes tourists to the seaside town of Hel on a peninsula north of Gdansk.
It became a celebrated attraction in itself with its sandy beach, pier, forest trails and seafood restaurants.
Let’s suppose for a moment that you are running for president and your chief rival just got indicted.
What should your response be?
Olivia Chow is the great organizer of the left. Can she be a unifying mayor?
Bob Gallagher’s voice catches telling the story, because even now, three decades later, the memory of the Metro council vote to grant health-care benefits to the same-sex partners of city employees is emotional.
Gallagher had a personal stake in the vote. He was then councillor Olivia Chow’s chief of staff and his partner had AIDS.
In a cavernous, Pentagon-sized facility nestled in an Appalachian valley, thousands upon thousands of empty holes line the bare concrete floor.
A mere 16 of them house the spindly, 30-foot-tall centrifuges that enrich uranium, converting it into the key ingredient that fuels nuclear power plants. And for now, they are dormant.
A 3rd World level of brazen corruption…
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal
… The New York Times’s examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book “Clinton Cash.” Mr. Schweizer provided a preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting.
