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Photo credit: ITVX The game was up for a couple of men, Dilshad Shamo and Ali Khdir, who were facilitating the illegal entry of migrants from outside the EU. WalesOnline reports that both men ran their operation from a car wash on the side of a busy Caerphilly road, and it was difficult to comprehend…

Photo credit: Reuters At least six people have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a police station in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. AA reports that Israeli warplanes struck the police facility in the camp, marking another violation of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The attack resulted…

Photo credit: Euro News Tighter EU borders and migration deals with African countries have failed to reduce the number of departures from Africa, but merely temporarily diverted irregular routes, according to a report by the International  Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) The ICMPD, an organization that works for the EU and European governments to develop migration policies,…

Photo credit: used.fi A new study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland highlights the challenges faced by older immigrants in Finland when seeking social and healthcare services, employment and citizenship. News Medical Life Sciences reports that the empirical socio-legal research was published in Retfaerd  (Nordic Journal of Law and Justice). The study outlines the regulations stipulated in Finnish laws and…

Photo credit: Washington Post A drone strike on a town in Sudan’s Darfur region hit a wedding party, killing at least 30 civilians, including women and children, the United Nations said Thursday. The Associated Press reports that Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN’s secretary-general, said during a briefing that the wedding ceremony was in the town…

Photo credit: Reuters European police forces in recent weeks have dismantled a migrant smuggling network that brought people from Vietnam across the European Union (EU) to Britain, earning itself up to three million euros in recent years, the EU law enforcement co-operation agency Europol said on Thursday (April 9). Asia One reports that eight people were…

Spanking is an outmoded form of parenting in Canada. The National Post reports that a new study has found that a sizeable proportion of millennial and Gen Z parents are still spanking their kids.  When asked whether they have ever spanked their child or children on their bottom with their hand, about 20 per cent of younger…