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Apr 7, 2026
First Nation asks court to block Alberta referendum on seceding from Canada
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has asked a court to halt the separatist push, arguing it would violate their treaty rightsA First Nation in Alberta has said that a separatist push for the province to secede from Canada is “consummately irresponsible and dishonourable” and should be shut down, arguing in court that a proposed referendum would violate their treaty rights.A minority of residents of the oil-rich province have long argued that the province’s woes are due to the structure of payments to the federal government and a perceived inability to get their vast fossil fuel reserves to market. Continue reading...
Apr 7, 2026
‘We still deserve due process,’ says Cambodian man deported by US to Eswatini
Pheap Rom was one of 15 people sent to prison in African kingdom last year despite completing US sentencesA Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia, but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country he knew so little about that when he first read the name he thought it was another immigration detention centre in Louisiana.Pheap Rom, who had been convicted of attempted murder, was one of 10 deportees sent to Eswatini by the US in October 2025. They joined a group of five men, from Cambodia, Cuba, Jamaica, Vietnam and Yemen, who were deported to the small southern African country in July. All were sent to a maximum-security prison. Rom was deported from Eswatini to Cambodia in March. Continue reading...
Apr 7, 2026
Pope says Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization is 'unacceptable'
Pope Leo XIV says that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization is “truly unacceptable” and that any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law
Apr 7, 2026
Hundreds of Cuban women rally against US energy blockade as crisis deepens
Hundreds of Cuban women have gathered in Havana to decry a U.S. energy embargo and other measures imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island
Apr 7, 2026
Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood
Rosedale residents considering car licence plate-scanning Flock system in bid to tackle property crimeA row has broken out in one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods over plans to use an AI-powered surveillance system to create the country’s first “virtual gated community” to combat surging property crime.Crime rates in Toronto as a whole are dropping but residents of Rosedale have been left on edge by a sustained rise in home invasions, with robbers targeting the tree-lined neighbourhood at a rate more than double the city average. Break-ins and thefts remain the third highest per capita in Toronto. Continue reading...
Apr 7, 2026
Afghanistan says peace talks held in China to end fighting with Pakistan have been constructive
Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry says peace talks held in China between Afghanistan and Pakistan to halt cross-border fighting between the two neighbors have been constructive
Apr 7, 2026
Japanese national believed to be NHK journalist detained in Iran released on bail
Japan’s top government spokesperson says a Japanese national who had been detained in Iran since January has been released on bail
Apr 7, 2026
Vietnam elects Communist Party chief as president, echoing China's power structure
Vietnam has unanimously elected Communist Party leader To Lam as president, consolidating his control over both party and state
Apr 7, 2026
Former Australian soldier charged with committing 5 war crime murders in Afghanistan
A former Australian soldier has been charged with war crimes on allegations that he killed five unarmed Afghans while serving in Afghanistan from 2009 and 2012
Apr 7, 2026
Car shell suspended on rock face above British Columbia highway in apparent prank
Authorities in British Columbia have urged people to stay away from a rock face above a highway in the Canadian province where a Volkswagen Beetle shell was suspended in an apparent prank by engineering students
Apr 7, 2026
Bangladesh conducts emergency measles vaccinations as outbreak kills more than 100 children
Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles-rubella vaccinations while trying to contain an ongoing outbreak that has killed more than 100 children
Apr 3, 2026
‘India is going to face a food crisis’: Farmers panic over fertiliser shortages amid Iran war
Ripple effects of oil and fertiliser shortage felt by farmers in India and Sri Lanka despite governments saying there is enough stock to go roundGurvinder Singh never thought the war in Iran would touch his quiet corner of Punjab.Yet looking out over his smallholding, where he alternates between wheat and rice crops in the state known as India’s breadbasket, the 52-year-old farmer can barely think of anything else. His anxiety over a conflict playing out thousands of miles away is crippling as he fears what will come of this season’s rice crop. Continue reading...
