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Photo credit: Arise News A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code.  CNN reports that the woman sitting outside the university in her underwear, with her hair uncovered, gestured to her fellow students….

Photo credit: the Guardian At least 55 people died trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands in boats from the coast of Africa over the weekend. AA reports that the Spanish Coast Guard also rescued 1,786 people, making the voyage on one of the most dangerous routes in the world. The worst tragedy took place on a…

Photo credit: Dailly Mail A British businessman has allegedly murdered an Indonesian working as a maid in Hong Kong. DailyMail.com reports that the lady was working to send some money to her family before her death. They were reported to be lovers. The man Jamie Chapman is accused of killing Mevi Novitasari after a night-time…

Photo credit: ABC news A total of seventy-six protesters have been charged to court with felony counts, including treason, destruction of property, public disturbance and mutiny in a Nigerian court for participating in a protest of the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. AP reports that twenty-nine children aged between 14 and 17 years are among the…

Photo credit: Toronto.com An ongoing police investigation into auto thefts has led to the arrest of 59 people and the laying of 302 charges. Toronto Sun reports that the investigation began in July and is tagged Project Thoroughbred. Warrants have been issued for more than a dozen people, and more than 363 stolen vehicles, valued…

Every human being is made in God’s image. When we value the lives of others, humanity itself is lifted. Credit: © Liz Van Steenburgh | Dreamstime.com Broken, grieving, sometimes confused, often afraid, and complicit, we struggle to know how to respond. Today marks one year since the horrific escalation of violence in Israel, Gaza, the…

Photo credit: Britanica Trump has vowed to stage the “largest deportation in American history.” The Guardian reports that raids and mass deportations lie at the heart of former President, Donald Trump’s second term vision -a web of policies so vast that critics say their collective implementation would challenge the very ideal of the United States as a…