Toronto: 9 dead, 16 injured, “known” suspect named after van plows into pedestrians

Toronto police have confirmed that nine people are dead, 16 injured after a driver drove a white rental van into a crowd of pedestrians on a Toronto pavement on Monday afternoon. Authorities say the driver is in custody and have identified a suspect named as Alek Minassian. According to witnesses, the driver appeared to deliberately drive at people, leaving a trail of carnage nearly a mile long. Police have confirmed that the suspect is in custody. Police sources said that...

David Grossman’s full moving speech to Palestinians and Israelis mourning together on Memorial Day

“Within the pain there is also breath, creation, doing good" - Israeli author David Grossman lost a son in the Lebanon War 2006. This is his moving address to 8,000 Israelis and Palestinians bridging the divide between them to mourn together their lost loved ones on Memorial Day. David Grossman is to be awarded the 2018 Israel Prize for Literature on Thursday. This week he addressed a unique event for for bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families with an emotive speech...

Phoney war: why the limited military strikes on Syria are not what they seem

  To read some of the coverage of the limited air and missile strikes against Syrian military targets on Friday April 13 2018 one might have deduced that this was Iraq War II the sequel. On the one hand May and Trump were busy congratulating themselves on their “tough” military response to the Syrian regime’s murderous use of chemical weapons against civilian targets in Douma. On the other, elements of a Stalinized Left who are reluctant to recognise the threat...

Theresa May insists joint military strikes on Syria “not about regime change”

  Prime Minister Theresa May followed the US President's announcement of joint military action against Assad, insisting the strikes would be "targetted" and "limited" to degrade the Syrian forces' chemical weapons capabilities. As air raid sirens and explosions were heard in the Syrian capital, Theresa May said that Russian denials of Syrian responsibility for last weekend's chemical weapons outrage and blocking of a UN Security Council resolution had left the US, UK and France with no choice. The timing of...

Watch: Waitress makes meals for the homeless & has dished up 75,000 in six years

A kindhearted waitress whips up fresh meals for the homeless in her community and says she has dished out 75,000 DINNERS from her own kitchen. Granny Gloria Lewis, 54, spends her weekends making 225 fresh dinners and 180 breakfasts from her two-stove, four-fridge kitchen after years of living on the brink of homelessness in her low-income job. Gloria, who moved to the US from Barbados in 1987, spends $700 on groceries every weekend to make dozens of home-cooked meals for...

Theresa May makes world’s most admired list for the first time: but who else is on the list?

Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie have once again topped YouGov's most admired people in the world poll. US President Donald Trump made the list too, but way behind his predecessor Barack Obama, and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. UK PM Theresa May has made the most admired women list for the first time, though behind other politicians Hillary Clinton  and Angela Merkel, as well as Her Majesty The Queen who is in fourth place, just behind Oprah Winfrey: Most admired...

Why the Kremlin is funding Europe’s far right and the links to Number 10

  By Roger Cottrell, PhD Russian financial interests funding the Conservative Party, to a sum in excess of £800 000, may be directly linked to the manipulation of Britain’s Brexit vote and to the funding of Europe’s fascist Right. Core to this nefarious connection are the links between Aggregate IQ (AIQ), Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL), recently exposed in a joint report by Channel 4 News, The Observer and The New York Times.  Facebook has just banned...

Viktoria Skripal refused UK visa after claiming Sergei and Yulia Skripal had food poisoning

The Home Office have refused Yulia Skripal's cousin Viktoria a visa to visit Yulia and father Sergei, a former Russian spy in Britain were they are recovering from poisoning. The refusal came hours after Viktoria who had previously released a tape purporting to be a telephone conversation with her cousin to Russian media, alleged that they had not suffered a chemical attack, rather food poisoning. "I will stick with a simple theory that they ate something wrong at the pub,...

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