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Photo credit: Washington Post A drone strike on a town in Sudan’s Darfur region hit a wedding party, killing at least 30 civilians, including women and children, the United Nations said Thursday. The Associated Press reports that Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN’s secretary-general, said during a briefing that the wedding ceremony was in the town…

Photo credit: Reuters European police forces in recent weeks have dismantled a migrant smuggling network that brought people from Vietnam across the European Union (EU) to Britain, earning itself up to three million euros in recent years, the EU law enforcement co-operation agency Europol said on Thursday (April 9). Asia One reports that eight people were…

Spanking is an outmoded form of parenting in Canada. The National Post reports that a new study has found that a sizeable proportion of millennial and Gen Z parents are still spanking their kids.  When asked whether they have ever spanked their child or children on their bottom with their hand, about 20 per cent of younger…

I’ll begin this article with a story about the Biafran-Nigerian civil war.  The Nigerian authorities initially felt the war would last a few weeks and often described it as a limited police action. However, the war lasted 30 months due to the resilience of the Igbo. Although they were overwhelmingly outnumbered, isolated, and lacking access to…

Photo credit: Citynews Montreal Tenants and community groups in Montreal’s Parc-Extension borough gathered for a vigil Tuesday evening to honour and remember the life of Manjeet Singh, a 42-year-old unhoused migrant, who died earlier this year, after he was evicted from his home. “He was an asylum seeker. He was alone here. His family is still back…

Photo credit: The Guardian Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and elsewhere risk their lives each year to cross the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama. The Darien Gap is an imposing obstacle on one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes. The remote, roadless crossing on the border between Colombia and Panama consists…

Photo credit: Global News Iran showed no sign of backing down on Tuesday as a US deadline loomed for it to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, defying threats by President Donald Trump to “decimate” the country’s civilian infrastructure. Hurriyet Daily News reports that the Iranian army dismissed what they called Trump’s “arrogant rhetoric and baseless threats”, saying they would not…