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June marks Deafblind Awareness Month, highlighting the experiences of those who are deafblind. Ryan Riehl, a deafblind artist, emphasises the need for greater visibility, stating, “it’s important that everybody knows that we’re out there.” The month aims to foster understanding and support for this community.

Georgia sees its fifth night of consecutive protests against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union. At a press conference with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Jolie expressed Canada’s solidarity with the Georgian people, and said they “are very concerned about what Russia is trying to do in Georgia.”

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