This is turning into Justin Trudeau’s season for making progress on files normally seen as Liberal weak spots. And so Canadian soldiers are heading back to Europe. Times change and the world, despite a steady drumbeat of appalling headlines, is safer for us than for our parents. So the deployment …
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Killer cars a danger to all: Micallef
Walking and biking in Toronto feels incredibly precarious of late. I have a vivid vision of my own death in Toronto. It will not come by earthquake or flood or even falling condo glass, but rather it will happen on a sunny day when I’m walking my dog down Jarvis …
Read More »North Korea test-fires submarine-launched ballistic missile
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea on Saturday fired what appeared to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile off its east coast, the U.S. and South Korea said, the latest in a string of tests that are part of efforts by the North to advance technology capable of delivering nuclear …
Read More »Russian, American, Japanese astronauts board space station
MOSCOW (AP) – Three astronauts from the United States, Russia and Japan boarded the International Space Station on Saturday after a two-day journey aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule. The capsule docked smoothly with the space station at 0406 GMT (12:06 a.m. EDT) Saturday at a height of 412 kilometers …
Read More »Thousands attend Burhan Wani’s funeral; violence rocks Kashmir, BJP office in Kulgam attacked
Srinagar: Thousands of people on Saturday attended the funeral of Hizbul Mujhaideen poster boy, Burhan Wani, who was killed in an encounter on Friday. Kashmir witnessed huge protests as mob attacked police posts, security personnel and BJP office in Kulgam to protest the death of 21-year-old Burhan, who shot to …
Read More »Asaduddin Owaisi calls Islamic State militants `dogs of hell`, urges Muslim youths to live for Islam
Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslim (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday urged Muslim youths to live for Islam, not die for it. He further termed terror outfit Islamic State (IS) a tool in the hands of anti-Islam forces. “Do not die for Islam but live for it and humanity. This …
Read More »Bhola drug racket: HC pulls up SIT for not probing ‘Mogambo’ role
The Punjab and Haryana high court pulled up the special investigation team (SIT) looking into the Jagdish Bhola drug racket case for not probing the role of a “gentleman”, whom the court also compared with famous Bollywood villain character, ‘Mogambo’. The high court bench of justices, Surya Kant and Darshan …
Read More »Phoolka apology for manifesto gaffe will be mere drama: Parkash Badal
Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal says Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Harvinder Singh Poolka’s apologising at the Akal Takht for the manifesto gaffe will be “mere drama”. “Phoolka can’t seek forgiveness for the fault of others… he wasn’t at the release of the manifesto, which was prepared in the …
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