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Photo credit: Greek Herald The founder and chief executive of a Melbourne charity supporting asylum seekers has made a tearful appeal after thieves targeted the organization for the second time in just a few days. The Greek Herald reports that Kon Karapanagiotidis, who runs the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, revealed that the charity’s Footscray site had…

Photo credit: Picasso Phuket province in southern Thailand has set a road map for protecting about thirty dugongs that have migrated from the coasts of Trang and Krabi to areas around Rawal Beach. The dugong is a marine mammal and is one of the four living species in the order of Sirenia, which also includes…

Photo credit: Pittsburgh Post Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned on Tuesday after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as we became aware…

Photo credit: CTV News, Toronto Daily Bread Food Bank and North York Harvest Food Bank report more than one in ten Torontonians rely on food banks. Daily Bread Food Bank reports this as a 36% increase in unique clients year-over-year. Both food banks have released the annual Who’s Hungry report, which profiles poverty and food…

Photo credit: the tribune The debt owed by every Nigerian, on average, stands at 619,501 naira.  Sahara Reporters says that according to data published by the Debt Management Office, Nigeria’s public debt stood at 134,297 trillion naira in the second quarter of 2024 (June) I wonder if the debt is just for Nigerians living in Nigeria…

Photo credit: the Irish News A Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist who described surviving gunshots, and a year jailed as a political prisoner has said gaining a scholarship for refugees at a UK university gave him “hope in a hopeless place”. Independent reports that Makomborero Haruzivishe said he was an “ordinary” 19-year-old student when he joined the University…

Photo credit: Watchdog Uganda The authorities in Uganda have repatriated 146 migrants stranded in Saudi Arabia’s deportation centre and prisons, including 54 who arrived in Uganda over the weekend. AllAfrica reports that the effort was led by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social development following an agreement between both countries reached during an official…