First Rwanda deportation flight to leave UK on 14 June, says Priti Patel
Group of asylum seekers sent formal notices advising they will be relocated to east African country, say officials The first deportation flight to Rwanda carrying...
Month : May 2022
Canadian Arctic tuberculosis outbreak lays bare overcrowded living conditions
Officials in Nunavut say there are 31 cases of active tuberculosis in the hamlet of Pangnirtung, a community of 1,500 A tuberculosis outbreak in the...
Handgun freeze in Canada and five-round limit on magazines
Government’s to introduce Bill C-21, as Justin Trudeau says sport shooting and hunting the only grounds for ‘everyday’ gun ownership Canada’s government is to legislate...
First hurricane of 2022 season makes landfall in Mexico
Analysis: Hurricane Agatha kicks off what is forecast to be another busy period of Atlantic storms The first hurricane of 2022 for the eastern Pacific...
More than 4,000 arrested in Amhara as Ethiopia cracks down on militia
At least 19 journalists caught up in mass detentions after government moves against Fano, its former ally in Tigray conflict Ethiopia has launched a sweeping...
Pro-Biafra militants accused of killing pregnant woman and children in Nigeria
Woman and four children among 14 victims of latest wave of killings in south-east Anambra State A spate of killings in south-east Nigeria blamed on...
Colombia presidential election: leftist former guerilla and populist outsider head to runoff
Rivals Gustavo Petro will face Rodolfo Hernández on 19 June amid growing discontent over inequality and inflation Colombia’s election will go to a runoff between...
Colombia goes to the polls in historic election that could see turn to left
Presidential frontrunner is former leftist guerrilla Gustavo Petro in country ruled for decades by the right Colombians head to the polls today in a presidential...
China funnels its overseas aid money into political leaders’ home provinces
Schools, stadiums or airports help the presidents of countries that receive cash from Beijing tighten their grip on power China’s financing of overseas projects has...
