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U.S. to evacuate Afghan interpreters before military withdrawal complete -officials
The United States is set to evacuate thousands of vulnerable Afghan interpreters before the U.S. military completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan so they can wrap up their visa applications from safety, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The evacuation of the at-risk Afghans will include their family members for a total of as many as 50,000 people, a senior Republican lawmaker told Reuters.
Hundreds more unmarked graves found at erstwhile Canadian residential school
An indigenous group in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Thursday said it had found the unmarked graves of an estimated 751 people at a now-defunct Catholic residential school, just weeks after a similar, smaller discovery rocked the country. The latest discovery, the biggest to date, is a grim reminder of the years of abuse and discrimination indigenous communities have suffered in Canada even as
BRUSSELS European Union leaders clashed with Hungary s prime minister during a heated summit Thursday over new legislation in his country that will ban showing content about LGBTQ2S+ issues to children, a measure that has been widely criticized across the region and has angered human rights groups. A majority of the leaders insisted that discrimination must not be tolerated in the 27-nation bloc and told Viktor Orban that the new Hungarian law goes against the EU s fundamental values. Being homosexual is not a choice; being homophobic is, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told Orban during the meeting, according to a EU diplomat. The person spoke anonymously according to usual practice.
Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron had suggested inviting the Russian president for talks. Leaders have though agreed new funding for the migration pact with Turkey.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders confronted Hungary’s prime minister during a heated summit Thursday over new legislation in his country that will ban showing content about LGBT issues to