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First Afghan woman to compete internationally after Taliban takeover seeks Paralympic gold in Paris
Afghan Taekwondo Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi, part of the Refugee Olympic Team, poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Journalists covering Nigeria protests dodge bullets as police arrest nearly 700 people
Nigerian security forces stand guard during the third day of anti-government demonstrations against bad governance and economic hardship in Lagos, Nigeria August 3, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko
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Third set of remains found with gunshot wound in search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre graves
FILE - Crews work at Oaklawn Cemetery during an excavation while searching for bodies from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Oct. 27, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. A third set of remains with a gunshot wound has been found in the search for graves of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre at a Tulsa cemetery, according to a state official. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)
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Exchanged prisoner Ilya Yashin condemns his ‘illegal expulsion’ from Russia
Russian dissidents Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Andrei Pivovarov hold a press conference after being freed in a multi-country prisoner swap in Bonn, Germany, August 2, 2024. REUTERS/Leon Kuegeler
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To support Venezuelan democracy, Canada should reopen its embassy in Caracas
Ben Rowswell
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Amnesty International names B.C. chief the first prisoner of conscience held in Canada
Chief Dsta'hyl of the Wet'suwet'en Nation appears via videoconference from his home as he is under house arrest, as he is announced by Amnesty International as Canada's first-ever prisoner of conscience, during a news conference in West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The announcement marks the first time that Amnesty has declared a person held in Canada as a prisoner of conscience. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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UN report says Palestinians detained by Israeli authorities since Oct. 7 faced torture, mistreatment
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 26: Members of the Un Security Council listen as Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question at the United Nations headquarters on July 26, 2024 in New York City. The Security Council held a meeting to discuss the nine month-war between Israel and Hamas as Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump. Israeli PM Netanyahu also met separately this week with U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice President and presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris after addressing a joint session on Congress. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in abusive U.S. boarding schools
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Investigation of soldiers over alleged sexual abuse fuels tension between Israeli military and government hard-liners
Israeli soldiers gather at the gate to the Sde Teiman military base, where inside, soldiers are being questioned for detainee abuse, Monday, July 29, 2024. The Israeli military said Monday it was holding nine soldiers for questioning following allegations of "substantial abuse" of a detainee at a shadowy facility where Israel has held Palestinian prisoners throughout the war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
opinion
If Canada believes in human rights, it must push for an inquiry into Bangladesh’s student deaths
Saad Hammadi
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At least 22 killed in RSF attacks on Sudan’s al-Fashir, says activist group
Armed men salute the governor of Sudan's Red Sea State Mustafa Mahmud in Port Sudan in the war-torn country on July 24, 2024. Sudan has been gripped by war since April 2023, when fighting erupted between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. The conflict in the country of 48 million has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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France’s ban on athletes in hijabs makes a mockery of the Olympic charter
Sheema Khan
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Paris charity workers decry police operations clearing out encampments ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony
The police evict migrants from a city squat on Thursday, July 25, 2024, one day before the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. Siegfried Modola/The Globe and Mail
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A report says 200,000 people were abused in care in New Zealand over decades in ‘national disgrace’
People arrive at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, for the tabling of a wide-ranging independent inquiry into the abuse of children and vulnerable adults in care over the span of five decades wrote in a blistering final report. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)
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China talks of mending fractured relations but says it won’t tolerate Canadian criticism of its human-rights record
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly speaks during a reception honouring the visit of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo/File Photo
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Group says photos of reclusive tribe on Peru beach show logging concessions are ‘dangerously close’
Members of the Mashco Piro Indigenous community, a reclusive tribe and one of the world's most withdrawn, gather on the banks of the Las Piedras river where they have been sighted coming out of the rainforest more frequently in search of food and moving away from the growing presence of loggers, in Monte Salvado, in the Madre de Dios province, Peru, June 27, 2024. Survival International/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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Amnesty International urges Canada to ban arms exports to Peru
Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard (3rd-R) poses for a picture next to Raul Samillan (C), President of the Association of Martyrs and Victims of January 9 in Juliaca, Peru, and victims' relatives during the presentation of an Amnesty International report on state repression in Lima on May 25, 2023. The Lethal Racism report addresses human rights violations, unnecessary violence, and the loss of lives during the protests and repression following the fall of then President Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022, after he attempted a coup d'etat, closing Congress, and ruling by decree. (Photo by Cris BOURONCLE / AFP) (Photo by CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli forces strike areas in central Gaza, send tanks further into Rafah
Palestinians inspect the damage as the collapsed minaret of Abdullah Azzam mosque leans against a house after the mosque was hit by an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, July 17, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
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Bread and Roses is a ‘siren call’ about women’s rights
Johanna Schneller
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Thousands mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide which is denied by Serbs, fueling ethnic tensions in Bosnia
Bosnian Muslim men say prayer during a mass funeral at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 11, 2024. REUTERS/Amel Emric
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