French-speaking Canadians concentrated in the province of Quebec have long sought more autonomy from the central government in Ottawa and the rest of the mainly English-speaking North American country – to the point of wanting to secede from the union and create a new, independent...
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Ugandan officials said they wouldn’t renew the mandate of the United Nations human rights office in the country, claiming the East African nation has made progress in developing a domestic capacity to monitor such issues, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday. The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said...
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Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry formally installed a transition council this week that is to help usher the crisis-plagued Caribbean country toward long-overdue elections, Reuters reported. Henry said the creation of the High Transition Council marks the “beginning of the end of dysfunction in our democratic...
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A Singaporean man is suing a woman for more than $2 million in damages after she rebuffed his romantic advances and told him she saw him as a friend, in a case observers say underscores issues of sexism and misogyny faced by women in Singapore,...
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The movie “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” introduced audiences to the T-1000, a killer android that could easily change its shape. While the character played by Robert Patrick is fictional, a group of scientists recently developed a similar miniature – and non-violent – version of the terminator,...
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