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Photo credit: Daily Galaxy For generations, women in southwest Morocco’s Ait Baamrane region spent up to four hours a day walking to wells and hauling back five-gallon barrels of water on their heads. Europe Says reports that each barrel weighed nearly 50 pounds. The task consumed their mornings, kept girls out of school, and shaped…

Photo credit: Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his patience with Iran was wearing thin and claimed that Chinese President XI Jinping agreed Tehran should reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though Beijing gave no sign it intended to intervene directly. ThisisBeirut reports that Speaking aboard Air Force One while returning from Beijing after…

Photo credit: Facebook Somalia’s Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Abdifatah Qasim  Mohamud, accompanied by the Commissioner of the Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), Mahmoud Moalim Abdulie, on Friday received a food aid donation from the Ambassador of Russia to Somalia and Djibouti, Mikhail Golovanov, who is on a working visit to Somalia. The assistance,…

Photo credit: Yahoo Canada Canada’s housing affordability crisis is spreading beyond its two most expensive cities,according to a new index report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Money Canada reports that CMHC’s latest Housing Affordability Composite Index shows affordability pressures have spread to cities such as Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax, even as national…

Photo credit: CBC Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15 – billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario due to changing business conditions. CBC reports that the Japanese automaker said last May it was pausing development at the plant, with plans to review where the EV market was at in two years. The decision to more…

Photo credit: Aljazeera Over 40 percent of Sudan’s population is being faced by acute hunger, according to a report  by a global hunger monitor, the three-year civil war having created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.  Al Jazeera reports that nearly 19.5 million Sudanese people are facing such dire circumstances, the United Nations-backed Food…

Photo credit: Washington Post Dozens of boats carrying activists and aid for Palestinians set sail from Turkey’s Mediterranean coast on Thursday in the latest attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza – just weeks after Israel intercepted a previous flotilla and detained two activists. The Associated Press reports that more than 50 vessels departed from…