India will do what it can to get COVID-19 vaccines to Canada, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after receiving a phone call from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, February 10, 2021.
The Biden administration announced this week that the United States will be rejoining the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) an institution that has demonstrated an uncanny bias against Israel since its inception. Since its establishment, the UNHRC has condemned Israel 90 times; whereas Syria, for all its evil transgressions and murder of some 350,000 civilians, has only been condemned 35 times, North Korea 13 times, Iran 10 and Venezuela only.
Myanmar military stages coup; Suu Kyi urges nation to resist
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Myanmarâs military detained Aung San Suu Kyi, declared a state of emergency for a year and voided her partyâs landslide November election victory in a setback for the countryâs nascent democracy.
Army chief Min Aung Hlaingâs office said he took the action in response to alleged voter fraud and the military would hold a âfree and fair general electionâ after the emergency is over. An order by acting President Myint Swe, a former general aligned with the army, granted full authority to the army chief to run the country, saying it was necessary to act before new parliament sessions began this week.
NDP call on Liberals to stop selling light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is criticizing the federal government for selling military vehicles to Saudi Arabia, following U.S. President Joe Biden s announcement Thursday that the United States will end support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
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A Canadian LAV (light armoured vehicle) arrives to escort a convoy at a forward operating base near Panjwaii, Afghanistan at sunrise on Nov.26, 2006. (Bill Graveland/Canadian Press)
Myanmar diaspora in Ottawa shocked and angered by military coup
Members of Canadian Burmese community went down to the Myanmar Embassy in Ottawa Monday afternoon, looking for answers as that country s democratically-elected government fell to a military coup.
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A small group of people from the Burmese diaspora gathered outside the Myanmar embassy in Ottawa Monday to protest against the military coup in that country. (Amanda Pfeffer/CBC)
Toe Kyi went down to the Myanmar embassy in Ottawa Monday afternoon, along with a handful of other members of the diaspora, to condemn the military coup unfolding in that country.