Teen babysitter tortured, beaten to death in Chennai; POCSO Act invoked

Teen babysitter tortured, beaten to death in Chennai; POCSO Act invoked

Chennai: A 15-year-old girl, employed as a babysitter was tortured and beaten to death here and six persons, including the couple who hired her have been arrested, police said on Sunday. Though the POCSO Act has also been invoked by police, related information is not immediately known. Police said telltale marks of torture, injuries, were … Read more

Feds expand list of Iranian officials barred from entering Canada

Feds expand list of Iranian officials barred from entering Canada

The federal government is expanding a list of Iranian officials that are inadmissible to Canada. Ottawa first introduced measures under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) in November 2022 that barred a number of senior Iranian officials from entering Canada. Those measures applied to people who were senior members of the Iranian government from … Read more

Canadian writer Mark Steyn ordered to pay climate scientist $1M US after defamation trial

Canadian writer Mark Steyn ordered to pay climate scientist M US after defamation trial

A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million US to climate scientist Michael Mann, who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester. Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published … Read more