Extreme! NorthKorea court sentences Canadian pastor to life imprisonment for 'crimes against the state'

 

A Supreme Court in North Korea has sentenced Hyeon Soo Lim, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto to life imprisonment with hard labour after he was convicted of committing 'crimes against the state'. Pastor Soo Lim who had been in detention since February was given the sentence after a brief trial.

 He had earlier appeared at a news conference organized by North Korean authorities in Pyongyang in July and admitted to plotting to overthrow the North Korean state.

Nova Scotia | Maritime storm could dump 40cm of snow in some areas

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Nova Scotia's famous groundhog prognosticator Shubenacadie Sam is waiting to make his annual prediction Monday morning, but there's no shadow of a doubt that the Maritimes will be hit with another major storm.

CBC meteorologist Peter Coade said this storm is expected to be Nova Scotia's worst of the season so far.

"It will be moving into the Maritimes early Monday afternoon in southwestern Nova Scotia and southeast New Brunswick. Then, it will spread throughout the entire area by the evening hours," he said.

Western Nova Scotia will be hardest hit, Coade said, with between 20 and 30 centimetres of snow. The storm could track inland over Nova Scotia, which will temper snowfalls slightly.

Canadian troops shot back in firefight with ISIS in Iraq

Commander Canadian Special Operations Forces Command Brigadier-General Michael Rouleau speaks during a technical briefing Monday January 19, 2015 in Ottawa. CP

Murray Brewster The Canadian PressCanadian troops exchanged fire with Islamic State extremists during a recent battlefield planning exercise in Iraq, the military revealed on Monday.

It also acknowledged its soldiers have helped Kurdish forces by directing coalition air strikes.

The officer in charge of the elite special forces, which has been advising local forces in northern Iraq since September, denied that these events represent an escalation of Canada’s involvement.

“The situation is a lot more nuanced than just saying, if you exchange fire with a belligerent force then all of sudden it’s a combat mission,” said Brig.-Gen. Michael Rouleau, commander of special operations command.

ISIS Publishes Its Sharia Law For ‘Citizens’

Please read some of the new update to the Sharia law published by ISIS for its citizens, the law covers punishment on drinking alcohol, adultery, gay and theft.

• Islamic State has published a list of punishments ranging from 80 lashes for drinking alcohol and losing a hand for theft, to death for committing blasphemy.
• The Sharia code of conduct will be enforced in areas under its control which now covers large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
• Those who commit adultery will be stoned to death if the adulterer was married and lashed 100 times and exiled if he or she was unmarried.
• Those engaged in sodomy (homosexuality) will be sentenced to death, along with those who 'spy for the unbelievers'.
• Those who steal 'as part of banditry' will have their right hand and left leg cut off, and the punishment for terrorising people is exile.

Shocking! The execution that sickened even ISIS: Woman accused of adultery shot by Al Qaeda in Syria

DailyMail- Shocking video has emerged showing a veiled woman being publicly executed by Al Qaeda for alleged adultery - a sentence that has sickened even the Islamic State. The footage shows the woman, who is wearing a black robe and a hijab (headscarf), being ordered to crouch down on the pavement in front of a crowd of masked jihadi fighters in Syria.

Behind her, a militant declares that she has been convicted by an Islamic court of being an adulterer, condemning her for allegedly running a brothel.

A gunmen then pulls out a pistol and shoots her in the head with a single shot as chants of Allahu Akbar - Arabic for God is greatest - ring out from the baying mob.

Canadian politicians call on feds and Quebec to help free Saudi blogger

Ensaf Haidar, wife of blogger Raif Badawi, takes part in a rally for his freedom, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 in Montreal. Badawi was sentenced last year to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes and a fine of one million Saudi Arabian riyals (about $315,000 Cdn) for offences including creating an online forum for public debate and insulting Islam.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Peter Rakobowchuk The Canadian PressThe wife of a Saudi blogger who was flogged 50 times last week after being convicted of insulting Islam has accused the Arab country of regressing hundreds of years with the way it is treating Raif Badawi.

“My husband was imprisoned for simply expressing his liberal opinions in a country that has gone back to acting like the courts of the Middle Ages,” Ensaf Haidar said through an interpreter Tuesday.

“The Islamic inquisition tribunals that were established in Saudi Arabia are back…and putting an end to the dialogue of religions. Saudi Arabia wants to present an image of openness and tolerance to the West while, at the moment, it imprisons hundreds of people for expressing their opinions.”

Badawi was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes after he criticized Saudi Arabia’s powerful clerics on a liberal blog he founded.

Chinese jilted wife 'chops off husband's penis twice after catching him cheating

UK Mirror-A jilted wife in China has been arrested after she allegedly chopped off her cheating husband's penis twice. According to reports in China, two-timing dad-of-five Fan Lung, 32, used his wife's phone to send lover Zhang Hung, 21, a saucy email from his marital home in Shangqiu. But he forgot to log out of his account and his stunned wife, Feng, 30, came across the message along with several others, which sent her flying into a rage.

Furious, she's said to have grabbed a pair of scissors and stormed into their bedroom, where he was sleeping, and snipped off his manhood. Fan was rushed to hospital, where the organ was sewn back on.

PM Warns 'Jihadists Have Declared War On Canada'

A woman holds a poster reading 'Je Suis Charlie (I Am Charlie)' during a tribute for victims of a terror attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris that left 12 dead, at the Restauradores square in Lisbon on January 8, 2015. Getty Images

Torstar News Service
The jihadist movement has declared war on Canada and other democratic countries and there’s no option but to “face that head on and deal with it,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in response to the massacre in Paris.

“They have declared war on anybody who does not think and act exactly as they wish they would think and act,” Harper said of the jihadists Thursday.

“And we may not like this and wish it would go away, but it is not going to go away and the reality is that we are going to have to confront it,” he told the media after an announcement on apprenticeship programs in British Columbia.

Smh! Mexico Drug Cartel Forced Members To Eat Human Hearts

A policeman stands guard at the crime scene after 11 people were killed in La Ruana, Michoacan state, Mexico on December 17, 2014. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) | STR via Getty Images

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A vicious Mexican drug gang forced some members to eat the hearts of murder victims as part of a gruesome initiation rite to root out infiltrators, a government security official said on Tuesday, citing witness testimony.

For much of the past year, Michoacan, a mountainous, agricultural state in western Mexico, has been ravaged by fighting between drug gang henchmen and vigilantes who took up arms against the cartels but have since splintered into violent factions.

A mid-December shootout between two rival groups that killed 11 people has reignited fears the government is failing to control the state after flooding it with federal troops and pressing vigilantes into a fledgling rural police force.

OMG! Saudi Blogger Flogged Openly, Gets Jail Term & Ordered To Pay $266,000 For ‘Insulting Islam’

A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged after being convicted of cybercrime and insulting Islam, BBC reports. Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. 

The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.

Mr Badawi, the co-founder of a now banned website called the Liberal Saudi Network, was arrested in 2012. Rights groups condemned his conviction and the US appealed for clemency.

On Thursday state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki urged the Saudi authorities to "cancel this brutal punishment" and to review his case.

In addition to his sentence, Mr Badawi was ordered to pay a fine of 1 million riyals ($266,000; £175,000).

War Against Extremism As Canadian CF-18 Strikes ISIS Base

A Canadian Forces CF-18 from 400 squadron touches down in Kuwait.

Murray Brewster The Canadian Press
Canada is at war with the Islamic State and will do what is necessary to eliminate the threat it poses, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

His comments came as the military revealed that CF-18s have carried out another seven attacks in Iraq over the last couple of weeks.

A decision to extend the air mission, which is due to end in April, has not been made, but prime minister said when the time comes one of the criteria will be “the kind of risk it poses to our country.”

And Harper said the risk is significant.

Two girls charged with premeditated murder in death of their 16yr old brother

According to CNN, the case is still under investigation, but authorities believe that the older sister took a handgun from their parents' bedroom and shot her brother, 16 year old older brother. The 11- year-old also allegedly assisted her.

The children's parents, Keith and Misty Kornegay (pictured above) were out of town and allegedly left the three of them and a 3-year-old daughter unsupervised. The two girls themselves tipped off a local police officer to the shooting of their brother in their Columbia County home, the sheriff's office said.

Teen girl gang beat snitching girlfriend, shaved her head and whooped her face

A teen in Ohio says she was ambushed by six women who took turns brutally beating her on Christmas Eve — then spread photos and videos of the attack on social media to humiliate her.

Cheyanne Willis, 19, says she was pulling into the parking lot of a suburban Cincinnati mall with her then boyfriend, Quincy Gardner, when he parked and pulled her out of the car. A group of six women, including two she knows, was waiting for her and allegedly took turns kicking and beating Willis, slamming her face on a car hood and shaving her head...

Online footage shows Cheyanne Willis being viciously attacked by a group of women on Christmas Eve ...below...

Teen Who Miraculously Survived 96% Burns In Skiing, Returns To The Slope

A teenager who suffered 96 per cent burns to virtually every inch of her body in an horrific French Alps coach crash is heading back to the slopes. Catrin Pugh, now 20, suffered a horrendous accident and given a one in 1,000 chance of pulling through after she was trapped in a blazing coach in April 2013.

Catrin was in a medically induced coma for three months and have undergone more than 200 operations. But that seems to be a thing of the past now, as Catrin has moved on and says the only thing she can do to get over the incident/fear is for her to ski again.

Wow! 'The World's Bendiest Woman' Releases Photos For Her 2015 Calendar

These amazing images show how Zlata,28, the world's bendiest woman, contorts herself in her 2015 calender. The Russian bombshell forces her lithe body into the most extreme poses possible while wearing a skin-tight gold jumpsuit.

Spanish Woman Arrested with Cocaine in Breast Implants

Police arrested a woman in Spain with 3.7 pounds of cocaine in her breast implants.(Photo: SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE / HANDOUT EPA)

Spanish police say they have arrested a woman who landed at Madrid's international airport with 1.7 kilos (3.7 pounds) of cocaine hidden in her breast implants.

Narcotics agents grew suspicious when the 43-year-old Venezuelan woman exhibited unspecified strange behavior during a routine screening of passengers who had just arrived from Bogota, Colombia. A luggage search showed nothing unusual. But a frisk by female officers revealed irregularities and deformations in both of the suspect's breasts.

The passenger then "became nervous and confessed to carrying cocaine implants," a police statement said Friday. The suspected drug smuggler was transferred to a hospital where she was detained for an alleged crime against public health, the statement says

Photo: Heat Wave Warning in South Korea

A child lies in a pool of water to cool down in central Seoul on a day when South Korea's state weather agency issued a heat wave warning.

Alarming As CO2 Levels Reach their Highest for 800,000 YEARS: Record 400ppm

 

April’s average carbon dioxide reading was 401.33ppm, according to scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego

CO2 readings come within a year of scientists warning the amount of the gas in the Earth’s atmosphere could stay beyond 400ppm

Earth had carbon dioxide levels of 280ppm before the Industrial Revolution

Rising levels of the gas in the atmosphere are thought to be caused by the burning of fossil fuels and therefore responsible for global warming

Readings were taken by the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii

For the first time in millennia, the average level of carbon dioxide has topped 400 parts per million (ppm) for an entire month.

 

April’s carbon dioxide readings come less than a year after scientists warned that the amount of the gas in the Earth’s atmosphere could surpass the 400ppm marker and stay there.

Muslim Extremists Chop Off Man's Hand As Punishment For Stealing

Extremist Syrian organization named ISIS - Islamist State in Iraq and Syria - cut off a man's hand for allegedly stealing and tweeted the event and photos live. Daily Mail UK reports that ISIS claimed the man had asked for the punishment to be carried out in Maskanah, northern Syria, so he could be 'cleansed of his sins' of stealing.

The first tweet showed a blindfolded man being held down, surrounded by a large group of rebels, moments before the amputation. Two other images show a sword as it is brought down on the man's wrist... and seconds after, as the man's hand lies separated. See the graphic BELOW