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Photo credit: The New York Times Authorities in Mexico say they have arrested an alleged cartel kingpin over the decade-old disappearance of 43 students. Al Jazeera reports that Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, the suspect, was detained on charges of “organized crime.” He was taken to the Altiplano maximum security prison in Mexico. Lopez Astudillo, also known…

The annual Cabbagetown Festival is taking in Downtown Toronto. It’s pure entertainment plus business. There’s a lot to eat and drink, not just ordinary food but the local cuisines of various cultures. There are textile materials on sale from across the globe, too. Books, toys, and games are all in abundance. It’s on Saturday and Sunday,…

Photo credit: NPR Allan Lichtman, an American historian who has accurately predicted nine of the last ten presidential elections, has revealed his pick for 2024. He said on Scripps News, “So my call is that we’re going to make history here, that Kamala Harris will become the first woman president of the United States.” Harris has…

Photo credit: VOA Israeli troops have left the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Friday. They left after a lover a week of operation, which has claimed dozens of Palestinian lives.  After days of destruction by soldiers backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers, residents who had fled began returning to their…

Photo credit: Thisdaylive Ogun state of Nigeria has lost many opportunities due to inappropriate governance. Of course, I’m not exempting myself! Nicknamed the Gateway state because of its tangent location to the commercial capital, its access to the rest 9f the country and its status as a border state, it can feed the whole country…

Photo credit: BBC Mr. Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada’s NDP, has pulled his party out of an agreement his party gad with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberals. The deal was called a “supply and confidence” agreement, and it had the NDP supporting the Liberals in confidence votes. However, in a video posted on social…

Photo credit: EI Universal At least ten migrants were injured when a train derailed in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday. NTD reports that a child was missing, according to local authorities. The train transporting containers of sulphuric acid was derailed by a spill when approximately fifteen wagons left the tracks. According to witnesses,…