For years, Ahmed imagined returning to Pakistan after finishing his university studies in Canada. Now in his mid-twenties, Ahmed arrived in the Maritimes five years ago as an international student. He planned to eventually build a life back home, close to family. Maybe start a business with the skills he’d acquired in North America. Then, for the first time in his life, Ahmed fell in love with another man. But as he faced the reality that he’d have to go back home and enter into an arranged marriage, the two separated. “It was six months of physical pain,” Ahmed said…

The Spanish government is seeking to contain a scandal linked to EU pandemic funds, categorically denying that it used European money to pay pensions, as member states prepare for tough budget talks amid deep divisions over how funding should be allocated. An official in Madrid with direct knowledge of how…

The United States-Israel war on Iran has disrupted global supplies of energy, fertilisers, medicines and even helium, devastating economies around the world.Now it’s also threatening whales off the coast of South Africa.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFighting involving the Houthis had already turned vessels away from the Red…

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