I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange’s partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, …
Read More »Ottawa condemns Beijing after court upholds death penalty for Canadian drug trafficker
Robert Schellenberg’s defense team has lost an appeal against his death sentence, marking the latest turn in a protracted court battle over the 2014 drug charges. The Higher People’s Court of Liaoning Province ruled on Tuesday that his “conviction was accurate, the sentence was appropriate, and the trial procedures were …
Read More »Exiled Belarusian activist’s gruesome death by hanging in Ukraine casts more light on overseas opposition’s alleged neo-Nazi links
However, his purported far-right ties have been completely ignored by Western media. On Tuesday, police in Kiev announced that they had discovered Shishov’s body in a park. He had been declared missing the day before after he failed to return home after setting out for a run. An official statement …
Read More »UK government panel claims Covid mutation with 35% death rate a ‘realistic possibility,’ suggests new strains may ‘evade’ vaccines
A Friday report by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) looked at a series of hypothetical scenarios related to Covid-19 variants, finding it a “realistic possibility” that a mutation could appear with a case fatality rate comparable to SARS (10%) or MERS (35%), both of which belong to the …
Read More »I was a victim of the Yorkshire Ripper. Why is he getting an inquest into his death, when my case has been ignored?
When Peter Sutcliffe, one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers, died last November, most assumed that was the last they would hear of him. But an inquest into his death from Covid-19 is underway. The serial killer, dubbed The Yorkshire Ripper, was transferred from prison to the University Hospital …
Read More »Instagram restores posts issuing DEATH THREATS against Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, claiming these are in ‘public interest’
The platform had previously removed the videos, due to violations of its community guidelines against “violence and incitement.” The posts were mainly related to the ongoing protests over water shortages in the Islamic Republic’s Khuzestan province. In a statement to the Middle East Eye news outlet, the company said the …
Read More »Rail service disrupted & new evacuations ordered in Europe as death toll from floods tops 180
At least 155 people were killed in Germany’s western Rhineland-Palatinate region and neighboring North Rhine-Westphalia. The military was deployed to help rescue workers save people from rooftops and recover vehicles trapped in the floodwater. Another 27 died in Belgium, where around 11,000 families were left without power in the Liege …
Read More »My life in a US death-row prison complex plagued by killings, Covid and abuse, while the executioners get busy
“You’re killing an innocent man,” uttered Daniel Lewis Lee. He could feel the IV tubes in his arms as he maintained that he was at “the other end of the country” at the time of the murders he was being killed for. He asked that, after his death, the 10 …
Read More »Belgium sets day of mourning as death toll from catastrophic floods in Europe rises to 153
German authorities confirmed that 90 people have died in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, and 43 have died in neighboring North Rhine-Westphalia. Rescue helicopters, fire crews and the military were deployed to the western German regions after rivers burst their banks due to heavy rainfall. The powerful flow of water swept up …
Read More »‘Unique disaster’: Death toll from devastating floods in western Germany grows to 81
At least 50 people died in Rhineland-Palatinate, a police spokesperson in Koblenz confirmed to the media on Friday. “There is fear that there will be more,” the spokesperson added. Around 1,300 residents are unaccounted for, although officials told reporters that some locals cannot be reached because cell phone service is …
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