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Russia has canceled the Grain Deal this week, leading to concern. According to multiple sources including the BBC, Russia canceled the deal — which allowed the export of grains through the Black Sea from Ukraine — citing the blackmail of it by the West and Ukraine, along with several other causes. By this time, Russia has also carried out air attacks on grain storage in Ukraine and warned that it would treat ships heading for Ukrainian ports as potential military targets, though its return to the grain agreement is not canceled altogether. Russia’s strikes on storage had destroyed 60,000 tonnes…

Refugees resulting from forced displacement, driven by international wars and civil wars, are often expelled from host countries, leading to concern. According to multiple sources including the BBC, around one hundred refugees fleeing from Burkina Faso to Ghana have been expelled recently. But this is not the only event of refugee expulsion from host countries. Many other host countries expelled forcefully displaced refugees in the past. Syrian refugees —who left Syria because of the devastating civil war—were expelled from Lebanon and several other countries. But the expulsion of forced refugees from host countries that highlights the challenges faced by refugees…

Anti-gang operation in Harrogate, a town in North Yorkshire of Northern England, has recently been carried out amidst the rising gang-related crimes leading to the arrest of several gang criminals and the seizure of drugs. According to multiple sources including the BBC, police in North Yorkshire have recently launched an operation to dismantle a drug gang believed to be behind a new county lines operation to traffic drugs from West Yorkshire. This is a good step against the recent surge in gang crimes — which have prompted authorities to take measures and collaborate with community organizations — and may help…

Atrocities against civilians are rampant in Cameroon. According to multiple sources including the BBC, Amnesty International reports that government forces, separatists and ethnic militia are committing rampant atrocities in Cameroon. Several sorts of atrocities including executions, torture and rape have been committed in the North-West region since 2020. Definitely, the ongoing conflict between government forces and separatist armed groups — familiar as the Anglophone crisis which erupted in 2016 and deepened the divide between the English-speaking regions of Cameroon and the French-speaking majority—has resulted in widespread conflicts and human rights abuses, along with the significant loss of civilian lives and…

The burning of a religious book in Sweden has led to widespread protests and criticisms. According to multiple sources including the BBC, a copy of the Quran — the holy book of Islam — was burned by Salwan Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden, outside Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday. It is definitely not the only incident of burning holy books, a grave violation of religious freedom. Religious books including the Quran and the Bible were burned in many countries in the past many times including several times in the last decade. Burning religious books often lead to tensions and…

The UN peacekeepers are going to be withdrawn at the end of this month from Mali after decades of peace operations in the conflicting country. According to multiple sources including CNN, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali is set to be ended on June 30. The Malian government called for the immediate exit of the UN peacekeepers earlier blaming the mission a failure. It is pertinently notable that the UN keeps its peacekeepers based on the request of a sovereign country. But given that there are continued conflicts in the trouble-hit country, the exit of the peacekeepers…

Gang clashes often take place in Honduras. A deadly gang violence occurred this week in a women’s prison. According to multiple sources including the BBC, one of the gangs locked the rival gang in a prison cell and set fire and clashes subsequently erupted between the rival gangs at the Tamara facility — 20 kilometers from the Honduran capital city Tegucigalpa — leading to the death of around forty women prisoners. This is definitely not the only gang violence. Gang violence in prisons and other places including streets took place frequently. A deadly gang violence took place at the La…

Armed attacks intermittently are carried out in Uganda. According to multiple sources including the BBC, armed attacks were carried out in a school in western Uganda leading to the death of more than forty. The Ugandan officials blamed the Allied Democratic Forces, which operates and carries out armed attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and several other countries including Uganda, for the latest attack. Though the group has not yet acknowledged the claim, it has been carrying out many attacks for years in different areas of Uganda, a landlocked country in eastern Africa, and killed thousands of people. Along…

Wildfire is a frequent occurrence in Canada. Currently, devastating wildfires are there in Canada, the effects of which also reached some areas of the US. According to multiple sources including the BBC, the wildfire started in the western provinces of British Columbia and Alberta but later spread to several eastern regions including Quebec and Ontario. Wildfires have been going on for several weeks without any possibility of ending sooner affecting millions of acres of land, despite the relentless efforts of firefighters. Importantly, wildfires that occur every year have increased in recent decades and bring enormous negative effects including the destruction…

Artificial intelligence — rendered one of the emerging technologies — is crucial in the twenty first century for economies, lives and capabilities. It has definitely enormous positive impacts and will continue to provide many benefits for the world. Artificial intelligence, which has made rapid advances over the last decade or so, reduces human errors, helps make decisions, improves lives and brings many other positive outcomes. AI has already influenced almost all industries. But artificial intelligence has several notable negative outcomes including the loss of certain jobs, a reduction in human emotion and creativity and its infringement on fundamental human rights.…