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Photo credit: the Guardian The emergence of a right-wing populist party in Japan’s election on Sunday running on a “Japanese First” slogan is raising concerns of a backlash against the growing foreign presence in the country. The Guardian reports that the Sanseito Party has successfully tapped into the unease around an increasing population of immigrants and a…

Photo credit: the Globe and Mail The Prime Minister of Canada, Mr Mark Carney, has referred to Israel’s handling of humanitarian aid in Gaza as “a violation of international law.” He thereby condemns the Israeli government’s failure to prevent the “rapidly deteriorating” disaster in the region. CP24 reports that Mr Carney said in a statement on…

Photo credit: Daily Mail The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) for Essex in the United Kingdom has asked the Government to stop sending migrants to “unsuitable” hotels. The MailOnline reports that Roger Hirst said he had written to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, outlining the “unsuitability” of the Bell Hotel in Epping for housing asylum…

Photo credit: NBC News The Korean government has launched an emergency special investigation of a brick factory in Naju, South Jeolla, on Thursday after  revelations of group harassment against a foreign worker. Kore JoongAng Daily reports that the  Ministry of Employment and Labor said on Thursday  that it had become aware of an incident at a brick manufacturing business…

Photo credit: The Hub According to a national Leger poll conducted for the Association for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute, 62 per cent of the people who took part in the poll think the country is admitting too many immigrants. However, 20 per cent have a contrary opinion while 19 per cent…

Photo credit: WMDT A Baltimore pastor was arrested by immigration agents while on his way to work on Monday.  According to Maryland Matters, Daniel Fuentes Espinal who has been the pastor lof Iglesia del Nazareno in Easton since 2015 is an undocumented immigrant. He fled the violence in his country, Honduras, in 2001 and settled in…

Photo credit: the Guardian The crowd that assembled outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Thursday morning was small and muted. International pilgrims jostled with dark-robed Greek Orthodox monks, but one group of native worshippers was absent. The Guardian reports that for generations, tens of thousands of Palestinian Christians living in Israeli-occupied…