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Photo credit: CAN Pathways Some immigrants nominated for permanent residency under the Ontario Nominee Program say they regret accepting their invitations.  Toronto Today reports that their grouse is the year-long delays that have left them out of a job. Many of them are considering leaving the country. The Ontario Immigration Nomination Program (ONIP) allows the provincial…

Photo credit: Al Jazeera As Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds, tens of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians are returning to their devastated towns and cities in northern Gaza.  Al Jazeera reports that the Israeli military has partially withdrawn from the territory under the first phase of a peace deal with Hamas. President Donald Trump of the US said…

Photo credit: IOM Libya is now home to 894,890 migrants from 45 different countries, according to the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) latest Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) report covering May to July 2025. The figure marks a 3 per cent increase compared with the previous assessment and an 18 per cent rise on the same…

Photo credit: Malay Mail Police fired five shots at the tyres of a vehicle packed with undocumented migrants during a car chase in Malaysia on Friday. Malay Mail reports that the dawn incident happened when a General Operations Force (GOF) team from the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Struggling of Migrants (ATIPSOM) Task Force and the…

Photo credit: France 24 Israel’s government has approved a ceasefire agreement with Hamas on Friday. France 24 reports that the move has set the stage for the first phase of the deal brokered under US President Donald Trump’s peace initiative. The initiative is aimed at suspending hostilities in Gaza within 24 hours and securing the release…

Photo credit: the telegraph The Home Office has chartered special flights to deport nearly 20 migrants back to France under the one-in, one-out deal. The Independent reports that nine migrants were placed on a specially commissioned passenger jet to be returned to France on Thursday, following a similar one deporting 10 migrants last Friday. In the…

Photo credit: PBS A new survey by the Centre for Public Opinion Research has found that half of Polish citizens believe their country is providing too much assistance to Ukraine. The same proportion also opposes accepting Ukrainian refugees. NV Nation reports that the poll shows 50 per cent of responders view the scale of aid to Ukraine and Ukrainians…