A defaced statue of Queen Victoria lies after being toppled during a rally, following the discovery of the remains of hundreds of children at former indigenous residential schools, outside the provincial legislature on Canada Day in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon VanRaes Protesters have toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani (R) meets General Austin “Scott” Miller, commander of U.S. forces and NATO’s Resolute Support Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan July 2, 2021. Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS By Reuters American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, leaving behind a piece of the World Trade Center they buried

People take part in a tribute march to the Mohawk Institute residential school, organized by Brantford Regional Indigenous Support Centre, for children who lost their lives while staying in residential schools, on July 01, 2021 in Branford, Ontario, Canada. ( Seyit Aydoğan – Anadolu Agency ) By Barry Ellsworth Sea of orange shirts marks sympathy

Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam is seen as it undergoes construction work on the river Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo By Michelle Nichols The United Nations Security Council will likely meet next week to discuss a dispute between Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt over a giant dam built

Passengers walk next to the statue of Alula Aba Nega, Ethiopian general from Tigray, after flights to Addis Ababa was cancelled at Mekelle airport in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 25, 2021. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP By Aggrey Mutambo The US Federal Aviation Authority has directed aircraft flying over Ethiopia to either avoid

Britain’s Prince William, left and Prince Harry unveil a statue they commissioned of their mother Princess Diana, on what woud have been her 60th birthday, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London, Thursday July 1, 2021. (Dominic Lipinski /Pool Photo via AP) LONDON (AP) — Princes William and Harry unveiled a statue of their

By Barry Ellsworth Another 182 graves revealed at St. Eugene’s Mission in British Columbia As Canada prepares to commemorate its birth as a nation on July 1, it will be a bleak anniversary overshadowed by the chilling news that there are 1,148 unmarked graves discovered at the sites of three former Indian residential schools. In

File – In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse, in Norristown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction. The court said Wednesday that they found an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the

Credit Associated Press Photo Ben Curtis/Fighters loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) greet each other on the street in the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, By Giulia Paravicini Maggie Fick Tigray capital under full control of TPLF, spokesman says Government forces being pursued No

File – In this file photo dated Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, an anti-Brexit campaigner waves European Union and British Union flags outside Parliament in London. Millions of Europeans who have freely lived, worked and studied in the U.K. for decades, now have to apply to stay under the “settlement” plan, but the deadline for applications