Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?

When we meet, I get straight to the point. Why is she nearly always labeled ‘far-right?’

Giorgia Meloni’s spacious office, on the top floor of Palazzo Montecitorio — Italy’s House — has large French windows that adjoin its own huge rooftop terrace with spectacular views of the Eternal City. You could hold the party of the century up there if you were so minded.

Perhaps she will, if she wins.

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Russian-speakers in Latvia told to pick sides in test of patriotism

“I grew up speaking Russian, I am Russian by blood, but I don’t associate myself with Russia or the Russian world,” says Anatoly Deryugin, a major in the Latvian army.

Anatoly, 43, is one of more than one in three Latvians who speak Russian as their first language. They are now under pressure to prove their loyalty because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Born and raised in Latvia, he has spent more than half his life in his country’s military. His mother is also a Russian-speaker from Latvia, and his father is from eastern Ukraine.

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Bring Your Own Camera

As the city government abandons public safety, Baltimore residents pool resources to stop package thieves.

Baltimore’s hip Federal Hill neighborhood boasts historic red-brick rowhouses, a magnificent view of the Inner Harbor, and a charming variety of independent shops and restaurants. But these things all bring crime with them. While many neighborhoods in the city—whose experiment in depolicing has sparked a resurgence of violence—have met the challenge with private security, hiring a patrol is not the only option. Federal Hill residents have instead made use of their home-security cameras.

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Biden Admin’s Appeasement of Iran Mullahs Risking American Lives

Apparently thanks to the hapless appearance of the Biden’s administration’s appeasement policy with the ruling mullahs of Iran, the regime is escalating its attempts to murder US officials and citizens on American soil.

A member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Shahram Poursafi, aka Mehdi Rezayi, 45, of Tehran, was charged on August 11, 2022 with a terrorist plot to pay an individual in the United States $300,000 to murder a former US government official, Ambassador John Bolton.

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Sale of Ottawa church to ‘Freedom Convoy’-affiliated group falls through, but leader says deal is still on

The current purchase of a historic Ottawa church slated to become an “embassy” for a group affiliated with the Freedom Convoy has fallen through, according to documents obtained by CTV News.

St. Brigid’s Church was conditionally sold to a group called The United People of Canada on June 15 but as of Aug. 12, real estate listing documents show the property was listed as “back on the market.”

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Two years after Trudeau promised a made-in-Canada COVID vaccine, the country is still waiting

In the early days of the pandemic, the federal government announced a multi-million-dollar funding agreement with the National Research Council (NRC) to expand a vaccine facility in Montreal — a site Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said would pump out Canadian-made COVID-19 shots by November 2020.

Two years after the prime minister made that pledge, the NRC facility still hasn’t produced a single vial of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Intel Officials Reveal What FBI Was Really After in Mar-a-Lago Raid

There has been a lot of speculation as to the true purpose of the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Was it a fishing expedition? Was the raid cover for looking for documents related to January 6? One report even claimed that Trump had top secret documents about nuclear weapons.

Anonymous intelligence officials have told Newsweek they know exactly what the FBI was really after: documents related to the Russian collusion hoax — also known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane.

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‘Whatever You Need’: How Hunter Biden Helped the CCP’s Premier Influence Group Gain a US Foothold

The Biden administration last month warned of a Chinese Communist Party front group that seeks to “co-opt” state leaders as part of Beijing’s sprawling foreign influence operation. Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show the first son and his business partners helped the organization gain a foothold in the United States while his father was vice president.

In 2015, Biden’s partners lobbied the State Department to publicly approve a partnership between the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and State Legislative Leaders Foundation, a nonprofit group that hosts forums for state legislators and corporate leaders. Hunter’s team portrayed the initiative as a boon for U.S.-Chinese relations.

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At least 20 believed killed as Muslim group seizes hotel in Somali capital

Security forces in Mogadishu are still fighting Islamic extremist gunmen who seized a hotel in the Somali capital on Friday evening in one of the most deadly and high-profile attacks in recent years.

At least 15 people are believed to have been killed and 40 wounded during the attack, which has been claimed by the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabaab.

Detonations sent huge plumes of smoke over Mogadishu, and gunfire reverberated around the city. Large sections of the hotel were destroyed by the fighting, witnesses said.

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How the Bitcoin boom led to ‘a giant fleecing of ordinary people’

Investing in cryptocurrencies was the get-rich craze of the pandemic. Then came the $2 trillion crash. Was it a giant Ponzi scheme all along?

The reality finally hit Fynn Weisgerber, 17, when he was driving home from football practice in May. He pulled over and cried.

“I was having a mental breakdown,” he recalls. “I had just watched $1 million disappear before my eyes in, like, hours. It was crazy how fast it happened.”

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No new military pledges to Ukraine in July begs the question: Has the West lost interest in the war?

It marks the first month since the conflict began that major European governments failed to make a single new promise to send weapons

Military support for Ukraine appears to be drying up after research revealed that major European governments failed to make a single new pledge to send weapons to Kyiv last month.

Since Russia’s invasion in February, the UK, France and Germany have promised to stand by Ukraine with whatever assistance it takes to win the battle.

But July became the first month since the beginning of the conflict during which there were no significant new pledges of international support by Europe’s largest economies.

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Toronto’s Pearson airport now only 2nd worst in world for delays.

Fatima Sherefa, 17, had a rough night at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Aug. 6.

Her flight from Toronto home to Winnipeg had been delayed several times and then, just after midnight, it was cancelled.

Sherefa says Air Canada staff didn’t offer hotel accommodation for the night, and instead passed out yoga mats to stranded travellers.

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