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A crossbow-wielding intruder in the grounds of Windsor Castle approached a police officer and announced he was there “to kill the Queen”, a court has heard.
Jaswant Singh Chail is charged with intending to injure or alarm the Queen under the little-used Treason Act after he was arrested on Christmas Day last year.
The 20-year-old, from Southampton, is the first person in more than 40 years to be charged with offences under the 1842 legislation.
A 52% pay increase over four years — as requested by CUPE for education workers — is an “astronomical, unreasonable” amount that’s unfair to Ontario taxpayers, Education Minister Stephen Lecce says.
She was recently dubbed “the coolest politician in the world”, but Finland’s prime minister has had to deny taking illegal drugs after videos were leaked of her dancing, drinking and singing at a raucous party.
Among the 20 or so people at the party were artists, TV hosts, an MP, a celebrity stylist and a social media influencer.
In the leaked video footage, unidentified people are heard shouting about “flour”, which is a slang term for cocaine in Finland.
Finland’s Prime Minister @MarinSanna is in the headlines after a video of her partying was leaked today.
She has previously been criticized for attending too many music festivals & spending too much on partying instead of ruling.
The critics say it’s not fitting for a PM. pic.twitter.com/FbOhdTeEGw
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 17, 2022
On September 26, 1988, the novel by the Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie, “The Satanic Verses”, appeared at the Viking Penguin publishing house. Fifteen days later, the first death threats arrived.
In Bolton, UK, the book was burned in the square on December 2nd. On December 28th, package bomb threats arrived at the Viking Penguin offices.
The New Year passed without incident. Then 1989 changed everything. It was Valentine’s Day when Khomeini’s fatwa arrived from Iran: “I inform the proud people of Islam that the author of the
‘Satanic Verses’ who is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication are sentenced to death ”.
There are many Hadi Matar’s who walk among us thanks to our malevolent immigration policy.
The 40-year-old German patient went to his doctor after a red spot developed on his nose. It was then assumed to be a sunburn, and the man was sent home.
But within a few more days, the lesion on his nose began to turn black.
Ontario’s civilian police watchdog is investigating an arrest in Peterborough, Ont., on Saturday that resulted in serious injuries during a QAnon-inspired protest, in what has become another example of far-right conspiracy theories having real-life consequences in Canada.
A few dozen people had gathered outside the city’s police station after an appeal from a QAnon conspiracy theorist, who purports to be the “Queen of Canada,” for citizens to arrest local officers.
An Ontario man who fled Afghanistan amid the threat of a militant takeover says his life was endangered multiple times because of a licence plate resembling the word ISIS that he never asked for and that the province refused to change until he was nearly killed.
Nouman, 26, came to Canada as a refugee with his mother and brother just over a decade ago. His father had died a few years earlier, and life for a single mother in Kabul wasn’t safe at the time.
The first ever “period dignity officer” in Scotland is facing a fierce backlash after a council was accused of “peak gender idiocy” for appointing a man to the role.
Critics including former world number one tennis player Martina Navratilova hit out at the “ridiculous” appointment with others describing it as “institutionalised mansplaining”.
Baroness Fox accused the government of “peak gender idiocy” while SNP leader Ian Blackford said it would be “far better” if women occupied such roles.
They want you dead and will happily admit it if given the chance pic.twitter.com/ZB3HkZAEwT
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 17, 2022
The suspect in the Ohio rape case, Gerson Fuentes, who is charged with raping a 10-year-old child whose story was used to push a pro-abortion narrative, has deeper pockets than one would expect for an illegal alien from Guatemala who reportedly worked at a coffee shop.
The head of the Royal Air Force’s recruiting team has resigned amid claims the service has effectively paused recruitment of white men to hit diversity targets.
The Group Captain, whose identity has not been revealed, has left the post but is still a serving RAF officer, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.
The report by Sky News claimed an effective pause on recruiting white men had been ordered to meet diversity targets.
Veterans Affairs says worker ‘inappropriately’ discussed medically assisted death with veteran
A Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was shocked when he was unexpectedly and casually offered medical assistance in dying by a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) employee, sources tell Global News.
Sources say a VAC service agent brought up medical assistance in dying, or MAID, unprompted in the conversation with the veteran. Global News is not identifying the veteran who was seeking treatment.
These are the people teaching your kids pic.twitter.com/kt1nfyPZBe
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 16, 2022
Fox News host Harris Faulkner laid into Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff following reports that his motorcade had blocked access to handicapped parking spaces.
Faulkner discussed the situation with her cohosts on the network’s midday panel show, “Outnumbered,” and suggested that it was proof that “liberal privilege” was a real thing — and it extended to Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The New York Times has cut ties with a Palestinian freelancer who allegedly endorsed killing Jews and “burning them like Hitler did” on social media.
Fady Hanona lost his gig as a fixer in the Gaza Strip after pro-Israel watchdog Honest Reporting exposed the violent posts.
