The motion picture academy has banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years following his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards. The move comes after a meeting Friday of the academy's board of governors to discuss a response to Smith's actions. The academy in a statement called Smith's actions ``unacceptable and harmful.'' Smith pre-emptively resigned from the academy last week during the run-up to the meeting and said he would accept any punishment the academy handed down. The academy also apologized for its handling of the slap and allowing Smith to

A missile hit a train station where thousands of people had flocked to flee in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities said 50 people died Friday's strike. They also warned they expect to find more evidence of war crimes in areas abandoned by Russian troops. Photos from the scene showed bodies covered with tarps on the ground and the remnants of a rocket with the words ``For the children'' painted on it in Russian. The office of Ukraine's prosecutor-general said about 4,000 civilians were in and around the station. Most were women and children heeding calls to leave the area before Russia launc

The U.N. General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the U.N.'s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which the United States and Ukraine have called tantamount to war crimes. Russia is the second country to have its membership rights stripped at the Human Rights Council, which was established in 2006. In 2011, the assembly suspended Libya when upheaval in the North African country brought down longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. The vote on Thursday was 93-24 with 58 abstentions. Defence Minister Anita Anand says the 93-to

President Joe Biden on Monday called for war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine."You saw what happened in Bucha," Biden said. He added that Putin "is a war criminal" Biden’s comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found. Zelenskyy called the Russian actions "genocide" and called for the West to apply tougher sanctions against Russia.The bodies of 410 civilians

This has been an emotional day for Indigenous Canadians, who have finally received an apology from the Roman Catholic Church for itsrole in the residential school system.Pope Francis made the historic apology at the Vatican, begging forgiveness and telling about 190 Indigenous delegates that he hopes to visit Canada around the Feast of St. Anna, which falls on July 26th.Chief Gerald Antoine says Francis recognized the cultural genocide that was inflicted on Indigenous children, calling today a first step on the path of reconciliation.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says today wouldn't have happe

A Florida man will go on trial July 18th in Minnesota on human smuggling charges after four migrants from India froze to death during a blizzard while trying to walk from Manitoba into the US. Steve Shand is charged with bringing two people into the US illegally and illegally transporting them once in the country. Four bodies were discovered near Emerson, five Indian nationals were found on foot on the Minnesota side of the border and two others were discovered nearby riding in Shand's van. Shand was not charged in the deaths of the migrants.

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith's hair loss is at the center of the most talked-about moment at Sunday's Oscars ceremony. Smith disclosed four years ago that she has alopecia and it's the reason she has shaved her head or worn turbans in public. The autoimmune disease attacks hair follicles. It's unclear if comedian Chris Rock knew about it when he joked about her baldness during the ceremony. But his comment prompted a smack and profane admonishment from Smith's husband, actor Will Smith. The National Institutes of Health says alopecia affects all racial groups, men and women equally. There is no

UNICEF reports more than 4.3-million Ukrainian children have been displaced since Russia launched its invasion on February 24th.That is half of all children in the country.UNICEF says more than 1.8-million children have crossed into neighbouring countries as refugees, 2.5-million are displaced insideUkraine, 78 have died and 105 have been injured.

Bahrain women’s cricket team created a new record in T-20 cricket. Team scored a mammoth total of 318/1 in a T20I match against Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The match was played at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket. It was the seventh match of the GCC Women’s T20I Championship 2022 where the women in red jersey's eclipsed Uganda’s score of 314/2 to climb on top of the record books.Bahrain captain Deepika Rasangika, who scored an unbeaten 161 runs off 66 balls, also got her name in history books after becoming the first batter to score more than 150 runs in a women’s T20I. Chasing a