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Canada: Muslims in Calgary holds food, clothing drive for Syrian newcomers and needy

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More than 150 volunteers helped a Muslim charity hand out food and winter clothing to an estimated 1,200 needy in Calgary, Canada. The Muslim Families Network Society (MFNS) a non-profit NGO , provided canned food, warm clothing and grocery gift cards to newly arrived Syrian refugees and many others needy in the area. Idrees Khan, the chairwoman of the society …

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Canada lost 6,400 jobs in June, and results beat economists’ expectations

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  According to Statistics Canada , The Canadian economy lost 6,400 jobs in June as gains in full-time work were offset by losses of part-time jobs. And The jobless rate stayed steady at 6.8 per cent, the same level it has been at since February. It was a better showing than what a consensus of economists were expecting, which was a …

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UN urges Canada to provide more support to Syrian refugees

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The United Nations (UN) has called on Canada to do more to help Syrian refugees struggling with the Syrian war crisis. The call comes only a few days after the UN urged wealthier nations to help re-settle over 100,000 displaced Syrians. Canada, which has pledged to let in 1,300 refugees, needs to show its humanitarianism, Furio De Angelis, the representative …

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Syria: regime claims freeing 11,000 prisoners under amnesty

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Syria has released around 11,000 detainees since the declaration of a general amnesty in June, Syria’s National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar said. However, several rights groups claim that over 200,000 people are still withering away in government jails. Haider on Monday told AFP that “11,000 people have benefited from the amnesty and been released from prison”, referring to the “general …

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New York: 4,000-year-old Egyptian relics purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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New York’s renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art has purchased a collection of Egyptian artifacts, discovered a century ago by famed British archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and deemed to be over 4,000 years old, thereby averting a much-criticized plan to auction off the artifacts. The Treasure of Harageh consists of 37 items including flasks, jewelry inlaid with rare minerals …

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Kenyan President to be brought up at ICC for crimes against humanity

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On Monday, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said that he will face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC), thereby becoming the only sitting President to be bought up at the ICC. However, Kenyatta, the son of Kenyan independence hero and first Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta, said that he will first hand over power temporarily to “protect …

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Syria: IS executes hundreds of federal soldiers from captured garrison

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Extremists from the Islamic State have executed over 160 Syrian soldiers fleeing from them, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday. The assault is the latest of several human rights abuses in the country which have alarmed Western powers, who are afraid of a global escalation of terror. The killings come as US President Barack Obama is reportedly …

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The double-standard policy is the worst threat to the credibility of international law

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Sergei Lavrov, the foreign affairs minister of the Russia, which leads the “axis of evil” in the world, said that it is inconceivable and illegal to hold elections in Ukraine while a faction of the Ukrainian people, i.e. the Russian-speaking minority, is under an armed threat. Bashar Al-Assad’s criminal regime has killed more than 200,000 Syrians, including 60,000 women and …

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Nigeria: Boko Haram suspected of kidnapping eight more girls, US offers help

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On Tuesday, residents of Warabe in Nigeria’s northeast say suspected Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped eight more girls from the region. The leader of the extremist group last month had said that the group had abducted more than 200 schoolgirls. According to the residents, the assailants were looking for girls in every household in an attack in Warabe late on Sunday, …

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