GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot and wounded about 70 Palestinians among crowds demonstrating at the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, health officials said, after one of the deadliest days of unrest in the area in years.
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GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot and wounded about 70 Palestinians among crowds demonstrating at the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, health officials said, after one of the deadliest days of unrest in the area in years.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian authorities on Saturday arrested billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov on charges of embezzling more than $35 million, in one of the highest-profile prosecutions of a Russian tycoon in years.
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy on Saturday protested to France over a incident in which French border police entered a clinic run by a non-governmental organization that cares for migrants trying to cross the Alps, the foreign ministry said.
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AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army command said on Saturday it had regained most of the towns and villages in eastern Ghouta and was pressing its military operations in the last rebel bastion of Douma.
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DHARAMSALA, INDIA (Reuters) – The Dalai Lama called on his people to remain united as the Tibetan community gathered on Saturday in a small hill town to mark 60 years of political asylum in India – although just one federal minister appeared at the event.
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The overwhelming question for the millions of Hazaras living in segregation and on borrowed time, is when will the peace-loving and human rights champion Canada actually place itself on the right side of history in Afghanistan, writes Ali Mirzad.
On 23rd July 2016 in Kabul a terrorist attack on a peaceful Hazara protest killed 89 people and wounded more than 400 others.
In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, when Canada decided to enter the chaotic Afghan war arena, it did so primarily in a show of solidarity to its neighbour, ally and number-one trading partner, the United States. Our then Prime Minister Jean Chretien offered Canada’s full support to the cause, in order to be “On the Right Side of History.”
Since the beginning of our engagement, more than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members have deployed to Afghanistan, many being deployed more than once, making the military engagement this nation’s largest foreign involvement since World War II. Seventeen years later, with billions of tax-payers dollars donated to Afghanistan, 158 CAF casualties and thousands wounded—and that country remains infested with widespread corruption and systematic human rights violations. Canadians ought to ask themselves if we are in fact “On the Right Side of History,” in Afghanistan.
The Hazaras of Afghanistan, a distinct ethno-cultural group that over the years have seen their population methodically exterminated, certainly do not think so! The Hazaras—once the largest ethnic group of Afghanistan, constituting nearly 67 per cent of the total population of the state before the 19th century—have been the victims of a systematic ethnic cleansing and have endured inconceivable atrocities. Firstly by the 19th century Pashtun ruler Abdur Rahman Khan that indiscriminately massacred their men and sold the women and children to slavery. Then at the hands of the savage warlord Abdul Rasul Sayyaf that …read more
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China will prosecute a former senior provincial official for corruption after an investigation found he illegally accepted gifts and abused his power, the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said on Saturday.
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ACAPULCO (Reuters) – Dozens of Roman Catholic devotees dressed as ancient Romans and biblical figures fled a Good Friday procession in panic on Friday in the Mexican resort town of Acapulco after gunfire rang out over a nearby car robbery.
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government broke its silence about a riot and fire in a police station’s cells that killed dozens of prisoners on Wednesday, issuing a statement on Friday night sending condolences to relatives and promising an investigation.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro along with more than 50 Venezuelan nationals are considered “high risk” for laundering money and financing terrorism, according to an advisory issued by Panama’s economy and finance ministry.
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