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Photo credit: Richard Nixon Foundation The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of US President Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile Communist Bloc nations think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the US in fear of an…

Photo credit: Aljazeera “The Government of Pakistan should host an international multilateral stakeholders’ conference aimed at addressing the challenges related to voluntary repatriation and third-country resettlement of Afghan refugees,” according to Muhammad Abbas Khan, Chief Commissioner for Afghan Refugees (CCAR) at the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON). The Nation reports that Mr Khan…

Photo credit: Washington Post President Joe Biden of the United States has extended temporary legal status for about 1 million immigrants from El Salvador, Venezuela, and Ukraine. The Times of India reports that the decision will benefit over 200,000 Salvadorans, 600,000 Venezuelans, and others. This comes a few days before President-elect Donald Trump, who has…

Photo credit: Baptist Press South Sudanese attending All Nations Worship Church, a ministry of Paramount Baptist Church in Amarillo, know the pain of those displaced by the war in Sudan, which has created the greatest humanitarian crisis globally. Baptist Press reports that Paramount Missions Pastor David Preston, who copastors All Nations with Paramount Missionary in Residence…

Photo credit: CBC Canada’s Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan says Canadian military personnel, their equipment and another 250 firefighters stand “ready to support our American neighbours” as wildfires devastate parts of Southern California. Nsauga reports that his pledge comes as the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre said Thursday that the US National Interagency Fire Centre asked…

Photo credit: Aljazeera Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru; a UN watchdog ruled on Thursday. France 24 reports that the UN Human Rights Committee published decisions in two cases involving 25 refugees and asylum seekers who endured years of arbitrary detention in the island nation. The panel…

Photo credit: Citynews Toronto As Toronto experiences a bone-chilling cold stretch, the city has activated its warming centres for those in need.