Black Sea Oil Spill Renders Russian Resorts Unfit for Summer Vacation, Top Health Official Warns
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Day: April 19, 2025
Ghana: President John Mahama names envoy to Sahel states
Ghana’s president John Mahama has extended an invitation to the military leaders of Burkina Faso Mali and Niger to attend next week’s 50th anniversary celebrations of ECOAS in Accra. The three Sahelian nations withdrew from the regional block after fa…
As foreign actors work to influence Canada’s election, how safe is your vote?
This is the first federal election since the final report on foreign interference was delivered. Advocates and security officials alike say they’re seeing adversaries wage influence campaigns aimed at diaspora communities. What is the risk, and what’s …
‘Worse than death’: Victims describe the nightmare of Bangladesh’s secret prisons during former regime
As Bangladesh tries to rebuild a robust democracy following the student-led uprising that ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, a clearer picture is emerging of the previous regime’s treatment of dissenters. Hasina is accused of overseeing a system of enforced disa…
An American constitutional crisis brews in a Central American prison
U.S. President Donald Trump has done numerous things in his second term that have been deemed authoritarian. But there’s one line he hasn’t crossed, at least not yet. He has not wilfully, clearly, defied a court order, crossing the Rubicon into a const…
Trump is demanding universities change policies or face defunding. Would Poilievre do the same?
U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made for Canadian post-secondary schools.
The European city where house prices are rising faster than New York and Dubai
This stunning city has become the strongest property hotspot in the world in terms of price increases.
Could an earthquake shift the balance in Myanmar’s civil war?
Aftershocks of Myanmar’s devastating earthquake add new dimension to country’s four-year-long civil war.
Putin cannot be trusted, says Ukraine after Russia announces ‘Easter truce’ – as it happened
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here:Putin announces surprise ‘Easter truce’Here are some of the latest images on the newswires:Russian troops recaptured the village of Oleshnya in Russia’s western Kursk region from Ukrainian f…