TORONTO – Police have found no trace of a British woman of Somali origin who allegedly abducted her two sons from Manchester in England on April 13, 2010 and is believed to be hiding in Canada or the United States among the Somali community. The woman Anisa Ibrahim, 31, mother of Khalid, 6, and Ahmed [...]
NELSON, B.C. – Police have confirmed the identities of the two heli-skiers killed in an avalanche on March 21st in the Bonnington Mountain range near Blewett , BC. They are Katie Aring, aged 30, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Ryan Keene, aged 29, of London, England. The families of the deceased have been notified [...]
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – An American great-great grandmother set a new Guinness World Record on Tuesday for the oldest woman to paraglide tandem after taking to the air to celebrate her 101st birthday last September. Mary Allen Hardison, of Ogden, Utah, said she decided to go paragliding after her 75-year-old son Allen took up [...]
NEW YORK – British author J.K. Rowling’s best selling “Harry Potter” fantasy book series inspired box-office film hits, made her a household name and turned her into a billionaire. Now she is writing her first adult novel. But its title and plot are a closely-guarded secret. “My next book will be very different to the [...]
RICHMOND, B.C. – Richmond RCMP have turned to the public for help in finding a 44-year-old female visitor from China, reported missing by her family since she arrived in Vancouver on January 2nd this year. On February 20th police were informed that 44-year-old Wen Kang had called her family from Vancouver International Airport to assure [...]
CHICAGO – A suburban Chicago man accidentally shot a 3.25in (8.25cm) nail into his skull, but was unaware that it had entered his brain until the next day, when he began feeling nauseous. Dante Autullo, 34, was in his workshop last Tuesday when a nail gun recoiled near his head. Surgeons told Autullo that it [...]
By Salim Jiwa VANCOUVER – Two men who challenged an earlier federal court ruling that they had infringed the Aga Khan’s copyright by publishing an unauthorized book of his works have lost a bid to toss out the judgment. (See copy of judgment below) Nagib Tajdin, a Kenya-based bakery operator, and Alnaz Jiwa, a Toronto [...]
OTTAWA –Canadian citizens who are still in Syria, and wish to leave that country under the government’s voluntary evacuation initiative, are reminded that they have until tomorrow, to take advantage of this service which ends Saturday January 14th. “Canadians and their spouses and dependent children have until then to benefit from the expedited services put [...]
TEHRAN – Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced on Monday a 28-year-old Iranian-American man to death for allegedly spying for the CIA. The court ruled Amir Mirza Hekmati “corrupt on the earth and mohareb (one who wages war on God),” the student news agency ISNA quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei. Iran’s judiciary said Hekmati admitted to having [...]
VANCOUVER, B.C. – After an extensive, decade-long investigation by Indian and Canadian law enforcement authorities Canadian police, authorised by the Supreme Court of Canada, on Friday arrested the mother and uncle for complicity in the murder Jaswinder (Jassi) Kaur Sidhu, 25, in the Indian state of Punjab in June 2000. The arrested suspects are Sidhu’s [...]
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