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UN refugee chief says reducing refugee targets is wise if it prevents backlash

UN refugee chief says reducing refugee targets is wise if it prevents backlash

Nov 5, 2024 | 9:06am
Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, met with the prime minister in Ottawa on Monday. His visit comes a little more than a week after the federal government announced plans to cut overall immigration levels by 20 per cent for 2025 — a cut that includes refugees and protected persons. The move has drawn condemnation […]

Ship heads to Ukraine to get grain for food-starved Africa

Aug 12, 2022 | 9:13am

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war on Ukraine and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation. For months, […]

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