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Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… Statistics Canada to release June and…

Brussels, Frankfurt (28/9 – 28) The conflict in Ukraine has held the world’s attention for a year and a half; now that it has apparently settled into an extended slugfest…

Indigenous communities are leading worldwide push to recognise legal ‘personhood’ rights of rivers, lakes and mountains. Jean-Charles Pietacho says the belief that nature is a living thing that must be…

Copenhagen (17/08 – 78) Kidnapping, intimidation, and blackmail are just some of the means used to hit enlistment quotas in Tajikistan. When conscription season comes around in Tajikistan, military recruiters…

Canadian sanctions come amid growing international condemnation over crackdown on anti-government protests across Iran. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced plans to bar about 10,000 members of Iran’s Islamic…

The law requires social media companies to pay Canadian media outlets for news content shared on their platforms. The Canadian government has put forward regulations outlining how it plans to…

TAIPEI — A U.S. congressional delegation visiting Taiwan said Friday the U.S. would act if the island was attacked and promised to resolve the $19 billion backlog in its defense purchases…

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — The United States, South Korea, and Japan are imposing new sanctions on individuals and companies that facilitate North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs,…

UNITED NATIONS — Editor’s note: Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch. U.N. Secretary-General…

Brussels (12/09 – 18.18) Elseddik Haftar, eldest son of eastern Libyan strong man Khalifa Haftar said on Monday he was open to a presidential bid, but cautioned that nationwide elections…