Diasporas

A handful of Quebec deputies newly elected in provincial elections refused Wednesday to pledge allegiance to King Charles III, head of state of Canada, as required by the Constitution. Eleven members of the Quebec Solidaire (QS) party (left) took the oath in a speech broadcast on television “towards the people …

Madagascar’s president has sacked his foreign minister, Richard Randriamandrato, for voting at the United Nations to condemn Russia’s annexation of four partially occupied regions of Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing two sources in the president’s office. Last Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn what it called Russia’s …

The number of cholera contaminations continues to increase in Haiti, according to a new bulletin from the Ministry of Public Health obtained on Tuesday. The new figures fuel fears of a new disaster in this country already plunged into a humanitarian and security crisis. As of Monday, 606 suspected and …

A fight between Nigerian and Indian students at GD Goenka University in the capital, New Delhi, sparked by a football match last weekend has caused panic in Nigeria. The incident forced more than 60 Nigerians to flee and take refuge at the country’s embassy. The chairwoman of the Nigerians in …

George Floyd’s family is considering legal action after “Kanye West’s misrepresentation of the cause of his death,” as human rights lawyer Lee Merritt tweeted on Sunday. “Pretending that Floyd died of fentanyl and not brutality, established criminally and civilly, undermines and belittles the fight of the Floyd family,” he wrote. …

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Sunday pledged to invest $1.2 billion to help eradicate polio from the planet once and for all, at an international health conference in Berlin. “The eradication of polio is within reach. But the disease remains a threat (…)”, estimated Bill Gates, co-president of …

Ninety-two refugees were found naked after being forced, according to Athens, to cross the Evros river separating Turkey from Greece. The European border surveillance agency Frontex confirmed to AFP “the rescue of 92 migrants on Friday” with the help of the Greek authorities, according to a spokeswoman, Paulina Bakula. “The …

Rap queen Nicki Minaj answered a question during an Instagram live about the likelihood of traveling to Ghana to work with a Ghanaian artist on a project. “I would love to come to Ghana. I may be doing something major, a business type of situation, with an artist from Ghana,” …

World’s richest man Elon Musk said his company Starlink will no longer pay to provide internet services in Ukraine, asking the US government to fund the cost of the satellite internet connection system in Ukraine. For several months, Elon Musk’s space company, which provides the Starlink satellite Internet system, has …

Indian conservation authorities on Thursday captured a tiger blamed in the deaths of 13 people, an official said. The five-year-old male, dubbed “Conflict Tiger” or “CT-1”, was tranquilized and captured nearly a week after authorities agreed he posed a threat to humans, authorizing his capture. The big cat has been …