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Canada’s Trudeau rebuked by some members of European Parliament for treatment of convoy protesters
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with scathing rebuke from some Members of European Parliament (MEP) final week after he delivered a speech to the European Union.
Impartial Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic accused Trudeau of participating in “dictatorship of the worst sort” due to how his authorities handled the peaceable Freedom Convoy in February.
“Below your quasi-liberal boot in current months,” stated Kolakusic, “we watched the way you trample ladies with horses, the way you block the financial institution accounts of single mother and father in order that they can not even pay their kids’s training and medication, that they can not pay utilities, mortgages for his or her properties.”
Different for Germany MEP Christine Anderson additionally known as out Trudeau, calling him “a shame for any democracy.”
CANADIAN CLERGY REBUKE TRUDEAU FOR INVOKING EMERGENCIES ACT, OTHER ‘TYRANNICAL ACTIONS’
One other Different for Germany MEP, Bernhard Zimniok, echoed Anderson, tweeting, “I am overwhelmed by the assist and appreciation of the Canadian folks, which implies rather a lot to me! Due to that, I revealed the speech with English translation. Sadly, the interpreter ignored that I discussed the freezing of 200 financial institution accounts.”
VIGILS PLANNED AT CANADIAN CONSULATES IN US TO PROTEST IMPRISONMENT OF PASTOR WHO PREACHED TO FREEDOM CONVOY
Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș boycotted Trudeau’s speech solely.
Trudeau has additionally confronted backlash at house for the way he responded to the Freedom Convoy.
Video circulated broadly on social media in February of police decked out in riot gear cracking down on convoy protesters in Ottawa by arresting them, tear-gassing them, and deploying officers on horseback by the crowds. One girl was reportedly trampled by a horse, in keeping with footage of the incident.
A bunch of Canadian clergy despatched an open letter to Prime Minister Trudeau final month rebuking him for invoking the Emergencies Act to quell the Freedom Convoy and for different actions they described as “tyrannical.”
“We’re writing to you as consultant pastors of Christian congregations from throughout the nation and as law-abiding residents who respect the God-defined function of civil authorities and uphold the Canadian Constitution of Rights and Freedoms, the very best regulation of our land, which acknowledges the supremacy of God over all human laws,” learn the letter, which was signed by 29 clergymen.
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North Korea expands list of crimes punishable by death: report
North Korea is expanding its list of crimes punishable by death, according to reports.
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s regime expanded the list of offenses warranting the death penalty from 11 to 16 via revisions of criminal law, according to Yonhap News Agency.
New offenses warranting execution as a punishment include: anti-state propaganda and agitation acts, illegal manufacturing, and the illicit use of weapons are included in the new codes.
KIM JONG UN PROMISES TO ‘STEADILY STRENGTHEN’ NORTH KOREA’S ‘NUCLEAR FORCE’
The legal modifications were codified via multiple amendments between May 2022 and December 2023, according to a report from the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU).
The tightening of the criminal code is intended to strengthen the Kim regime’s grip on the population through its continued monopolization of the marketplace and military.
Earlier this month, North Korea promised to refine its weapons development and strengthen its nuclear capabilities.
NORTH KOREA’S KIM JONG UN REPORTEDLY ORDERED DOZENS OF OFFICIALS EXECUTED AFTER DEADLY FLOODS
Kim Jong Un made the comments Monday at a state event celebrating the country’s 76th anniversary.
“The obvious conclusion is that the nuclear force of the DPRK and the posture capable of properly using it for ensuring the state’s right to security in any time should be more thoroughly perfected,” the dictator said.
“DPRK” is an abbreviation for North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Kim Jong Un warned that the United States’ increased involvement in the region has forced the regime to pursue more powerful weapons as a deterrence mechanism.
“The DPRK will steadily strengthen its nuclear force capable of fully coping with any threatening acts imposed by its nuclear-armed rival states and redouble its measures and efforts to make all the armed forces of the state, including the nuclear force, fully ready for combat,” the supreme leader said.
The 14th Supreme People’s Assembly, the unicameral legislative body of the country, amended the national constitution last year to enshrine nuclear weaponization as a core principle.
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Eight killed in Russian drone attacks on medical centre in Sumy, Ukraine
The second attack hit the hospital in northeastern Ukraine as patients evacuated, authorities and witnesses say.
At least eight people have died in two consecutive Russian drone attacks on a medical centre in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials have said.
The first attack on Saturday morning killed one person, and it was followed by another attack while patients and staff were evacuating, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel that Russia had hit the hospital using Shahed drones, stating that eleven people were injured.
Sumy lies just across the border from Russia’s Kursk region where Kyiv launched a shock offensive on August 6, which it says is aimed partly at creating a “buffer zone” inside Russia.
Regional prosecutors said the first attack in Sumy on Saturday took place at about 7:35am (04:35 GMT), hitting the hospital where there were 86 patients and 38 staff.
The second attack took place at about 8:25am (05:25 GMT) as rescuers and police were providing assistance and evacuating patients at the scene, prosecutors said.
Dobrobat, a volunteer group that helps repair damaged homes, wrote on Facebook that its volunteers were working at the scene when the second attack came.
It posted a video showing thick smoke, explosions and people rushing to shelter as sirens wailed.
“People are just lying on the street dead,” a volunteer said, filming himself at the scene on his phone.
‘Victory plan’
In Russia, the Defence Ministry said Saturday that air defences overnight had shot down four Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region and one over the Kursk region, both areas bordering Ukraine.
On Thursday, Zelenskyy visited the United States to lobby support for Ukraine, meeting with US President Joe Biden and Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris to detail what he has described in recent weeks as his “victory plan”.
He had previously described the five-point plan as a “bridge” towards a strong enough negotiating position for Ukraine to force Russia to end the war on Kyiv’s terms.
Before the meeting, Biden announced an additional $8bn in military aid for Ukraine, a package including the provision of Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) munitions to “enhance Ukraine’s long-range strike capabilities”.
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Israel Strikes Hezbollah Stronghold in Attempt to Kill Leader
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