Videos posted online show an Iranian teenager protesting hours before her death, her mother has told BBC Persian.
Nika Shakarami, 16, is seen standing on a dumpster and burning her headscarf in Tehran on 20 September, as others chant slogans against the Islamic Republic.
She later disappeared after telling a friend she was being chased by police.
The Russian strongman is in a pickle
The Russian army has been the source of an endless list of shortcomings and embarrassments over the last eight months. There are simply too many of them to count, from the failure to move through Kyiv’s suburbs in March to the sinking of the flagship Moskva in April to the loss in September of more than 3,000 square kilometers of territory in just days.
After his latest string of verbal blunders and on-stage wanderings, concerns have surged over President Joe Biden’s mental health.
In just two months, worries about the nearly 80-year-old’s mental state have jumped from 59% to 64% in the latest Issues & Insights/TIPP poll.
And, shockingly, most of the increase has come from Democrats.
Justin Trudeau is the preferred choice for prime minister compared with Pierre Poilievre, according to a new Nanos Research poll, though a significant portion of Canadians has nothing good to say about either leader.
If only Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Poilievre were on the ballot, 46 per cent of survey respondents said they would prefer the current Prime Minister, compared with 30 per cent who favoured the Conservative Leader. However, a sizable number of respondents, 19 per cent, didn’t want either to lead the country, and 5 per cent were unsure.
There is good news and bad news. The good news is that, as you may have noticed, the world didn’t end on 4 July 1999. Hence the headline in the Guardian on Monday 5 July 1999: “Nostradamus wrong (please ignore if the world ended yesterday).”
Writing 450 years earlier, the French astrologer seemed to have predicted the end in, for him, unusually date-specific terms: “The year one thousand nine ninety-nine seven month / From the sky shall come a great King of terror / [Shall be] revived the great King of Angolmois. Before and after, Mars [shall] reign as chance will have it.”
The Chineke! Orchestra did not play God Save the King at a performance in Switzerland during the period of mourning for the Queen, at the direction of its founder and artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku.
In an email seen by the Mail on Sunday Ms Nwanoku, 66, wrote “The Chineke! Orchestra is full of musicians who are not from the UK and many who are the direct result of their ancestors being enslaved. We will not be playing the National Anthem in Lucerne.”
It has previously played at the Proms and has received hundreds of thousands of pounds in funding from Arts Council England.
The past few hours have seen wave after wave of explosions, not just here in Kyiv, but all across this vast country, from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the east and Odesa in the south.
For those of us who were here when Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February, there’s an element of déjà vu. We’ve been told to spend as much time as we can in the basement, as further attacks, using missiles and drones, are expected.
But this is also different. The explosions here in Kyiv are much closer to the centre. Not distant thumps from the suburbs, but loud reverberations close to streets and locations we’ve come to know well in the past eight months.
Russian footage of missile launches towards Ukraine this morning. Probably in the Black Sea. pic.twitter.com/bNpy83a9Y4
— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) October 10, 2022
Two Extinction Rebellion activists glued themselves to a prized Pablo Picasso painting at the National Gallery of Victoria to draw attention to environmental causes ahead of the state election next month.
The protesters – who were arrested and later released without charges being laid – used superglue on Sunday to attach themselves to Picasso’s Massacre in Korea, which was on loan to the gallery as part of its Picasso Century exhibition. The NGV said in a statement the artwork, which was protected by a perspex glazing, was not harmed.
Activists who defend violent homeless encampments claim they are driven by compassion, and that criticisms of encampments, or of homeless crime more generally, are callous. This is untrue. Those who call attention to homeless crime merely recognize that victims of street violence deserve empathy and protection — especially because, when said victims speak out about their experiences, they suffer shocking abuse by “compassionate” pro-encampment activists.
Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is looking to fire the chief of the federal agency responsible for cybersecurity, Arne Schönbohm, over his alleged contacts with agents of Russia’s security services, Germany’s newspapers reported on Sunday, citing anonymous government sources.
Schönbohm is the president of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
But a recent investigation found that he was also the member of a technology association which counts as a member a German company that is a subsidiary of a Russian cybersecurity firm founded by a former KGB employee.
There is almost certain to be testimony, however, showing the occupation of Ottawa was more than an out-of-control street party; that behind the hot tubs, barbecues and “F – – – Trudeau” flags was something potentially more insidious.
David Vigneault, head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has already testified to a separate parliamentary inquiry that a dangerous current was running through the convoy occupation. “We have seen a number of individuals, who were of concern to CSIS prior to the convoy, being engaged online and also in person in the context of the convoy,” Vigneault told a special joint committee investigating the invocation of the Emergencies Act in February, in response to the protests that occupied blocks of downtown Ottawa for weeks.
“The concern we had with the convoy, at the outset and throughout, was the fact that we have seen in Canada, in other jurisdictions, violent extremists using these protests and demonstrations to engage in acts of violence, to recruit members, to be able to spread their ideology further,” Vigneault said
Do CSIS & the RCMP only concern themselves with some Canadians? No one has been arrested in the Coastal GasLink attack. Not a single bank account frozen and how’s the Church Burnings file coming along?
The Embassy of Israel in Ottawa says it feels at risk of violence after nearly three years of pushing Global Affairs Canada to increase its security.
It is exceptionally rare for embassies and consulates to go public with concerns about their security, but the Israeli Embassy provided two senior officials for an interview on the subject.
… Despite long ties to Russia, Ukrainians are fighting the oppressor to protect their independence and identity, which is significantly embedded in their religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, said Munsterman, who works for Nederlands Dagblad.
As Munsterman spoke, it made me wonder if Canadians would ever mount such a strong defence if their identity, as a nation and people, was threatened by a vicious external enemy. It’s not for certain.
Why? We’ve lost it to a vicious internal enemy called the Liberal Party.
Tyson Foods has become the latest company to shutter its Chicago-area offices in response to rampant crime seen under progressive Mayor Lori Lightfoot, joining Boeing, Caterpillar, and several others to turn tail and flee the Windy City.
The chicken giant made the bombshell announcement Wednesday, revealing it’s bringing together its corporate employees at its global headquarters in Arkansas, and closing down three of its offices, including one in Downtown Chicago.
The other two include a location in nearby Downers Grove, a suburb just outside the city, and in Dakota Dunes in South Dakota.
