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Jury selection begins in trial for 3 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols’s death
FILE - Candles spell out the name of Tyre Nichols during a candlelight vigil for Nichols on the anniversary of his death, Jan. 7, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. The city of Memphis has released hours of more video in the case of five former police officers charged with the violent beating and death of Nichols. The recordings were released Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 based on a judge’s order on the same day last November that former officer Desmond Mills Jr. pleaded guilty to federal charges. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht, file)
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TIFF 2024: Iran’s ferocious new films lead to exile
TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 04: A view of the atmosphere as the city of Toronto prepares for the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 04, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
opinion
The Taliban are waging war on women in Afghanistan. This is how we are resisting
Zahra Nader
world
UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed
FILE PHOTO: A man walks while smoke rises above buildings after aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
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Investor pressure on Nike builds over garment workers’ rights
People visit the Nike store at 5th Avenue during the holiday season in New York City, U.S., December 9, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
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At least 129 people dead after attempted jailbreak in Congo’s main prison
A Police vehicle with officers leave the Makala Prison in Kinshasa on September 3, 2024. An attempted jail break at the Democratic Republic of Congo's largest and chronically overcrowded prison this week has left at least 129 people dead, the interior minister said on September 3, 2024. The circumstances around the bid to bust out of Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa in the early hours of September 2, 2024 remain unclear. (Photo by Hardy BOPE / AFP) (Photo by HARDY BOPE/AFP via Getty Images)
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A new Taliban law is silencing women’s voices in Afghanistan
Sally Armstrong
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A Libyan human trafficker sanctioned by the UN has been killed in Tripoli, officials say
FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
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More than 80 teenagers arrested in Venezuela’s post-election protests released from prison
Family members of those detained amid a government crackdown on protestors light candles during a vigil in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Two new senate appointments for Alberta include critic of school pronoun policy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday that Gov.-Gen. Mary Simon has named Daryl Fridhandler, a corporate lawyer, and Kristopher Wells, a professor and advocate for the 2SLGBTQI+ community, to fill vacancies in the Senate. Simon arrives in the Senate's red chamber for a ceremony in Ottawa, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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UN will continue to engage the Taliban in Afghanistan despite new laws restricting women
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Queen’s professor Alvin Y.H. Cheung sounded alarm about China’s threat to Hong Kong
Alvin Cheung, Queen’s University law prof
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Rapper Macklemore cancels Dubai show to protest UAE role in Sudan war
US rapper Macklemore performs during the opening ceremony of the 2023 Invictus Games at the Merkur Spielarena in Düsseldorf, western Germany on September 9, 2023. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Taliban vice and virtue laws provide ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy
Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)
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Canada halts planned deportation of bisexual man to Kenya
Supporters of a bisexual man in Canada on the verge of being deported to Kenya say the federal government has halted the move just a day before his scheduled flight. Charles Mwangi, 48, has been granted a one-year temporary resident permit, he is seen in a Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Migrant Workers Alliance, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Tanzania’s Maasai protest eviction in the name of conservation
Maasai people at a protest against the threat of eviction from their land. Photo taken on March 16, 2022 at Endulen village, inside the Ngorongoro conservation area in Tanzania. Photo credit to Robert Bociaga
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Two freelance journalists reportedly killed with guerrillas in army raid on home in southern Myanmar
FILE - Army officers stand guard as police officers patrol in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar, on May 29, 2013. Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday July 25, 2024 to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters, and Mogok, the center of the country’s lucrative gem-mining industry. (AP Photo/Ain Khaing Myae, File)
opinion
Unfreedom is in the very fabric of the Hudson’s Bay Company – and the origins of Canada
Tanya Talaga
world
Curb hate speech that fuelled riots, UN committee urges Britain
FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators toss a trash bin during an anti-immigration protest, in Rotherham, Britain, August 4, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photo
opinion
As the crisis flares again, Canada – and the world – is abandoning the Rohingya
Jason Nickerson
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