Canadian pastor imprisoned for more than 2 years in North Korea arrived back home in Canada

A Canadian pastor who was imprisoned for more than two years in North Korea arrived back home Saturday.

Hyeon Soo Lim was serving a life sentence of hard labor in North Korea for alleged anti-state activities, but was released last week on what the North Korean government described as sick bail.

His son, James Lim, said it was surreal to see him again after living in fear over what might happen to him.

James Lim said his dad was extremely grateful to the Canadian government. He said his father was resting at home and looked forward to going to his church’s Sunday service and meeting with the community after so long.

“Now more than ever, he’s never felt more Canadian,” the son said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent national security adviser Daniel Jean to North Korea to seek Lim’s freedom…

Source: Pastor freed from North Korean prison arrives back in Canada – ABC News

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700,000 of Australia’s lowest paid workers will lose their Sunday penalty rates on July 1

700,000 of Australia’s lowest paid workers will lose their Sunday penalty rates which drop five percentage points on July 1.

The Fair Work Commission move to slash rates outraged unions, who believe it will unfairly cut up to $6000 a year from the pay of Australia’s poorest people working in fast food, hospitality, retail and pharmacies.

“Today over 700,000 workers right across the country will get the first of several pay cuts they don’t deserve and can’t afford,” Gerard Dwyer, secretary of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association said in a statement on Saturday.

“Our members include single parents struggling to make ends meet and students who are just getting by. Malcolm Turnbull and his government should be deeply ashamed by this unfair act.” The SDA and Hospitality union United Voice both lodged an appeal with the Federal Court last week over the Fair Work decision.

Earlier this week, opposition leader Bill Shorten said workers would lose their penalty rates at the same time as top wage earners get a tax cut with the end of the deficit levy from Saturday.

“I just ask Malcolm Turnbull to put the people first and not the top end of town,” Mr Shorten told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday…

Source: Penalty rates cut for low-paid workers from July 1

The men who plotted terror attacks on Anzac Day have had their sentences extended on appeal

Two young Melbourne men who pleaded guilty to separate terror-related offences will spend more time behind bars, after the Court of Appeal agreed that the sentences were too lenient.

The Court of Appeal handed down its rulings on Friday to challenges by Commonwealth prosecutors against sentences imposed last year on Sevdet Besim​, who planned to behead a police officer at an Anzac Day service in 2015, and on a teenager known as MHK who built a bomb and planned to detonate it on Mother’s Day the same year.

Besim, 20, was jailed for a further four years, with an extra two and a half years added to his minimum sentence. He is sentenced to 14 years, with a 10 year and six month minimum.

The teenager MHK was jailed for an extra four years, with three years and three months added to his non-parole period. He was sentenced to 11 years with a non-parole period of eight years and three months.

Source: Anzac, Mother’s Day terror plotters to spend more time behind bars

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Police publish photographs of fake explosive belts worn by London Bridge attackers

Pictures of the home-made fake explosive belts worn by the London Bridge terrorists have been released by police. The imitation suicide devices were each made from three plastic water bottles covered in silver and black duct tape, attached to a leather belt. They were worn by killers Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba on their deadly rampage last Saturday night which left eight dead and injured dozens more…

Source: Police publish photographs of fake explosive belts worn by London Bridge attackers | The Independent

Dramatic footage of TRG arrest on Perth street

DRAMATIC footage has emerged of Tactical Response Group officers carrying out a gunpoint arrest in the middle of a Perth street.

The incident happened around 3.45pm on the corner of Karel Avenue and South Street in Leeming and witness Chanelle Dangla-Cruz said she was shocked to see what unfolded.

The officers had pulled over a gold Holden Commodore.“In the middle of the median strip guns drawn, semi-assault rifles, Tasers to the forehead – it was extremely hectic and really full-on,” she told 7 News Perth.

“I automatically assumed, once realising it was a police operation, that it was a terrorist sting.”

7 News Perth’s Amelia Broun reported that police wouldn’t elaborate on the operation.

“The TRG were assisting one of our specialist units,” Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan said.

“They were doing what turned out to be a textbook piece of work.”

VIDEO HERE: Dramatic footage of TRG arrest on Perth street | Perth Now

Lesbian characters Patsy and Delia share kiss in Call The Midwife finale

It had a birth, a death and a wedding, in what proved to be an emotional hour of TV drama.

But the steamiest moment of Sunday’s Call the Midwife finale came in the closing moments, as lesbian characters Patsy and Delia shared a passionate kiss.

The nurses’ covert love affair began two years ago, but they had never before been shown kissing in the primetime BBC drama.

The display of affection between the two women came as they were reunited after a lengthy period apart, after Patsy’s father fell ill.

As she returned to London last night, she told Delia: ‘I got on the boat the day after his funeral. Wherever I go next, you’re coming with me,’ before they kissed.

MORE: Patsy and Delia share kiss in Call The Midwife finale | Daily Mail Online

#Adele Brisbane concerts: Adele confirms she is married | AGAIN!

ADELE has confirmed she is married — again.

Following months of speculation that the pop superstar and her long-term partner Simon Konecki tied the knot in a secret ceremony late last year, she last night referenced being a “married woman” at her Brisbane show.

The Brit was talking to the audience at her second show in the Sunshine State about her smash hit Someone Like You.

She explained that, while writing it, she was trying to look past the hurt and bitterness and remember what she felt when the relationship was new.

Read more: Adele Brisbane concerts: Adele confirms she is married | Perth Now