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Report: Assad Regime Made Tens of Thousands ‘Disappear’

A new report from Amnesty International charges the Assad regime with making over 65,000 Syrians ‘disappear’ during four years of civil war, an “organized attack against the civilian population” carried out not just for political gain, but for profit.

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EU Nationals Face Fingerprinting And Face Scans Under French Proposals

French authorities want new European Union (EU) rules mandating all travelling EU nationals to scan their fingerprints and maybe even their faces. The introduction of Smart Borders, a digital dragnet system using biometric scans to identify visiting non-EU nationals, was discussed at an EU interior ministers

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Canada’s Left Pressures Conservatives to Take In More Migrants

Following the viral spread of images depicting the bodies of drowned Syrians on a Turkish beach–including a three-year-old boy named Alan Kurdi–the Canadian left has sprung to attention to decry what they describe as the Conservative government’s inaction towards assisting migrants and war refugees.