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READ MORE I recently did a straw poll of the women in my life and realised that I know more survivors of sexual assault than I do mothers. The national statistics are staggering – according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, “one in three women … in the US have experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime.” US Department of Justice data shows that only 310 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to the police. That means two out of every three incidents go unreported. Often times, even when these incidents are reported, they’re not taken seriously. I still can’t believe that this is the reality of most of the women I know. The sun will rise in the east, the sun will set in the west, you’ll get your period, and you’ll probably be sexually assaulted at some point in your life. That’s a raw deal. But as I watched Dr Christine Blasey Ford give testimony about how Supreme Court nominee Brett Ka...

READ MORE Negotiators from Canada and the United States went down to the wire but were able to reach an agreement on a new free trade pact that will include Mexico, the governments announced late on Sunday night. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) updates and replaces the nearly 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which US President Donald Trump had labeled a disaster and promised to cancel. The rewrite “will result in freer markets, fairer trade and robust economic growth in our region,” according to a joint statement from US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. After more than a year of talks, and six weeks of intense discussions, the governments were able to overcome their differences with both sides conceding some ground, but both hailing the agreement as a good deal for their citizens in the region of 500 million residents that conducts about $1 trillion in trade a year....

READ MORE Que s’est-il passé dans cet appartement d’un petit immeuble de Dole (Jura), en plein cœur de l’artère commerçante de la ville? Samedi 29, les forces de l’ordre ont découvert le cadavre d’un homme de 33 ans, l’occupant des lieux. Sa femme et ses enfants avaient disparu. Selon les premiers éléments connus et révélés par le journal La Voix du Jura , le trentenaire a été tué par un coup porté par un objet tranchant –probablement une hache– au niveau du cou. C’est dans l’après-midi que l’individu a été découvert mort dans son logement, situé Grande rue. Les forces de l’ordre sont intervenues, devant de nombreux témoins dans l’artère très fréquentée, après une alerte du propriétaire inquiet de ne pas avoir de nouvelles du locataire de l’appartement, d’où s...

READ MORE Les Gardiens de la révolution iraniens ont annoncé lundi matin avoir attaqué à l’aide de missiles balistiques des “terroristes” en Syrie en représailles à l’attentat meurtrier ayant endeuillé le 22 septembre la ville iranienne d’Ahvaz. “Le quartier général des responsables du crime terroriste d’Ahvaz a été attaqué il y a quelques minutes à l’est de l’Euphrate par plusieurs missiles balistiques tirés par la branche aérospatiale des Gardiens de la révolution”, a écrit l’armée d’élite de la République islamique sur son site internet. “Selon les premières informations, de nombreux terroristes takfiri et les chefs responsables du crime terroriste d’Ahvaz ont été tués ou blessés dans cette attaque”, ont-ils ajouté. Ils n’ont pas précisé à partir ...

READ MORE Canada and the U.S. have announced a tentative new trilateral trade deal with Mexico that includes some key concessions on issues of import to both countries — and also a reworked name: the United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA). “​USMCA will give our workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses a high-standard trade agreement that will result in freer markets, fairer trade and robust economic growth in our region,” Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a joint statement released late Sunday. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, shown in January, released a joint statement late Sunday. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press) “It will strengthen the middle class, and create good, well-paying jobs and new opportunities for the nearly half billion people who call North America home,” the statement sa...

READ MORE Canada and the U.S. have announced a tentative new trilateral trade deal with Mexico that includes some key concessions on issues of import to both countries — and also a reworked name: the United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA). “​USMCA will give our workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses a high-standard trade agreement that will result in freer markets, fairer trade and robust economic growth in our region,” Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a joint statement released late Sunday. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, shown in January, released a joint statement late Sunday. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press) “It will strengthen the middle class, and create good, well-paying jobs and new opportunities for the nearly half billion people who call North America home,” the statement sa...

READ MORE Palestinian romantic Ahed Tamimi, whose detain final year drew general condemnation, has been distinguished by Spanish football bar Real Madrid after she was released from Israeli prison. The 17-year-old was arrested in Dec 2017 after a video of her slapping and attack dual Israeli soldiers outward of her residence in a encampment of Nabi Saleh in a assigned West Bank went viral. Tamimi and her father Basim Tamimi were hosted during a side’s Santiago Bernabeu track in a Spanish collateral on Saturday, where she was greeted by former striker Emilio Butragueno and presented with a personalised football jersey. The 17-year-old romantic is now in Europe for a array of domestic events. She was released from jail in late Jul after being condemned to 8 months behind bars for an rumpus with Israeli soldiers in front of her house. She has emerged as a pitch of Palestinian insurgency opposite Israeli occupation. Her box has brought tellurian courtesy to a emanate of apprehe...

READ MORE Humans kill an estimated 100 million sharks annually and experts have warned that certain class face annihilation if a trend continues. Consumption of shark fin soup, essentially in China and Vietnam, is a biggest reason behind a large figure, contributing directly to a murdering of roughly half of a sharks, according to reports. The soup was historically singular to banquets and weddings hosted by a chosen in China though a mercantile bang in a nation done it permitted to a wider public, ensuing in a expenditure doubling between 1985 and 2001. To accommodate a arise in demand, shark sport increasing drastically, with many hunters throwing a shark behind in a H2O after chopping off a fin. “Shark beef tends to be of low value though shark fin soup is what’s pushing a attention and became a singular biggest reason behind such outrageous figure,” Mark Meekan, sea biologist during a Australian Institute of Marine Science, told Al Jazeera. “Sharks don...

READ MORE Le torment continuait dimanche soir sur la possibilité flow le Canada de conclure une entente avec les États-Unis sur la réforme de l’Accord de libre-échange nord américain (Aléna) à temps flow respecter la date butoir fixée standard Washington à minuit. “Beaucoup de progrès, mais nous n’y sommes pas encore”, a déclaré l’ambassadeur du Canada à Washington David MacNaughton, qui se trouvait avec la délégation canadienne rassemblée à Ottawa, avant de repartir flow Washington dans la soirée. Les discussions se déroulent standard téléphone avec les négociateurs américains, contrairement aux précédentes sessions de négociations. Le quotidien The Globe and mail, citant des sources de partial et d’autre de la frontière, avait indiqué un peu auparavant que les négociateurs canadiens et américains ...

READ MORE Le mighty typhon Trami, qui a balayé lors du week-end une grande partie du Japon, a fait au moins deux morts, and de 120 blessés et provoqué le disharmony dans les transports, en particulier lundi matin à Tokyo. Ce 24e storm de l’année en Asie a déversé sur l’archipel des pluies torrentielles et provoqué de violentes rafales de opening allant jusqu’à 216 km/h. Selon les autorités locales et la police, deux hommes ont péri, l’un emporté standard un glissement de turf à Tottori (ouest) et un autre standard la crue d’une rivière à Yamanashi, localité située au pied du mont Fuji. Deux personnes étaient en outre portées disparues, d’après la chaîne de télévision publique NHK. Le typhon était reparti vers le vast lundi, mais le trafic ferroviaire et aérien restait affecté: 200 avions étaient cloués au sol, au ...

READ MORE After some-more than a year of querulous negotiations, Canada and a U.S. have reached a indeterminate new North American Free Trade Agreement, a comparison source told CBC News. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convened a late-night assembly of cabinet to brief ministers on a NAFTA progress, usually hours before a U.S.-imposed midnight deadline. Leaving a assembly about an hour and 15 mins after it began, Trudeau pronounced usually that it was “a good day for Canada” and that he’d have some-more to contend to reporters on Monday. “It’s a good day for Canada” says Trudeau as he leaves his office. He’ll have some-more to contend tomorrow. a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”#cdnpoli/a a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/nafta?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”#nafta/a a href=”https://t.co/10MDX6rNDe”pic.twitter.com/10MDX6rNDe/a mdash; @iamSas At a he...

READ MORE California Gov. Jerry Brown sealed a toughest net neutrality magnitude in a U.S. on Sunday, requiring internet providers to contend a turn personification margin online. The pierce stirred an evident lawsuit by a Trump administration. Advocates of net neutrality wish a new law in a home of a tellurian record attention will have inhabitant implications by pulling Congress to order inhabitant net neutrality manners or enlivening other states to follow suit. But a U.S. Department of Justice wants to stop a law in a tracks, arguing that it creates burdensome, anti-consumer mandate that go opposite a sovereign government’s proceed of deregulating a internet. “Once again a California Legislature has enacted an impassioned and bootleg state law attempting to perplex sovereign policy,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions pronounced in a statement. The law is a latest instance of a nation’s many populous state seeking to expostulate open process outward a borde...

READ MORE The toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has soared to more than 800 with authorities fearing it will only climb as rescuers struggle to reach outlying communities cut off from communications and help. Dozens of people were reported to be trapped in the rubble of two hotels and a mall in the city of Palu, which was hit by waves as high as six meters (20 feet) following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Friday. A young woman was pulled alive from the rubble of the city’s Roa Roa Hotel, where up to 60 people were believed trapped. Hundreds of people gathered at the wrecked mall searching for loved ones. With most of the confirmed deaths from Palu, authorities are bracing for much worse as reports filter in from outlying areas, in particular, Donggala, a region of 300,000 people north of Palu and closer to the epicenter of the quake, and two other districts. Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the toll could rise into the thousands. Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/...

READ MORE Maltese authorities have finally allowed 58 migrants off the Aquarius to Valletta after they waited for days in rough seas on the rescue ship that can no longer go to port after its flag was pulled. The migrants, including Libyans, sub-Saharan Africans and Afghans, boarded two buses at a Malta Armed Forces base in Valletta on Sunday after being transferred from the Aquarius to a Maltese patrol boat in international waters. “All migrants who disembarked in Malta will be transferred to four other European countries in the coming days,” the Government of Malta said in a statement. The migrants include a five-month pregnant woman and Bella the dog, the first animal rescued with migrants in the Mediterranean and they are to be sent on to four European countries after a tense standoff over their fate last week. VIDEO: Maltese coast guards bring back Aquarius migrants to Valletta as the civilian rescue ship is unable to return to port for fear of being impounded pic.twitt...