Hundreds of international graduates staged protests and continued hunger strikes in Calgary, Canada after their post-graduation work permits were refused.
Hundreds of international graduates staged protests and continued hunger strikes in Calgary, Canada after their post-graduation work permits were refused.
More than 50,000 fighters including former rebels from rival camps in South Sudan's civil war were set to be integrated into the country's army in a long-overdue graduation ceremony on Tuesday. Many of the new graduates will carry sticks instead of guns at the ceremony, because of a years-long arms embargo imposed by the UN Security Council.
Intense fighting was raging on Tuesday across the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson occupied by Russia, Kyiv's presidency said, as its troops pressed counter-offensives "in various directions". But much of the attention remained on the counter-offensive in the south.
An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced the former Gaza head of a major US-based aid agency to 12 years in prison for funnelling millions of dollars to Islamist group Hamas. The 12-year sentence was also meant to deter Gazans working in international aid groups from aiding Hamas, according to the court.
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