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Photo credit: Princeton Daily It was a day of celebration for those who left everything they once had to call a brand new place home, as Bridgeport, Connecticut, honoured the city’s refugees and their families at Seaside Park on Saturday. It was part of World Refugee Day. Deao Byakisaka, director of the refugee service for the…

Photo credit: the Guardian A Nigerian girl, Theodora Udounwa, has created waves by gaining admission into the University at i5, earning a bachelor’s degree at 17, and becoming a Doctor of Pharmacy at 21. The lady bagged her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Toronto, Niagara. Before then, she earned a bachelor’s degree within two years…

Photo credit: BBC Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, has expressed concern over the escalating war of words and deadly border clashes between Israel’s military and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters. According to him, a miscalculation will only trigger the already tense situation, and the effects will be felt even across the border. He said, “Let’s be…

Photo credit; the independent New statistics call into question British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s claims that the asylum backlog was cleared by the end of 2023. The Guardian reports that data shows appeals against the Home Office’s refusal of asylum claims increased by more than 300% in the first three months of this year. From…

Photo credit: Evening Standard A rescue ship rescued 68 migrants and found five bodies in a traditional fishing boat that was drifting off the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. AP reports that an oil tanker travelling from northwestern Spain to Brazil found the drifting boat on Wednesday afternoon about 815 kilometres south of Tenerife,…