A British “hitman” has been found guilty of conspiring to kill a Pakistani dissident in the Netherlands.
A court in London heard Muhammad Gohir Khan was offered £100,000 (about $134,000) to carry out the murder in Rotterdam last year.
However he failed to track his target down, and was arrested on his return to the UK.
Now a jury has given a unanimous guilty verdict of conspiracy to murder and he is set be sentenced in March.
The U.S. and the international community can no longer ignore or reward the malign behavior of Iran or the Houthis.
International pressure is growing to redesignate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), but pushback is emerging from humanitarian groups who fear it could exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The concerns of these groups are not unfounded, but failure to relist the Houthis will not address the underlying, root cause of the issue — Iran’s destabilizing effects on the Middle East executed in concert with its terrorist proxies, which include the Houthis.
Ottawa’s police chief says officials are on guard against “social media actors” and “lone wolf individuals” who might try to infiltrate this weekend’s convoy protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Members of a protest organizers call the Freedom Convoy steadily streamed into the nation’s capital Friday as various groups from across the country prepared to rally against the federal government’s vaccination mandate for all cross-border drivers, which came into effect earlier this month.
At least hundreds more were expected throughout the day and over the weekend, and Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly says authorities weren’t sure how large the rally would be.
‘We’re uncomfortable in our own locker room.’ Lia Thomas’ UPenn teammate tells how the trans swimmer doesn’t always cover up her male genitals when changing and their concerns go ignored by their coach
Sharing a locker room with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has become a point of contention for some of her University of Pennsylvania teammates, who feel uncomfortable changing in the private space with someone undergoing gender transition, the DailyMail.com can reveal.
‘It’s definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,’ one swimmer on the team told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
Lia has told her teammates that she dates women.
h/t RM
Hundreds of Palestinian activists have been taking part in a rare online event strongly criticising Hamas governance of the Gaza Strip.
They Kidnapped Gaza began as an audio discussion on Twitter on Thursday.
“Imagine your one-month-old son dies because of the cold. Imagine your son dying because there is no electricity, no money, no wages and no home,” said Mahmoud Nashwan.
“Injustice will fall and every oppressor will fall,” added the 32-year-old engineer from Gaza, who now lives in Belgium.
Canada truckers’ vaccine protest spirals into calls to repeal all public health rules
A convoy of truckers and their supporters is set to converge on the Canadian capital in a protest which has spiralled from frustrations over vaccine mandates into calls for the repeal of all public health measures – and even the overthrow of the federal government.
A women’s rights campaigner who put up stickers and posters in Newport, Wales, has been arrested by police for ‘criminal damage’ and ‘abusive writing’ after people allegedly complained that her posters carried an ‘anti-transgender message’.
Jennifer Swayne, 53, was arrested on Sunday afternoon and detained until the early hours of the morning, while police officers executed a search warrant on her property and confiscated women’s rights stickers and a book containing a collection of critical essays about the theory and practice of transgendering children.
OTTAWA – Rideau Hall paid out $277,592 in confidential settlements as well as running up legal bills of nearly $170,000 in the same year former governor general Julie Payette resigned for presiding over a “toxic” workplace.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed concerns of the US and its NATO allies about a Russian invasion Friday, accusing them of creating a “panic” and insisting that he knows the situation in his own country.
“Do we have tanks on the streets?” Zelensky asked reporters during a news conference. “No. When you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city, people fleeing … That’s not the case.”
Joe ain’t in charge.
CNN Tries to Memory-Hole Ukraine President Telling Biden to ‘Calm Down’
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly told President Joe Biden to “calm down” and corrected him about Russian forces Biden believed were ready to “sack” Kyiv, according to a report CNN apparently tried to hide.
German intelligence chief: Russia has not decided whether to attack Ukraine
Russia has not yet decided whether to attack Ukraine but is prepared to do so, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has said, amid soaring tensions about the Kremlin-ordered military buildup.
“I believe that the decision to attack has not yet been made,” Bruno Kahl told Reuters.
The German assessment comes after the US president, Joe Biden, told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on Thursday there was “a distinct possibility that the Russians could invade Ukraine in February”, according to a national security council spokesperson.
Left-wing rocker Neil Young is now pushing for other artists to pull their music from Spotify, calling the audio streaming service a “damaging force” that is causing “24 year old’s” to end up on “the wrong side of the truth.”
Young’s call comes after Spotify said it would pull the singer’s music from its platform following his demand that the company either remove his music or blacklist Joe Rogan and his popular podcast.
For those wondering why Joe Biden is soft on China, consider this never-before-reported revelation: the Biden family has done five deals in China totaling some $31 million arranged by individuals with direct ties to Chinese intelligence — some reaching the very top of China’s spy agency.
Indeed, every known deal that the Biden family enjoyed with Beijing was reached courtesy of individuals with spy ties. And Joe Biden personally benefitted from his family’s foreign deals.
It’s easy to lose track of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s broken promises on the housing crisis.
But it’s imperative to monitor how little he has done to rein in prices that have soared by 85 per cent since his Liberal government was first elected in 2015.
Few things reveal Trudeau’s unwillingness to seriously follow through on his housing rhetoric than his approach to foreign buyers, who most analysts agree have been one of the significant factors jacking up prices.
The top official who oversees security for the House of Commons has issued a warning to MPs about the potential risks related to the coming convoy of truckers set to arrive on Parliament Hill as early as tomorrow.
In an email sent to members of Parliament obtained by CTV News, Sergeant-at-Arms Patrick McDonell cautioned MPs about the potential for doxxing—finding and publishing people’s personal information with malicious intent—of MPs homes who live in the Ottawa-Gatineau region.
Thousands of truckers in Canada have formed a convoy to protest the country’s vaccine mandates. pic.twitter.com/vFmr9GrDyC
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 28, 2022
Rescuers form HUMAN CHAIN to save passengers from bus dangling from collapsed Pittsburgh bridge – just hours before Biden visits the city to promote his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill
Rescuers formed a human chain to rescue four people from a commuter bus left dangling off the edge of a collapsed bridge in Pittsburgh early Friday.
Photographs from the scene showed the bus – which had three passengers and a driver on board – perched upright on the edge of the bridge. Other rescuers rappelled nearly 150ft to help with the rescue.
The two-lane span, on Forbes Avenue over Fern Hollow Creek in Frick Park, came down around 7 a.m, taking multiple vehicles with it.
CBC style.