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Photo credit: Citynews Montreal Tenants and community groups in Montreal’s Parc-Extension borough gathered for a vigil Tuesday evening to honour and remember the life of Manjeet Singh, a 42-year-old unhoused migrant, who died earlier this year, after he was evicted from his home. “He was an asylum seeker. He was alone here. His family is still back…

Photo credit: The Guardian Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and elsewhere risk their lives each year to cross the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama. The Darien Gap is an imposing obstacle on one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes. The remote, roadless crossing on the border between Colombia and Panama consists…

Photo credit: Global News Iran showed no sign of backing down on Tuesday as a US deadline loomed for it to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, defying threats by President Donald Trump to “decimate” the country’s civilian infrastructure. Hurriyet Daily News reports that the Iranian army dismissed what they called Trump’s “arrogant rhetoric and baseless threats”, saying they would not…

Photo credit: Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that he stood by a proposal made to Russia for a ceasefire contingent on Moscow halting all attacks on energy infrastructure. APA reports that he said this on Monday in his nightly video address. He added that the proposal had been conveyed to Moscow through the US….

Photo credit: Fox 11 For five months, the young father waited for his 3-year-old daughter’s release from federal custody after she crossed the US-Mexico border with her mother, hoping for their safe reunion. PBS News reports that only when he turned to the courts as a last resort did he learn that the girl had suffered…