Photos: ISIS beheads three men with sword for being gay

Some horrific photos from ISIS run state. Three men, accused of homosexuality and blasphemy, were publicly beheaded by a sword-wielding ISIS executioner. The photos of the barbaric execution was shared online today. Two of the men were accused of being homosexuals and the third one accused of Blasphemy. They were blindfolded and taken to a traffic roundabout with a crowd looking on.

An elderly man used a microphone to read out their crimes before a masked man beheaded them. See the photos after the cut...

ISIS militant group throw 'gay' man off building in Raqqa

ISIS barbarians have killed yet another man they accused of being gay. The blindfolded man was led to the rooftop of a multi-storey building in Raqqa, where he was barbarically thrown to his death. A large crowd gathered at the foot of the building to watch the murder of the young victim. The killing was filmed and photos shared on social media. More pics after the cut...

Al Shabaab Threatens to Attack Malls in the Canada, US & UK

Somalia-based terrorist group Al Shabaab, has threatened to attack malls in the Canada, United States, and United Kingdom.

The group made the threats via a video released over the weekend, NBC News reports.

In the video, the group’s lethal 2013 attack of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya in which 60 people died, was referenced. The terrorists reportedly stated that the purported impending attacks would be similar to that of Westgate.

The group is said to have specifically listed Minnesota’s Mall of America, which is reportedly America’s biggest mall, as a target.They also threatened to attack the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada. A specific UK target was not stated.

The management personnel from both of the aforementioned malls have announced heightened security measures.

Beyond Sad! ISIS Fighters Kill 21 Egyptians For Being Christians

A video released recently showed how ISIS fighters murdered 21 Egyptians for being Christians. The ISIS fighters were dressed head to toe in black marching the captives, all wearing orange jumpsuits, to a beach where they were all executed.

The 21 men, murdered because of their Christian faith, can be seen being forced onto their knees (in the photo above) before they were finally beheaded by the militants standing behind them.

Egyptian government has however vowed last night to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers.

ISIS Beheads Man For Practicing Witchcraft

ISIS militants  publicly beheaded an elderly man in Raqqa, Syria, after accusing him of practicing witchcraft.

The unknown man was photographed as he was being executed, while a large crowd watched, Daily Mail reports.

Sources state that the barbaric execution comes just days after ISIS threw a man off a seven-storey building in Raqqa, after accusing him of engaging in a “homosexual affair.”

Located on the north bank of the Euphrates River, Raqqa is a city in Syria that has become the ISIS militants’ stronghold and de facto capital.

Deplorable State Of Survival In Nunavut As Food Program Flops

Israel Mablick, an Inuk father of five who can’t afford food to feed his family, looks shows the sparse selection inside his fridge. CP

Steve Rennie  The Canadian Press

Israel Mablick opens the door of his refrigerator and takes stock of its meagre offerings.

“This is all we have for food,” he says, gesturing to the mostly empty shelves.

There is a small pot of leftover seal meat on the second shelf, next to a tub of margarine and a couple of slices of bread. There’s juice, a bag of milk, some water and a carton of eggs, plus condiments and a small bag of shredded cheese.

In his freezer, there are a few bags of frozen vegetables next to a carton of Chapman’s ice cream. Two cereal boxes — Corn Pops and Corn Flakes — are the only items in one of his cupboards.

“That’s all we have,” Mablick says, “and there’s six kids.”

The 36-year-old Inuit man shares a small, two-bedroom Iqaluit apartment with his wife and their five kids, his mother, his sister and his young nephew. His is the face of hunger in Nunavut, the bare cupboards and empty fridge emblematic of a long-standing problem that even today’s government programs don’t address.

The federal government’s $60-million food subsidy, Nutrition North, is only the latest of the proposed solutions that has stumbled under mismanagement and the enormity of the hunger problem.

Shocking! Mother screams her innocence before being beheaded in Saudi Arabia for murdering 6yr-old daughter

An aerial view shows the holy city of Mecca: Bassim was one of 10 people beheaded In Saudi Arabia so far this year. Saudi Arabia executed 87 people last year, up from 78 in 2013

 Woman screams her innocence before being beheaded in Saudi Arabia for murdering 6yr-old step-daughter

A woman beheaded in a Saudi street for killing her husband's 6yr old daughter screams her innocence in graphic footage of the execution uploaded to the Internet. An executioner in Mecca, the holy city, took two swings to hack off Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim's head, after she was found guilty of beating the girl and raping her with a broomstick.

The incident has sparked outrage in the country, but not because of the brutal punishment meted out. Rather Saudis are up in arms that the execution was filmed and posted online, where the woman's family might see it.

Now Saudi authorities have arrested someone for filming the execution, local media reports. But it was not clear what crime he has been arrested for.

Busted! US Teachers Caught Having Sex With Students In Beach

              
Two teachers have been arrested after being caught indulging in s*x with their male students while away on a field trip. South Hills High School teacher Melody Lippert, 38, met up with a group of students at a beach in San Clemente in November of last year. Cops however says she gave the group alcohol to take and then engaged in a s*xual act with one of the male students.

Not satisfied, she reportedly made plans to meet up with the students a second time at the same spot, bringing along another teacher, 30-year-old Michelle Ghirelli.

The two met up with several of the same group, spending a night on the beach during which they had s*x with two students.

Police released the pair on bail on Sunday, according to American news reports, and are due to appear in court on Wednesday.

How Come! RBC Customer's Bank Accounts Wiped Out 3 Times By Fraud

RBC downtown Toronto. CP

Meghann Johnston has seen her RBC bank accounts looted three times by someone who stole her identity. The fraudsters walked away with tens of thousands of dollars. 

Johnston calls it "an incredibly stressful" situation. 

Each time, a fraudster walked into an RBC branch during business hours pretending to be Johnston, presented fake ID and was allowed to withdraw money from Johnston's account. 

The first time it happened in Toronto in 2012, Johnston was a law student. She was home studying when the call came from RBC telling her she had to get to her branch right away.

"I found out that somebody had gone into a branch and was impersonating me and had withdrawn quite a large sum of money from my student line of credit," she told Go Public. 

Johnston said the fraudster took $26,000. The bank gave her the money back and launched an investigation. Johnston had to go through the process of changing all her accounts and her automatic payments and had to pay the associated fees.

Mozambique Suffers Ten Harsh Days Of Unending Flooding, 71 Killed

A 10-day-old flood that has been raging in Mozambique is said to have killed a total of 71 people, according to authorities from the Mozambique National Disaster Management Institute.

Rita Almeida, from the Mozambique National Disaster Management Institute, disclosed the details of the flood today in Maputo, Mozambique.

She states that the floods sparked by heavy rains have affected the North and Central area of the Southern African country.

“Forty-nine of the victims died in the central Zambezia province, where the river Licungo burst its banks” Rita Almeida said.

Report says no fewer than 30,000 people have been rescued and placed in 34 accommodation centers.

OMG! New ISIS executions shows people thrown off roof, stoned to death and crucified

ISIS have released photographic evidence of a series of horrific executions which includes throwing people from tall buildings, stoning people to death, tying them to makeshift metal crosses & shooting them to death. Full report from UK DailyMail below... 

Two men were hurled from the top of a tower block, two more were crucified in front of a baying crowd and a woman was stoned to death in the latest series of horrific executions by ISIS.

The men were thrown from the roof down to the crowd below in the brutal punishment for being gay.

Canadian couple in limbo demand audit of spousal sponsorship program

Stephen Hinton of Edmonton and his Finnish wife, Helena.

Torstar News Service
Canadians caught up in Ottawa’s backlog in processing in-country spousal sponsorships are calling for an audit of the troubled program.

Processing times have tripled recently. Thousands of Canadians are now having to wait more than two years to acquire permanent resident status for their foreign spouses already living in Canada. That means living in limbo for the foreign partner, including not being allowed to take a job or access health care coverage.

A national online group called Canada Inland Spousal Sponsorship Petitioners says Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) must immediately establish “service delivery standards,” as recommended by the Office of the Auditor General in a scathing report in 2010.

“As a Canadian who has lived, worked and paid taxes here for 25 years, I just feel like a second-rate citizen,” said Malcolm White of Oshawa, who married wife Anne in 2011. The Birmingham, England, resident joined him here two years later and filed an application for permanent resident status in December 2013.

New CNN Reports Details Deplorable State Of Nigeria Military As BokoHaram Sweep Currents

List of retailers that have closed Canadian stores

 A Smart Set store is shown in Laval, Que., Tuesday, Nov.25, 2014. Smart Set is among the retailers that have recently closed or are closing shop in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz 

 The Canadian Press

 A list of retailers that have recently closed or are closing shop in Canada:

Sony Corp.

• Japanese electronics company is closing all 14 retail stores in Canada over the next six to eight weeks
• Closures will result in 90 layoffs
• Currently has stores in Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Vancouver, Toronto and Alberta

Mexx Canada

• Dutch-based retailer declared bankruptcy in December 2014
• Liquidating 95 stores in Canada by the end of February
• Mexx has 315 stores around the world

Smart Set

• Parent company Reitmans (TSX:RET.A) announced in November 2014 that it would close 107 Smart Set stores
• Will convert 76 locations into other banners, including Reitmans, Penningtons, Addition Elle, RW&Co. and Thyme Maternity

This must stop! BokoHaram Kills Woman In Labour

PMNews
Boko Haram fighters have killed a woman as she was in labour during what is feared could be the deadliest attack in the militants’ six-year insurgency, Amnesty International claimed on Thursday.

The human rights group said one witness to the assault on Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad in northeast Nigeria, told them the woman was shot by indiscriminate fire that also cut down small children.

“Half of the baby boy (was) out and she died like this,” the unnamed witness was quoted as saying.
Amnesty said this week that hundreds of people, if not more, may have been killed in the attack, which began on January 3 and is thought to have targeted civilian vigilantes helping the military.

Dozens Killed As Floods Hit Malawi

At least 48 people have been killed and around 23,000 forced from their homes by heavy flooding in Malawi yesterday. 

President Peter Mutharika has declared a third of the country a disaster zone and urgently appealed for foreign aid.

Reports from neighbouring Mozambique said a group of 25 school children were swept away by floodwater on Monday after heavy regional rain began last month. Sadly, forecasters say they expect it to continue over the coming days.                                 

Mr Mutharika, the President has announced his government alone does not have the capacity to control the flood.

More than 3,700 homes destroyed in Nigeria by BokoHaram attack

Amnesty International has released satellite images from the January 2nd and 7th Boko Haram attack in Baga Borno state. Early reports put the death toll from the attack at 2000 but that has been disputed by the Nigerian military who put the death toll at 150.

According to a report carried out by AI's Nigeria researcher, Daniel Eyre, about 3,700 homes in two villages, Baga and Doron Baga were destroyed by the militants. The report claims that of all the Boko Haram attacks, the one carried out in Baga last week is so far the deadliest.

Alarming! US consumer debt up $14.1 billion in November

In this May 9, 2012 file photo, a Visa credit card is tendered at opening of the Superdry store in New York's Times Square. Richard Drew/AP

Martin Crutsinger The Associated Press
U.S. consumers increased their borrowing in November, as stronger demand for auto and student loans offset a drop in credit card debt.

The Federal Reserve said Thursday that consumer borrowing rose by $14.1 billion following a $16 billion increase in October. The gains have pushed consumer debt excluding real estate loans to a record level of $3.3 trillion.

The latest figures suggest that an improving economy and strong employment gains over the past year may be making consumers more comfortable with ramping up their borrowing

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. cuts $2.4B from 2015 capital spending plan

Pumpjacks at work pumping crude oil near Halkirk, Alta., June 20, 2007. (Larry MacDougal / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

The Canadian Press
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. is pausing one oilsands project while pressing ahead with another as the major oil and gas producer becomes the latest to slash its 2015 spending in the face of deteriorating oil prices.

The Calgary-based oil and gas giant (TSX:CNQ) built flexibility into the $8.6-billion budget it announced in November. Oil prices have fallen dramatically since then, so this year's spending now is expected to come in at $6.2 billion.

The company also expects to continue to grow output compared with 2014 but at a slower pace -- seven per cent, rather than the original target of 11 per cent.

North American benchmark crude has been trading below US$50 a barrel, less than half of where it was just six months ago.

Excuseme! Ecuadorian beauty queen dies during liposuction surgery procedure

 A 19yr old Ecuadorian beauty queen and medical student named Catherine Cando (pictured above) died on Saturday January 10th during a botched liposuction operation she got as a prize after she won a local beauty contest.

According to local media reports, Catherine won money and the cosmetic surgery procedure after beating 23 other girls to win Ecuador's Queen of Durán beauty contest in 2014. Her brother said Catherine initially rejected the surgery because she was young and figured she could lose the weight by working out but when a surgeon pressured her, she caved in.