Canada has announced donating CAD 3 million ($2.2 million) to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday. OCHA wrote on X: “OCHA thanks Canada for a new contribution of CAD 3 million (US$2.2 million) to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund for 2024”. With this additional More

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the list of terrorist groups by the Canadian government. “Our government has made the decision to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code,” Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told a news conference. Flanked by Canada’s foreign and justice ministers, he accused the Iranian More

The US Coast Guard has declared five people onboard in the Titan Vessel dead as search operation for the missing vessel concluded, according to a media report on Friday. “The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” said Rear Admiral John Mauger. Officials said that the location of the debris field was More

At least 41 women have been killed after a deadly riot broke out at a women’s prison between gangs in Honduras, media reports said on Wednesday. Authorities found dozens of bodies after the violence on Tuesday at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles (50km) north-west of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, said Yuri Mora, More

Fire has driven Marvin Herman’s family from their home in northwestern Saskatchewan twice in the last month. “We had smoke and fire very close, like it was in the backyard, and that’s how close it was,” said Herman, 67, who lives in La Loche, a village about 500 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon. Herman said he More

Canada will resettle up to 1,000 Afghan nationals who were evacuated from Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul and are currently in the United Arab Emirate (UAE), according to a media report on Saturday. The Government of Canada continues to work with like-minded countries, partners in the region and non-governmental organizations to facilitate the safe More

New Democrats have once again asked the Canadian government to lift restrictions on Canadians providing aid in Afghanistan. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee has adopted a motion from Heather McPherson. The motion urged the government to immediately amend sections of the Criminal Code currently preventing Canadian humanitarian organisations from delivering More