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Rival protests collide in London
Photo credit: Reuters Tens of thousands of protesters joined two rival marches in <London on Saturday – the Unite the Kingdom rally organized by far-right figure Tommy Robinson, and a pro-Palestinian demonstration. The BBC reports that over 4,000 police officers were deployed to the capital to manage a so-called “sterile zone” between the two marches. Officers also…
Cuba crisis could become a new US migration emergency says former CIA director
Photo credit: The New York Times Former CIA Director Robert Gates said Cuba’s greatest national security risk to the United States is not an imminent military attack, but the possibility that the island’s deepening crisis could produce another mass migration emergency like the 1980 Mariel boatlift. The Latin Times reports that Gates told Margaret Brennan in…
WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda
Photo credit: NBC News WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday after more than 300 suspected cases and 86 deaths. In a social media post, the World Health Organization stated that the outbreak does not meet the criteria for a…
Moroccan women climb the mountains to catch the fog and turn it into drinking water
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…
Trump losing patience with Iran over Strait closure
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…
Russia donates 25 tons of food aid to Somalia
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,…
Housing unaffordability pressures spread beyond Toronto and Vancouver
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…