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Raqqa, once the home base of ISIS, still traumatized as it tries to resume normal life
Three years after Raqqa's liberation from Islamist militants by Syrian Kurdish forces and 10 years after the start of the Syrian civil war, the city that was once the home base for ISIS is struggling to come back to life.
CBC IN SYRIA
Canada shirking responsibility for families of ISIS militants in detention camps: Syrian Kurdish official
Kurdish authorities responsible for the prisons and detention camps holding ISIS militants and their family members in northern Syria have accused Canada of shirking its responsibility by failing to bring Canadian women and children home, despite offers of assistance.
CBC in Syria
Canadian mothers in ISIS detention camp fear their children are being judged on the actions of their parents
Canadian women being held in detention with families of ISIS militants in Syria fear that their children are now bound to their own fate and have little hope for life beyond the confines of the camp.
With 110K dead, U.K. government hopes vaccine rollout will redeem pandemic failures
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently said he takes full responsibility for the government's response to COVID-19. That includes a formidable vaccination effort, but also failing to establish a "world-beating" test and trace system and often resisting the advice of health experts, writes Margaret Evans.
Under house arrest after contested election, Uganda's Bobi Wine still hopes to inspire country's youth
Two days after Uganda’s electoral commission announced that President Yoweri Museveni had decisively won last week’s ballot, challenger Bobi Wine and his wife remained under house arrest just north of the capital, Kampala.
COVID-19 didn't overwhelm Africa as some feared. But Uganda is a cautionary tale of rising risk
Uganda has managed to avoid the deadliest impacts of COVID-19 relatively well so far. But doctors say it wouldn’t take much of a spike to overwhelm the country’s hospitals, which have only 55 functional intensive care beds for 42 million people.
Women in Egypt thronging to social media to reveal sexual assaults, hold abusers to account
In Cairo, secrets long suppressed have been rising to the surface — and with them hopes the country may be experiencing a feminist movement capable of challenging the culture of impunity that has long accompanied gender-based violence in Egypt.
Amid unprecedented economic crisis, many Lebanese despair
Lebanon is hurting. And this time, say many Lebanese, who are no strangers to fortunes reversed, it's different.
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Former Israeli foreign minister calls on Netanyahu to abandon West Bank annexation plan
The former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni has added her voice to those calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, saying it would close the door on peace with the Palestinians and threaten the idea of Israel as a Jewish democratic state.
Plight of the pangolin: Once coveted, now feared because of coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic may actually help conservation efforts to protect pangolins, but other endangered species aren't as lucky. A decline in Africa's tourism of late has contributed to a rise in hunting and poaching.