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Canada moves into top 5 countries in refugee claims
Toronto Star· 5 days agoDespite its geographic isolation from the rest of the world save for the United States, Canada was the fifth largest recipient country of asylum seekers...
Shipwrecks off Italy leave 11 dead and dozens missing
BBC News· 13 hours agoAt least 11 people have died and more than 60 are missing as a result of two shipwrecks off the...
Top EU court fines Hungary $216 million for flouting asylum law
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court ordered Hungary to pay a fine of 200 million euros...
UN says violence against children in conflict reached extreme levels in 2023, including in Gaza
Toronto Star· 7 days agoFor the first time, the U.N. report put Israeli forces on its blacklist of countries that violate children’s rights for the killing and maiming of children and attacking schools and hospitals ...
Opinion | U.N. Humanitarian Chief: World Leaders Are Failing Us
New York Times· 1 day agoThey are breaking the compact between ordinary people and those in whom power is vested.
Many refugees coming to central Alberta need more trauma care: expert
Red Deer Advocate· 12 hours agoAfter Martha Cortes's father was murdered in his native Colombia for not allowing cocaine to be grown in his fields, the terrorists kidnapped her and her husband. Cortes, now a Red Deer citizen ...
Migrant shipwrecks off Italy leave 11 dead, more than 60 missing
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoThe second shipwreck took place about 200 km (125 miles) east of the Italian region of Calabria, as a boat that had set off from Turkey caught fire and overturned, the agencies...
Some Syrian refugees risk returning to opposition-held areas as hostility in host Lebanon grows
AOL· 6 days agoFor more than a decade, a steady flow of Syrians have crossed the border from their war-torn country into Lebanon. Until this year, the numbers returning from Lebanon were so low that the local ...
Iran installing and starting cascades of advanced centrifuges as tensions high over nuclear program
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days agoDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has started up new cascades of advanced centrifuges and...
Global leader of ISIS targeted and possibly killed in U.S. airstrike
AOL· 3 days agoThe U.S. military targeted the global leader of ISIS in an airstrike in Somalia late last month but cannot confirm whether he was killed, three U.S. officials say. The U.S. government has publicly ...