Canada’s largest province has announced plans to help search for unmarked burial sites at residential schools, weeks after the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found at the site of a former school on the country’s west coast. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said during a […]
Day: June 15, 2021
US seeks to fine Air Canada over extreme delays with refunds
The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) said on Tuesday that it is seeking to fine Air Canada about $25.5m for what it termed extreme delays in giving refunds to thousands of passengers whose flights across the US-Canada border were cancelled or rescheduled. The DOT […]
California and New York reopen as US passes 600,000 COVID deaths
The United States’ death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000 on Tuesday, even as the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and fatalities and allowed the country to emerge from the gloom and look forward to summer. The undesirable milestone, based on a Johns […]
Colombia protest leaders suspending weekly demonstrations
The leaders of mass anti-government protests in Colombia have said they plan to suspend their weekly demonstrations but promised to continue to fight for widespread social and economic reforms. National strike committee spokesman Francisco Maltes said on Tuesday that the umbrella group of workers’ unions, […]
CAIR calls on Hilton Hotels to drop Xinjiang project
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging Hilton Worldwide Holdings to drop plans to build a hotel in China’s Xinjiang region on the site where Chinese officials bulldozed and desecrated a mosque. “The notion that a corporation would do business in the same location […]
Biden to nominate Thomas Nides as US ambassador to Israel
United States President Joe Biden will nominate Wall Street banker and former State Department official Thomas R Nides to be the country’s next ambassador to Israel, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday. Nides is vice chairman of Morgan Stanley, the fourth-largest US […]
Infamous human smuggler sentenced to 18 years in Ethiopian prison
An Eritrean human smuggler, accused of extorting thousands of refugees and migrants in Libya, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Tewelde Goitom, known as Welid, was also ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 birrs ($4,608) – the […]
US police shooting of Black man in Georgia echoes Breonna Taylor
Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was lying with his eyes closed on a couch in his apartment near the US city of Atlanta when police serving a narcotics search warrant burst through the front door with guns drawn and no warning. Bolton stood up and at least […]
Could ICC hold Duterte accountable for Philippines’ war on drugs?
Philippines is battling one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in Southeast Asia but many are reluctant to get the jab. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/6/15/could-icc-hold-duterte-accountable-for-philippines-war-on-drugs
Gaza: Protests against Israeli far-right march through Jerusalem
Hundreds of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have protested against a “provocative” march by Israeli far-right nationalists through occupied East Jerusalem. Tuesday’s so-called “March of the Flags”, which marked the anniversary of Israel’s 1967 occupation of the city’s eastern part, came as tensions remain […]