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Last Sunday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would recognize Palestinian statehood. In recent weeks, Canada, Australia, Portugal, the U.K. and France have joined the ranks of a ...

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Since 2023, youth as young as 13 have been held in solitary confinement units for weeks or months inside the county’s juvenile detention center.