US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have liberated a Yazidi woman who had been held for a decade by Islamic State (IS), where she was raped and forced to marry extremists.
The 24-year-old woman was rescued with her son and daughter during a security operation by Kurdish fighters in Syria’s al-Hawl camp, which houses tens of thousands of people, mostly the wives and children of Islamic State fighters, the Syrian Democratic Forces said on Monday.
The Nicaraguan government started Monday proceedings to take Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza by providing the Israeli occupation with the weapons and means to carry out the horrendous act.
Pssst … ICJ if you wanna disappear Trudeau for trial we’ll look the other way. Just sayin.
All the speeches Adolf Hitler made as chancellor will be available online for the first time under a project by a German research consortium.
In a process expected to take seven years, researchers will collect and analyse all of Hitler’s speeches delivered between 1933 and 1945. The aim, they say, is to move the academic focus away from Mein Kampf and provide a better insight into the dictator’s use of propaganda during his years in power. Hitler delivered a total of 1,525 speeches from 1919 to 1945.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday his party’s deal to prop up the minority Liberals will be off if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government doesn’t meet the deadline to introduce long-promised pharmacare legislation.
However, the New Democrat wouldn’t rule out still supporting the government on confidence votes, such as the budget, even if the two parties no longer have a formal deal.
The New York Times reported today (Tuesday) that Israeli intelligence believes that more than nearly one-quarter of the hostages who were kidnapped during the Hamas massacre of October 7 and are still being held captive in Gaza are dead.
According to the report, the Israeli intelligence officials estimate that 32 of the 136 hostages who remain in Hamas custody have died, leaving just 104 still alive. This is a higher death toll among the hostages than has previously been discussed.
An additional 20 hostages may also be dead, though this is still under investigation.
“I don’t want to overemphasize it … but what is burgeoning, what is starting to sort of grow from out of the weeds into a fairly healthy seedling here, is this almost the Trump-esque, ‘Canada First’ mentality,” she said.
Growing number of Conservative voters think Canada gives ‘too much support’ to Ukraine, poll suggests
A survey released Tuesday morning by the Angus Reid Institute says a quarter of Canadians believe Canada is offering “too much support” to Ukraine in its fight, up from 13 per cent who said the same thing in May 2022.
Conservative supporters are a driving force behind that result, according to the poll.
The percentage of Canadians who voted for the Conservative Party in the last election, and who now say Canada is doing too much to assist Ukraine, has more than doubled — from 19 per cent in May 2022 to 43 per cent now — according to the public opinion research group’s findings.
Whole lot of spin goin on. Funny how CBC missed the part about how Liberal and NDP voters must make up the remaining 57% of of the 25% of Canadians who think we give too much to Ukraine. Are we to assume that Liberal and NDP voters do not wish to put Canada 1st?
Priests must look out for “red flags” when baptising asylum seekers because some are faking conversion, an evangelical church leader has said.
Pastor Graham Nicholls, the director of Affinity, a network of 1,200 evangelical churches and ministries in the UK, said that church leaders “need discernment” to “test whether people are genuine in their beliefs”, adding that in some cases, some prospective converts are “faking it”.
His intervention came as the manhunt for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, the Clapham chemical attack suspect, continued on Monday with Metropolitan Police detectives saying he could be dead in the River Thames.
BRAMPTON, Ont.—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada’s public inquiry into foreign interference had gotten off to “a very bad start” as a human rights group withdrew its participation and the Tories were denied full standing.
The inquiry, focused on probing alleged election meddling, concluded its first set of public hearings last week.
A man was arrested in Liverpool over the weekend for flying the Union Jack flag in the middle of the pro-Palestine mob
State of play with the police in our county:
❌ to 🇬🇧 flag
✔️ to the Islamic flag of Jihad, the Israeli flag, or any other foreign flag pic.twitter.com/eDQq1WjEvG— SL (@Steve_Laws_) February 5, 2024
Mauser sent along the Flag link above. It is an excerpt of a much longer video (below). The videographer was late to the flag wavers arrest, but as explained the arrestee apparently ran through the crowd of Hamas supporters waving the English national flag and that triggered them. Hence his arrest. Worth watching the whole video for a slice of life in Liverpool.
Arrival UK, an electric van start-up, has fallen into administration less than three years after a $13 billion float, in a fresh blow to Britain’s green energy ambitions.
EY has been appointed to explore options for the break-up and sale of the group’s operations. Arrival, based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, has two factories in the county. Its parent company, listed in America, employs about 400 people worldwide.
Updated expense numbers put the cost of the Trudeau Liberals’ three-day affordability-focused cabinet retreat last summer at just under half-a-million dollars, including more than $50,000 on a banquet.
Figures contained within online proactive disclosures and newly released responses to order paper questions put the current cost of the retreat, held in Charlottetown Aug. 21 to 23, at $485,196.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s increasingly politicized domestic intelligence agency, has placed its former chief, Hans-Georg Maaßen, under observation over, among other things, his alleged proximity to individuals in the ‘right-wing extremist’ scene.
In a 20-page letter sent to Maaßen’s lawyer’s office the intelligence agency informed its ex-boss as to the reasons for his surveillance, listing information and details it has collected regarding his activities and associations that it believes are indicative of right-wing extremism.
Alberta says a federal emissions cap on greenhouse gases “will not be tolerated” as the province’s environment minister meets today with her federal counterpart.
Alberta’s formal response to Ottawa’s proposal says the cap would undercut the work that the province has been successfully pursuing “for decades” to reduce emissions.
The response says oilsands production has already risen above the forecasts that were used to establish the proposed 100-megatonne limit.
The Hockey Canada scandal is back in the headlines after five players were charged over an alleged group sexual assault that took place in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018. The arrests follow the 2022 revelation that Hockey Canada used taxpayer dollars and membership dues to pay off victims of sexual assaults and quiet them with non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs. The victim in the London case reported to police and co-operated throughout – but the police sent her back to Hockey Canada for their own internal investigation. This is a common practice where a powerful institution or corporation is involved.
Joe Biden’s allies probably hoped that this weekend’s NBC News poll would show, as some other pollsters have, that the president’s popularity was improving along with the economy and consumer sentiment. Those hopes proved unfounded.
But then, why would the administration convince itself that the president’s relative standing with voters was an entropic phenomenon? It’s not just that Biden’s policies (from immigration to crime and violence to the economy broadly) are deeply unpopular. He is unpopular.
