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Photo credit: Economic Times The Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has updated its instructions to simplify the study permit process for students enrolled in joint programs and advanced degree tracks. Under the revised rules, students in joint programs will need only one provincial o0r territorial attestation letter, even if their studies involve multiple institutions or jurisdictions, according to…

Photo credit: Amwal De Ghad Egypt’s ambassador to Korea, Hazem Zaki, said Friday that Cairo is looking to significantly deepen economic, cultural and people-to-people ties with Seoul, pointing to expanding opportunities for Korean investments and cooperation across a range of sectors. The Korea Times reports that while speaking to reporters at a dinner, Zaaki said Egypt views…

Photo credit: New York Times As campaigning intensifies in villages and towns across the country ahead of the House of Representatives elections scheduled for March 5, political parties and candidates are busy canvassing votes. The Kathmandu Post reports that at the border crossings in Sudurpaschim province, a different scene unfolds. Instead of election enthusiasm,men and women…

Photo credit: Havana Times Young Cubans live a cruel dilemma: remain in the country where they were born, muzzled and subjected  to a crisis with no expiration date, or leave for territories where everything begins from zero, but where at least one can speak without fear.  Havana Times reports that Ernesto Medina and Kamil Zayas were arrested…

Photo credit: Trinidad Guardian Long before the stage lights, the tours, and the chart placements, there was a little girl in Toco singing at the top of her lungs during family praise and worship. The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian reports that Shakema Rowe, known in the Soca world as Miss Cali, has crafted a career that…

Photo credit: Aljazeera Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney went to the World Economic Forum and told the world that his country – extrapolation, all US allies – had lived a “pleasant fiction” that is now over. That fiction was grounded in the assumption that the United States would continue to lead a global order and that such order would perpetually…

Photo credit: Foriegn Policy Pakistan deported more than 14,500 migrants to Afghanistan over the past week, according to statements from the Taliban commission for refugees, as the pace of forced returns from neighbouring countries continues to rise. Amu reports that between January 31 and February 6, a total of 14, 576 people were sent back from Pakistan,…