Refugees

Rome, Italy - The Italian rescue ship Mare Jonio was 64km off the Libyan coast on Thursday evening, when its crew sighted a raft in distress. The five-metre rubber dinghy was crammed with 30 people, and its engine was broken. "It was so small that rad…

South China Sea crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard a small craft in this undated photo. John Bolton Is Leading Donald Trump (and the Rest of Us) Into Conflicts in Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea A Bide…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Leaves changing colour on trees in Autumn draw "leaf peeper" tourists to Vermont President Donald Trump has claimed that the United States "is full", and incapable of allowing entry to any new and diverse migrants. …

OTTAWA—Operators are not standing by. That's the conclusion reached by the Auditor General's office after an audit of call centres found that millions of calls from Canadians seeking information about government services weren’t being answered. Half of the…

OTTAWA -- If you were one of the millions who tried to reach a federal department or agency on the phone in the last year or so, this may not come as much of a surprise, but a new report from the federal auditor general has found that millions of…

Two Saudi Arabian sisters who say they escaped an abusive family in their home country announced on Tuesday that they have been granted asylum and will start a "new life." Maha al-Subaie, 28, and Wafa al-Subaie, 25, fled Saudi Arabia last month, citing opp…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is set on Tuesday to offer new incentives to Venezuela’s military to turn against President Nicolas Maduro, responding to an attempted uprising that fizzled out last week, a senior administration official …

Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg discuss a few comics from one of the best cartoonists of their generation! Eleanor Davis’ books: You & A Bike & A Road Libby’s Dad BDSM (Frontier 11) How to Be Happy Why Art?  Eleanor Davis art & comics on Instagram Subscrib…

This Saturday, May 4, at 7:30PM, I'll be presenting at the Ottawa Writers Festival, talking about my novel Radicalized and how it ties into surveillance, monopoly, refugees, climate change, racism and oligarchy -- all the good stuff! I'm coming to Halifax to…

Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest storms to hit India in two decades, made landfall on Friday morning in the eastern state of Odisha — leaving a path of destruction in its wake and impacting an area that tens of millions of people call home. At least seve…