A man who’d been convicted of rape and had previously been deported from the U.S. was allowed to board an Afghan evacuation flight and reach America, according to law enforcement sources.
At a time when American citizens are having trouble catching flights out of Kabul, Ghader Heydari made it on an Ethiopian Airlines charter flight for evacuees.
For the better part of the last decade, millennials have simultaneously been taken for granted and written off by Canadian politicians. The federal Liberals assumed young voters would always be in their corner. This was partly thanks to historical trends, but also a reflection of the party’s trademark smug moral superiority and belief they were truly the only option on the table.
Conservatives on ‘rocket ride’ as seat projection shows close race: Nanos
TORONTO — The Conservatives continue to run just ahead of the Liberals in ballot support, and have also all but erased the previous Liberal lead in projected seats, according to nightly tracking conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and the Globe and Mail.
That’s a lot of labels for 1 person pic.twitter.com/XSoDWdrBk3
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) August 30, 2021
Politico has released bombshell information, obtained through a confidential source at the Pentagon, angering top military officials. The informant gave copies of detailed notes from three conference calls to Politico that showed military brass knew that a deadly attack was coming 24 hours before the suicide bomb at Kabul airport and was unable to stop it.
The first report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the science of climate change was released in 1990. The most recent one, the 6th Assessment Report (“AR6”), released two weeks ago, thus marks more than 30 years of operations. I’ve been an expert reviewer for both the physical science and social science working groups since the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), which first went out for review in August 2005. I’ve criticized the IPCC in the past for being obtuse when it comes to reporting findings that go against its preferred narrative. I can illustrate the long-standing nature of this problem by explaining the history of a single sentence in the AR6.
The Afghanistan debacle has been devastating for America’s standing in the world. In the last two weeks the most powerful nation on earth has been spectacularly humiliated by a brutal and barbaric Islamist movement that had been ousted from power just two decades ago. President Biden’s decline has been just as precipitous, with his approval rating now barely reaching 45 per cent.
The Biden administration is also struggling on the economic front, addicted to a heavy-spending, big-government agenda that will saddle Americans with trillions of dollars of additional debt, raising the spectre of a dangerous surge in inflation. And in practically every aspect of American life, the Democrat presidency is advancing a “woke” racially divisive ideological agenda that is stifling freedom of speech, thought and debate in public life.
America’s allies are now increasingly questioning whether the US under Biden has the ability, capacity and willpower to lead the free world. And many governments across the Atlantic are now looking beyond what is very likely to be a one-term administration, hoping for a new US commander in chief who can actually lead with strength and resolve.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters watched the last U.S. planes disappear into the sky around midnight Monday and then fired their guns into the air, celebrating victory after a 20-year insurgency in Afghanistan that drove the world’s most powerful military out of one of the poorest countries.
The departure of the cargo planes marked the end of a massive airlift in which tens of thousands of people fled Afghanistan, fearful of the return of Taliban rule after they took over most of the country and rolled into the capital earlier this month.
“The last five aircraft have left, it’s over!” said Hemad Sherzad, a Taliban fighter stationed at Kabul’s international airport. “I cannot express my happiness in words. … Our 20 years of sacrifice worked.”
Celebratory gunfire from #Taliban fighters shooting tracer rounds into #Kabul's night sky after #US withdrawal. pic.twitter.com/4dhrHz7CNw
— Nabih (@nabihbulos) August 30, 2021
The financial and economic crisis in Lebanon is dragging the country towards mayhem at a quickening pace, according to various reports. Lebanon is running out of critical medicines and is witnessing fuel shortages. The economic collapse has stripped the national currency of most of its value and left four out of five Lebanese citizens below the poverty line.
The World Bank has described the crisis as among the worst in over a century.
The crisis, however, has not stopped the Lebanese authorities from again displaying their hostility towards Israel.
The sister of one of the 13 US troops killed in an ISIS-K suicide blast in Afghanistan last week slammed President Biden for comments he made while paying his respects Sunday, referring to them as ‘scripted’ and ‘shallow.’
On Sunday, the remains of Marine Rylee McCollum, 20, were returned to the United States, where Biden, along with McCollum’s pregnant wife, Jiennah Crayton, and his sister Roice, received him at Dover Air force in Delaware.
Biden met privately with McCollum’s family, in addition to families of the 12 other fallen service members, before quietly observing flag-draped cases transport their bodies off a plane.
With an election underway, parties are officially on the hunt for the votes of Canadians, criss-crossing the country and campaigning right up to Sept. 20. And to fund all that travel, advertising and election gear, parties will be shelling out a lot of money.
But political parties and candidates will not be the only groups spending big in the election campaign. “Third parties” are also in the mix and will be hoping to shape the political conversation, get their issue prioritized and build up or tear down other political actors.
German federal prosecutors arrested a woman on Monday suspected of collecting money for the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group and helping with bank transfers to the Middle East.
The suspect, identified only as Denise S., is thought to have been in contact with female IS members to keep them informed on money being sent to the group.
She is also accused of collecting donations for a woman member to enable her to return to the group after her detention in a Kurdish refugee camp.
A majority of U.S. voters say President Joe Biden is doing a “poor” job handling the crisis in Afghanistan, and they believe Americans will be left behind after the August 31 deadline, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.
A COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa could be more infectious than other mutations — and may have the potential of being resistant to vaccines, according to a report.
The strain has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year, almost double the global mutation rate seen in any other existing variant of concern, according to experts at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.
The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said “there is no such thing as learning loss,” despite evidence of massive educational declines due to a year of remote learning.
The so-called ‘special relationship’ came under further strain after the Pentagon was today accused of trying to blame Britain for making the number of people killed in Thursday’s ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul airport worse than it could otherwise have been.
US security sources said they begged to shut down a gate being used at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan’s capital city before it was hit by the deadly jihadist attack – but Britain wanted it kept open to continue its evacuation campaign.
The new twist came as survivors of the deadly blast claimed panicked US troops opened fire on the crowds of evacuees in the bloody aftermath, killing their loved-ones including a British father-of-two.
