Namibian Michelle Nehoya has spent nearly $500 (£390) on the application process for a visa to visit Canada - but almost two years later it has yet to materialise. The 38-year-old, who lives in Namibia's capital, Windhoek, is desperate to get to Quebec to see her aunt and cousins whom she has not seen for almost a decade.

Namibia turns the visa tables on Western nations

Uganda’s hardline President Yoweri Museveni has warned citizens planning anti-corruption protests Tuesday that they are “playing with fire.”

Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests

The Independent

 Sir Keir Starmer’s government is pressing ahead with plans to reset Britain’s global relations and repair the harms of Brexit, announcing a landmark security pact with Germany and the reopening of trade and defence talks with India.Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Delhi to revive negotiations that foundered under the Tories, while Rachel Reeves is heading to Brazil for her first G20 summit as chancellor, and on Wednesday, defence secretary John Healey signed a “joint defence declaration” in Berlin, hailing it as a step towards a “deep new relationship” between Britain and Germany. But critics have warned that the...

Keir Starmer bids to reset Britain on world stage with talks in Germany, India and G20

Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission has warned Slovakia that it will take immediate legal action if the government pushes ahead with a proposed law requiring NGOs that receive funding from abroad to label themselves "organisations with foreign support".

EU warns Slovakia against foreign agent law for NGOs

Business Insider

Estonia has ramped up its defense spending and believes it could hold out for a couple of weeks before reinforcements came, if Russia attacked.

Estonia says it could hold out against a Russian attack 'for a couple of weeks' before NATO arrives

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

 At the graduation ceremony of New York University Abu Dhabi this May, a student wearing the traditional Palestinian black-and-white keffiyeh scarf shouted “Free Palestine!” as he crossed the stage to receive his diploma, witnesses say. Days later, he reportedly was deported from the United Arab Emirates. The incident at the graduation comes as the UAE tries to balance its diplomatic recognition of Israel with the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that's devastated the Gaza Strip. While offering aid to the Palestinians, there have been none of the mass demonstrations that swept the Arab world here in the UAE, a federation of...

University student who yelled ‘Free Palestine’ reportedly deported as UAE weighs Israel-Hamas war

The Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s newly elected president said his government will create “balance in relations with all countries” in line with national interests and the prerequisites for peace but stressed to the United States that his country “will not respond to pressure.”. Masoud Pezeshkian...

Iran’s new president vows balance with all countries but warns US his country won’t be pressured

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People held in Georgia immigrant detention centers will soon face new challenges in their search for lawyers to represent them in immigration court, a development that will likely doom many people’s chances of fighting deportation.

For migrants in Georgia, fighting deportation will become harder. Here’s why.

The prolonged economic and political instability in Venezuela has forced millions of Venezuelans to leave over the past decade, quashing many of their dreams and leaving many wondering if they'll ever return to what was once South America's most prosperous country. The refugee agency UNHCR estimates that more than 7.7...

Forced to emigrate, Venezuelans living abroad hope for change — and to eventually return home

Bucks County Beacon

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025 , a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich.

Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

Gen. Sir Roly Walker said Russia's minimum goal of taking four oblasts would, based on current attrition rates, cost it more than 1.5 million troops.

Russia would lose up to 1.8 million troops and take 5 years to capture the 4 Ukrainian regions it wants: UK army chief

Vice President Kamala Harris said "Israel has a right to defend itself ... and how it does so matters." Harris' remarks followed a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "It is time for this war to end, and end in a way where Israel is secure, all the hostages...

'It is time for this war to end,' Harris tells Netanyahu; 'I will not be silent' on Palestinian suffering

The Guardian

Fifty-three asylum seekers ‘pushed back’ into UN-patrolled buffer zone that bisects the southern European country

Asylum seekers stuck in limbo as Cyprus rebuffs calls to act

BERLIN -- A German court has ruled that there is no longer a general danger to all civilians from the long-running conflict in Syria, rejecting a claim to protected status by a Syrian man who had been convicted in Austria for involvement in smuggling people into Europe. The ruling by...

German court rules in migration case that there's no general danger now to all civilians in Syria

France, Italy and five other EU countries were placed in a formal procedure on Friday for violating the bloc's budget rules, a step that could lead to unprecedented penalties unless they take corrective measures. "Today the Council adopted decisions establishing the existence of excessive deficits for Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary,...

EU reprimands France and six other EU countries for breaking budget rules

Senator Fatima Payman has resigned from Australia's ruling Labor Party, days after voting against it to support a motion on Palestinian statehood. Labor has strict penalties for those who undermine its policy positions, and Ms Payman was already “indefinitely suspended” from the party’s caucus after vowing to do it again.

Australian Senator resigns after Gaza vote backlash

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Death Disclosure Laws and Property Disclosures in North Carolina. In North Carolina, there is no legal obligation for homeowners or real estate agents to disclose if a death has occurred in a home, whether by natural causes, murder, or suicide. However, if a potential buyer directly inquires about any deaths on the property, the seller is required to provide that information.

If someone dies at your house do you have to tell a potential buyer? What North Carolina law says

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The Wyoming Democratic Party is calling on U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman to apologize for calling Vice President Kamala Harris a diversity, equity and inclusion hire. “It took only three days for Harriet Hageman to disgrace herself on national television by launching a reprehensible and racist attack on Vice President Kamala Harris,” the WDP wrote in a statement .

Wyoming Dems demand Hageman apologize for calling Harris a ‘DEI hire’

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Bed bugs aren't supposed to be part of the all-inclusive package on a cruise vacation. A woman is alleging an unsettling experience aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, claiming she and her family were subjected to a bed bug infestation.

"I Paid $2K for a Bed Bug Cruise": Passenger Shares Royal Caribbean Story & Letter from Cruise Line

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UK planned to spend 10 billion pounds on Rwanda asylum scheme, minister says

Britain's previous government had planned to spend 10 billion pounds ($12.9 billion) on a now-scrapped plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda and it has already...

UK planned to spend 10 billion pounds on Rwanda asylum scheme, minister says

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