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The UN agency is working to sustain food assistance operations across roughly 10 countries in the region, in addition to Afghanistan, Samer Abdeljaber, WFP regional director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, told UN News. Preliminary estimates indicate that about $200 million will be needed to support humanitarian operations over the next…
“It is deeply troubling that despite multiple reminders, warnings and appeals, parties to the conflict continue to use increasingly powerful drones to deploy explosive weapons with wide-area impacts in populated areas,” said the High Commissioner. He renewed his call for both sides in the brutal civil conflict between rival militaries to fully abide by international…
“The structures that have sustained persecution for years have not been dismantled, nor have State policies been announced to begin that process”, the International Fact-Finding Mission for Venezuela said in a statement released on Wednesday. The mission was set up to assess alleged human rights violations in Venezuela committed since 2014. Since Maduro’s seizure on 3…
The draft resolution, tabled by Bahrain on behalf of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members and Jordan, was adopted with 13 votes in favour and two abstentions (China and Russia). The text “condemns in the strongest terms the egregious attacks” by Iran against Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan,…
“Around the world, we hear much talk of peace, but we see far too little of it,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at a ceremony in Türkiye while accepting the Atatürk International Award for Peace. “International law continues to be trampled, power politics are gaining ground [and] inequalities are growing. New technologies, including artificial intelligence…
Members of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, an independent probe into Russia’s full-scale invasion which presented its latest report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, said that they have verified the deportation and transfer of 1,205 children from Russian-occupied areas in Ukraine to Russia or to other occupied areas in Ukraine. “Based on…
The City of Saskatoon says no legal avenues are off the table after a semi hauling an oversized load struck an overpass Wednesday. The crash happened just after 5 p.m. on Circle Drive at the 108th Street overpass in the Sutherland neighbourhood when a truck hauling an excavator hit the structure. City staff and structural…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative defence critic James Bezan says it’s “really shameful” the federal government did not tell the public that an airbase in Kuwait, where the Canadian Armed Forces have a camp, was hit by an Iranian missile attack on March 1. The newspaper La Presse reported today that…
Ashutosh Pathak and his brother needed to buy a new vehicle for their families. After searching, they finally found a Ford F-150 they felt would be perfect. “We found the truck in Ponoka, Summit Ram. As any consumer would do, we went in there and checked and inspected the vehicle,” Pathak said. “We got the…
U.S. Navy could escort vessels in Strait of Hormuz with international coalition, Bessent says The U.S. Navy, perhaps with an international coalition, will escort vessels through the Strait of Hormuz when it is militarily possible, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Sky News in an interview on Thursday (March 12, 2026). The plan to escort…
