Woman in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 100 lashes for giving birth outside marriage

Woman in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 100 lashes for giving birth outside marriage

A Kenyan mother in Saudi Arabia has reportedly been sentenced to 100 lashes after giving birth outside marriage.

Under the Saudi sharia law system, sex outside marriage is a criminal offence. But it is women who are disproportionately targeted, say rights groups, which have condemned the punishment as an “act of violence”.

Although many unmarried women give birth in Saudi Arabia, rights groups say the Kenyan mother’s case only came to light because she had been taken to a hospital, which are required to report single women giving birth to the authorities.

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Declassified RCMP files reveal police spied on Royal Canadian Legion members suspected of communism

Declassified RCMP files reveal police spied on Royal Canadian Legion members suspected of communism

Canada’s national police force secretly monitored military veterans across the country in the years following the Second World War, searching for suspected communists within the Royal Canadian Legion, newly declassified documents reveal.

Confidential RCMP records from 1946 and 1947 show the Mounties investigated Legion branches nationwide, compiled names of suspected communist sympathizers and monitored the political activities of veterans.

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David Suzuki says Mark Carney refuses to discuss the environment: ‘PURELY A POLITICAL MOVE’

David Suzuki says Mark Carney refuses to discuss the environment: ‘PURELY A POLITICAL MOVE’

David Suzuki is calling out Prime Minister Mark Carney after the two met briefly, but Suzuki never got a chance to air his concerns about the environment.

“He gave me 15 minutes. He never let me talk,” Suzuki told hosts Travis Dhanraj and Karman Wong on the “Can’t Be Censored” podcast last week.

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How BYD seduced Europe

How BYD seduced Europe

Writing in the Fifties, the critic Roland Barthes compared the Citroën DS, a masterpiece of French car design, to the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Both, he said, were “the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population… as a purely magical object”. A touch facetious, perhaps, but the analogy captures something of the importance of car making to European society. Though the principles of automotive production came from the American Henry Ford, modern Europe was built around its combination of industrial prowess, mass employment and desirable consumer goods.

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U.S. Indicts Slain Mexico City Cartel Boss and a Fugitive Los Angeles Gang Member, Alleging They Helped Ryan Wedding Evade FBI

U.S. Indicts Slain Mexico City Cartel Boss and a Fugitive Los Angeles Gang Member, Alleging They Helped Ryan Wedding Evade FBI

LOS ANGELES — A Mexico City cartel boss who was shot dead by Mexican federal agents last week, and a fugitive Los Angeles gang member living in Mexico, used corrupt officials and leaked law enforcement information to help former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding move drugs and evade capture, American prosecutors allege in two indictments announced Tuesday.

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How Britain is pricing free speech out of citizens’ reach

How Britain is pricing free speech out of citizens’ reach

Kristie Higgs lost her school job in January 2019 over Facebook posts expressing her Christian beliefs about sex and education. In February 2025, the Court of Appeal held her dismissal unlawful. It therefore took more than six years to establish that she should not have been sacked. Before congratulating ourselves on the strength of British free-speech protections, we might consider how many people could afford to wait that long.

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Muslim Migrant Fraud

Muslim Migrant Fraud

We have all read about Muslim Somalis’ massive fraud in Minneapolis — hundreds of millions of dollars appear to have been spirited away, and Somalis in Maine fraudulently obtained a lesser amount as well. But I just came across a one-man fraudster, a Bangladeshi Muslim migrant in faraway England, and thought in the interests of transatlantic harmony, I’d share his tale with you.

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Carney’s immigration accounting is so creative, it should qualify for the new artist tax break

Sabrina Maddeaux: Carney’s immigration accounting is so creative, it should qualify for the new artist tax break

Mark Carney is a known art enthusiast, but who knew he had such talent? Canada’s newest immigration updates read like a Jackson Pollock painting — impressively chaotic, twisting in multiple directions at once, and near impossible to decipher beneath layers of obscurity.

Federal Liberals have recently released a series of such works, best exemplified by the 2027-2029 Immigration Levels Plan in last week’s budget. This pièce de résistance managed to unleash mass confusion even among economists and policy experts.

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Giant UFO with dangling tentacles hovers near US military base before vanishing

Giant UFO with dangling tentacles hovers near US military base before vanishing

A giant, jellyfish-like UFO was filmed hovering in the direction of a US military base in Alaska before disappearing within minutes.

Sara Jane Osborn told the Daily Mail she was photographing a rainbow in Anchorage when a dark object emerged above distant trees near what she believed was Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER).

JBER hosts F-22 Raptor fighters and supports air defense, surveillance and military airlift operations.

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He didn’t come home from WW II. So, 84 years later, we went to visit Uncle Stan

He didn’t come home from WW II. So, 84 years later, we went to visit Uncle Stan

Stanley Raymond Lupton was just 21 when his Halifax bomber was shot down over the Netherlands, killing him and all six of his fellow crewmates.

It happened during the night of Aug. 5-6, 1942. Stan, the brother of my late grandfather William Lupton, had enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) from his hometown of Chatham, Ont., two years earlier. He wanted to be a pilot but ended up serving as an air gunner with 102 Squadron.


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‘My darling girl, you are everything to me’ – auctioned letters reveal WWI love story

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French Writer Michel Houellebecq Charged for Comments Against Muslim Immigration

French Writer Michel Houellebecq Charged for Comments Against Muslim Immigration

French novelist Michel Houellebecq has been charged in a court in Paris, France, for ‘complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a group of people on account of their origin or their belonging or not belonging to a particular ethnicity, nation, race or religion’. The news was originally broken by the French news site Le Figaro on Tuesday, 10 November.

Houellebecq gave an interview to the right-wing magazine Front Populaire in November 2022. In it, he made several controversial statements about Muslim immigration.

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