Saudi executions hit record number under ‘reformist prince’

Saudi Arabia has reached a record high for executions despite pledges to cut down the death penalty.

There have been some 208 deaths so far in 2024, eclipsing the 2022 record of 196, 81 in a single day.

The executions have been carried out under reformist Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has overseen at least 1,447 executions carried out since he was made Crown Prince to his elderly father, Salman, in 2015.

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Aussie ‘hoons’ drive police mad with reckless gender reveal parties

When he’s not behind the wheel of his combine harvester, Andrew Lynch enjoys nothing more than shredding the tyres of his souped-up 1981 Toyota Corolla as the crowd roars its approval.
The 39-year-old wheat farmer from Western Victoria, better known to fans as Lynchy, is Australia’s reigning “burnout” champion, having won at the country’s biggest annual car festival, Summernats, in Canberra.

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Tim Walz says ‘I don’t think people care’ when confronted with history of misstatements on Fox News

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sidestepped questions about his history of misstatements about his biography, claiming the American people did not care about it compared with the threat posed by former President Donald Trump.

Walz stumbled over his explanation of his rhetoric during the vice presidential debate describing himself as a ‘knucklehead’ to excuse his habit of exaggerating or misstating details about his life.

He is not all there.

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LILLEY: Terror supporters show their true colours in Toronto

As most Canadians went quietly about their Saturday afternoon, thousands of their fellow citizens took over the streets of Toronto in support of terrorists. The chants, the flags, the signs were all to mark the start of several days of commemoration of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks one year ago.

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‘They’re filling strollers’: Inflation leading to theft at Ontario apple farms

As an Ontario apple grower, Melissa Downey is hoping for a better year.

The sector, which is now in prime season, is trying to recover from a poor 2023, a season the Ontario Apple Growers association describes as “beyond tough.”

Farms like Downey’s Strawberry and Apple Farm in Caledon, Ont., have tried to keep their prices respectable, but as inflation and food insecurity continues to be felt, they worry a rebound year could be out of sight.

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Dutch feminists campaign for national monument to ‘witches’

Three feminist campaigners in the Netherlands want to reclaim the insult “witch” and recognise the innocent victims of Dutch witch-hunts from the 15th to the 17th centuries with a national monument.

Susan Smit, Bregje Hofstede and Manja Bedner, the chair and board members of the National Witches Monument foundation, have raised €35,000 (£29,000) for an official site of memory for about 70,000 people who died during a Satanic panic that swept Europe and the Americas.

“It’s about creating more awareness around this history of, basically, femicide,” Hofstede said. “To this day a witch is still a comic figure. In the Netherlands, every year at the carnaval, people burn effigies of witches … but there’s hardly any knowledge of the actual history of people being burned at the stake.”

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Botched Plea Deals with 9/11 Plotters Get Worse for Biden Administration

By attempting to renege on the deals, the administration may have taken the death penalty off the table for some of the plotters.

The botched plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists is a signature Biden-Harris administration moment: a scheme, apparently double-wrapped in incompetence, to spare the Democrats’ presidential candidate — first the senescent one, then the vacuous one — from an unpopular political decision.

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