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900,000 migrants in Libya – IOM!
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…
Human smugglers ram police car in Malaysia!
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…
Israel’s govt ratifies Gaza deal!
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…
First Channel migrant charter flights leave Britain!
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…
Poles divided on support for Ukrainian refugees!
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…
Israel, Hamas agree to release prisoners, hostages!
Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause fighting in Gaza so that the remaining hostages can be freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. AP re[ports that both parties have accepted some elements of a plan put forward by the Trump administration. It would represent the biggest breakthrough in m months in the devastating war. President Donald Trump wrote that,…
Canada, US lose $2.9B in wheat crops, climate change diseases!
Photo credit: Canada Grocer A new multi-year study has pointed to a real-time example of the effects of climate change on agriculture. UkrAgroConsult reports that a recent paper has suggested that diseases cost Canadian and US wheat producers US$2.9 billion between 2018 and 2021. That equates to the loss of about 560 million bushels, or about $18.10 per acre…