Cyber Attacks, War & Terrorism
The Canada Border Services Agency has not successfully intercepted a single shipment of slave-made goods since cabinet announced a federal crackdown on Chinese imports, records show. Critics have called Canada an unwitting leader in importing forced labour products.
The Agency in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons said it has not intercepted any shipments of slave-made goods outlawed under the Customs Act. Cabinet on January 12, 2021 issued an Advisory On Doing Business With Xinjiang-Related Entities that warned Canadian companies from importing goods produced by Chinese forced labour.
“Since July 1, 2020 the Canada Border Services Agency seized one shipment of goods which was classified as ‘produced wholly or in part by forced labour,’” said the Inquir
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Read MoreGoogle employees who took part in a protest over the company’s continued business with Israel were arrested on Tuesday evening.
Employees from the company reportedly organized and took part in two different protests, one in Sunnyvale, California, and another in one of Google’s offices in New York City, according to the Hill.
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Read MoreAs Haiti is uprooted by violence, church leaders treat gunshot wounds, give up homes for strangers, and rescue dignitaries.
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Read Moreverlooked by crises in Gaza and Ukraine, Sudan has now endured one year of civil war. Nearly 16,000 people have been killed, with 8.2 million fleeing from their homes—including 4 million children. Both figures are global highs for internal displacement.
The United Nations stated that the “world’s worst hunger crisis” is looming, warning that one-third of Sudan’s 49 million people suffer
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Read MoreOne of Ahmed Alid’s housemates told police the defendant was previously turned down for asylum in Germany
A Moroccan asylum seeker on trial for stabbing a pensioner to death in the street and attempting to murder a Christian convert in “revenge” for the Israel-Palestine conflict told police he would have killed “thousands” if he had a rifle, Teesside Crown Court heard.
Ahmed Alid, 45, is on trial for the death of 70-year-old Terence Carney, a stranger whom he allegedly stabbed in Hartlepool town centre on October 15 2023, eight days after the Hamas attacks on Israel.
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Read MoreCanadian police have made arrests and issued nine warrants in the largest gold theft in the country’s history.
More than 6,500 gold bars worth C$20m ($14.5m/£11.6m), were stolen from Toronto Pearson Airport, in April 2023, along with millions in cash.
The alleged driver was arrested in the US carrying dozens of guns that police say were intended for use in Canada.
Police said the “Netflix-series”-style heist was executed by a “well-organised group of criminals”.
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Read MoreKids love playing with toys, but even adults would have fun with a Second World War military vehicle.
Norfolk County resident David Wassenich has a unique item that would make collectors and military enthusiasts – and the kid in everyone – envious: a functioning 1944 Studebaker M29C Weasel.
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“I’ve always loved military vehicles, even as a kid, but owning a tank . . . I didn’t realize the general public could,” Wassenich, 39, said.
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Read MoreThe Chinese Embassy has held meetings with congressional staff to lobby against the legislation that would force a sale of TikTok, according to two of the Capitol Hill staffers.
TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, has repeatedly denied a relationship with the Chinese government and sought to distance itself from its Chinese origins. But now, with the fate of legislation to force the sale of the company facing an uncertain path forward in the Senate, the Chinese Embassy appears to be leveraging its political weight to protect the company’s future in the United States.
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Read MoreAn Assyrian bishop who was stabbed during a service at his Sydney church said on Thursday he was recovering quickly and that he had forgiven his attacker.
Two knife attacks within three days – at a busy shopping centre near Bondi beach that killed six people on Saturday and at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Sydney’s west on Monday – has shocked residents of Australia’s most populous city.
“I am doing fine, recovering very quickly … there is no need to be worried or concerned,” Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel said in an audio message posted on social media, his first public comments since the attack. “I forgive whoever has done this act … I will always pray for you and whoever sent you to do this, I forgive them as well.”
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Read MoreIt has been revealed that the Haitian illegal immigrant who allegedly killed his roommates in Middleton, New York earlier this month entered the United States using the Biden administration’s CBP One app.
Kenol Baptiste, 30, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon before his deportation hearing was set to take place
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