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US extends status of 1 million immigrants!
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…
Texas church aids Sudanese refugees!
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…
Ontario sends firefighters, equipments to help battle LA wildfires!
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…
UN says Australia violated asylum seekers’ rights!
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…
Warming centres across Toronto continue to stay open!
Photo credit: Citynews Toronto As Toronto experiences a bone-chilling cold stretch, the city has activated its warming centres for those in need.
UK to trap people smugglers with novel sanctions regime!
Photo credit: ACL The UK will develop a new sanctions regime to cripple people smuggling crime rings and starve them of illicit finance fueling their operations. Gov.UK – the United Kingdom’s website – reports that the UK will develop a new sanctions regime to cripple people smuggling crime rings and starve them of illicit finance…
Philippines arrest 400 foreigners in scam centre!
Photo credit: the Peninsula Qatar Around 400 foreign nationals were arrested on Wednesday in a “large-scale” raid on a suspected online scam farm in Manila, according to the national immigration centre. Vnexpress.net reports that authorities raided a building and found workers allegedly engaged in online scam operations targeting victims abroad. International has grown in recent…