Photo credit: BBC Witnesses have alleged that the Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean over three years. The BBC reports that the witnesses said the migrants were thrown overboard deliberately. Nine among more than forty people were said to have died as a result of being forced out of Greek…
Photo credit: Vanguard Most of us grew up in relatively more peaceful and crimeless times than we are experiencing now. The social utilities were also much more effective. In actual fact, I can vividly recall that if there was need for the ECN, as the electricity supply monopoly was then called, to cease the supply…
Photo credit: ABC News Shipping containers have been transformed into refuges for several unsheltered people. Known as “The Melody,” the gated micro-community no longer looks like a parking lot.It has artificial turf spread across the asphalt, potted plants and fed Adirondack chairs abound with a dog park. The shipping containers have been made comfortable by…
Photo credit: Reuters Immigrants have been accused of stealing jobs and government resources in the United States. The controversial former President and White House hopeful, Donald Trump, made this allegation while courting separate groups of Black voters and hardcore conservatives in Michigan. The Irish Times reports that the former president made many new baseless claims…
Photo credit: Pahjwok Afghan News As a result of the approaching Muslim festivities, security has been beefed up in Peshawar, Pakistan. The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has, therefore, imposed a complete ban on the entry of Afghan refugees into the provincial capital. Pakistan Observer reports that the Capital City Police, Qasim Ali Khan, announced that “Afghan…
