PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – Cops have pounced on a gang house, arrested 14 members of the Game Tight Soldiers and seized drugs. The home raided by cops is on the same block where a man was found shot dead on on the street on Aug.14. Police did not state if this was part of the [...]
Some 150 Irish artists have pledged a cultural boycott of Israel saying they would “not perform or exhibit in Israel” until Israel ended its abuse of Palestinian human rights.
An Israeli human rights group has claimed that Israeli army authorities recently revived a sweeping 40-year old military order prohibiting demonstrations against the Separation Barrier in the West Bank, and that measures have been taken to suppress immediate and future demonstrations against the Separation Barrier.
By Yehonathan Tommer JERUSALEM – Arab-Jewish relations, which have been steadily deteriorating over the past decade, dived to a new low of bitter recriminations when Israel’s Knesset on Tuesday voted to strip Arab Knesset Member from Nazareth, Hanin Zoabi of three insignificant parliamentary privileges. This was her “vengeful punishment” for joining the Turkish vessel Mavi [...]
ARMSTRONG, B.C. – Firefighters and water bombers are still fighting a major fire at the Tolko Mill south of Armstrong and more than 100 people living in four mobile home parks nearby have been evacuated. RCMP said the mill was still safe but the hog pile (chip pile) located just north of the building ignited [...]
LOS ANGELES—A man who claims to be affiliated with an underground gang of hackers was arrested on federal extortion charges that allege he hacked into dozens of computers, obtained personal data about people using the computers, and then demanded sexually explicit videos from female victims in exchange for keeping their personal information private. Luis Mijangos, [...]
WASHINGTON – On the first anniversary of the bloody election in Iran, the U.S. has called on the Islamic Republic to respect human rights and to release political prisoners. “The United States once again calls on the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran to meet their obligations to their own people and to the [...]
SURREY, B.C. – (Update1) Police say a woman who was found dead in roadside bush in central Surrey on Wednesday was a victim of a killer. Cpl. Dale Carr said the woman is in her 40s and police have tentatively identified her but they will not name her until they have confirmation of her identity. [...]
SANTA ANA, California – A pharmacy student was sentenced today to six years in state prison for strangling and killing his mother after becoming angry that she disapproved of his pharmacy studies and wanted him to become a physician. Son Richard Lam Nguyen, 31, of Garden Grove, was convicted by a jury March 23, 2010, [...]
By Karen Mullins TORONTO – Toronto Police are alerting the public about a sexual assault that took place on a Transit Commission (TTC) bus Thursday evening. A woman, 19, was on a TTC bus in the Don Mills Road and York Mills Road area on Thursday. While the woman was on the bus a man [...]
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