On Monday, U.S. prosecutors will ask 12 people to authorize a punishment that hasn’t been levied on a Manhattan defendant since 1963: death.
Sayfullo Saipov, 35, was convicted last month of fatally mowing down eight people as he raced a truck down a West Side bike path in 2017. Now comes the phase of his trial that will determine his punishment: The U.S. government wants to end Mr. Saipov’s life with a lethal injection.
Lahore, Feb 11 (PTI) A violent mob lynched a blasphemy-accused man after storming a police station in Punjab province of Pakistan on Saturday, police said.
A police officer said a mob stormed the police station at Warburton, Nankana Sahib, some 80kms from Lahore, and took custody of Waris Issa, who was arrested for alleged desecration of the holy book, stripped him naked, and dragged him in the streets before beating him to death.
Will @BBC show this ? NEVER !
Waris Issa,A Christian arrested on blasphemy charges in Nankana Sahib of Pakistan.
Islamic mob attacked Police station, dragged him out on streets & set him on the FIRE with slogan of Allah-o-Akbar.
Pak is HELL for MINORITIES 😡@UNHumanRights pic.twitter.com/GVEOq7cgRt— Major Surendra Poonia (@MajorPoonia) February 13, 2023
On Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, a train carrying hazardous materials exploded, sparking fears among residents of a potential environmental disaster and leaving them wondering about the possibility of returning home.
East Palestine, Ohio is undergoing an ecological disaster bc authorities blew up the train derailment cars carrying hazardous chemicals and press are being arrested for trying to tell the story.
Oh but UFO’s!
What is going on?
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) February 12, 2023
h/t Mauser
How John Tory decided to resign: the inside story of an agonizing week
… The crisis deepened last Thursday when the Star, after further investigation, submitted more questions with details about the relationship. They included queries about “#MeToo” implications and if Tory had helped the woman get a job at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment after she left the mayor’s office.
Tory, long under fire for retaining as mayor his seat on the Rogers family trust, with a $100,000-per-year payment, now faced a potential firestorm thanks to Rogers Communications’ 37.5 per cent stake in MLSE.
An MLSE spokesperson said “the employee in question was hired on the basis of merit and we were unaware of any relationships other than those that were purely professional.”
Let’s see bails from the CPC, lands in Tory’s office now at MLSE. Quite a career trajectory for Miss North Of Wawa.
The boss of the Russian mercenary Wagner group said it could take Russia two years to seize the entire east of Ukraine in a rare interview that suggests at least some key figures in Moscow are gearing up for a protracted conflict.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has emerged from the shadows to become a high-profile figure since the start of the war, suggested Russia’s focus was now on capturing the rest of the Donbas region it has not occupied since the start of the war nearly a year ago.
Doing so would take “about one and half to two more years of work”, the ally of president Vladimir Putin said. If the goal was to occupy all of Ukraine east of the Dnipro River, this would “take about three years”, he said.
Canada Goose jackets have become such a hot commodity in Washington, D.C., that authorities have issued a warning after people wearing the expensive coats were targeted by robbers.
The city’s Metropolitan Police Department said five incidents were reported between Jan. 24 and Feb. 5, some involving firearms and resulting in injuries to the victims, who were all wearing the Canadian-made luxury parkas, which range in price from a few hundred U.S. dollars to nearly US$1,500.
A friend refers to these garments as the “Public Housing Colours.”
Four Afghan boys who arrived in small boats last year have been arrested in connection with an alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl at a school in Dover.
Kent police has confirmed that it is investigating a report of the attack, which took place at a school in the town last Monday.
Four boys, aged between 13 and 16, were arrested as part of the investigation and have since been released on bail while inquiries continue, the force said.
Allegedly between 13 and 16.
John Tory should not have resigned as mayor
Pride and prejudice and punishment: The fall and folly of John Tory.
He led the city through a ravaging pandemic. He pleaded with us to keep a distance, to be cautious, to take care.
But somewhere along the line, he threw prudence to the wind.
The heart wants what it wants, I guess.
From DiManno of the Star.
Never a fan, he will still be better than the Liberal-Left Whackos waiting in the wings.
Shocking moment World War II bomb found in Great Yarmouth explodes in unplanned detonation sending thick plumes of smoke across town
Drone footage captured a World War II-era bomb detonating in Great Yarmouth, England on Friday as work was being carried out to defuse it. Police said no one was injured when the 550-pound bomb unexpectedly exploded in the River Yare. https://t.co/wRYN9G1geZ pic.twitter.com/ut8RrxLK7Z
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 12, 2023
CSIS warned Trudeau about Toronto-area politician’s alleged ties to Chinese diplomats
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior aides were warned on at least two occasions that government MPs should be cautious in their political dealings with former Ontario Liberal cabinet minister Michael Chan because of alleged ties to China’s consulate in Toronto, national-security sources say.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has a dossier on Mr. Chan that contains information on his activities in the 2019 and 2021 federal election campaigns and meetings with suspected Chinese intelligence operatives, according to the two security sources. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources, who risk prosecution under the Security of Information Act.
So Junior lied about being briefed on ChiCom activity. What a surprise. If not mistaken I recall Chan was Ontario’s immigration minister. Fabulous, policy by ChiCom spy.
Feb 12 (Reuters) – NATO should hold an emergency meeting to discuss recent findings about September explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said late on Saturday.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970, said in a blog post on Wednesday, citing an unidentified source, that U.S. navy divers had destroyed the pipelines, with explosives on the orders of President Joe Biden.
#Ukraine: Serious Russian losses to Ukrainian AT mines and artillery in the vicinity of Avdiivka, #Donetsk Oblast: 3x BMP-1 IFV, 5x BMP-2 IFV, two ancient T-72 "Ural" tanks, and a T-72B were destroyed/damaged/abandoned.pic.twitter.com/5WJ2scLlXd
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) February 10, 2023
A Canadian social worker’s claim that she was fired by her government employer over private tweets about her gender views and her association with Jordan Peterson has been confirmed by the best-selling author and podcast host.
Peterson could not be reached for comment, but he tweeted on Feb. 10 that the social worker’s account is “true,” and that she is using an alias “because of nonstop harassment.” He posted the link to a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign organized by the woman, who is going by the name of Reena Kaur.
THE HAGUE, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Prosecutors in the Netherlands on Friday announced they plan to put a Dutch woman who joined Islamic State on trial for crimes against humanity for enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015.
The woman, identified by Dutch media as Hasna Aarab, will also be tried for membership of a terrorist organisation along with 11 other women who were repatriated to the Netherlands in November last year from camps for IS members in Syria.
France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy among other nations have charged, tried and convicted Muslim psychopaths’ who joined ISIS.
Canada? We ask them if they’d like a cushion for their feet.
If we might one day assign a technical name for the war in Ukraine, it could well be “the missile war.”
From the issues discussed during Zelensky’s recent Washington visit, to the savage Russian bombardment of civilians, to the impressive Ukrainian defence, the preponderance of razor accurate Patriot, NASAMS and other missile systems are proving their worth on the modern conventional battlefield.
They Are Russians Fighting Against Their Homeland. Here’s Why.
The soldier knelt in the snow, aimed a rocket launcher and fired in the direction of Russian troops positioned about a mile away. He was set up at a Ukrainian firing position, and looked just like the other Ukrainian troops fighting south of the city of Bakhmut in one of the most brutal theaters of the war.
But he and his comrades are not Ukrainian. They are soldiers in a Ukrainian military unit made up entirely of Russians who are fighting and killing their own countrymen.
Russian military column enters a Ukrainian mine field and makes every mistake possible.
Did they receive any training at all after mobilization?pic.twitter.com/MRPhHyy0EI
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 12, 2023
