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SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/01/16/ottawa-man-trapped-in-congo-back-home Fabien Kalala Shambuyi barely made it through the international arrivals exit before he was swarmed by elated family and friends at the Ottawa Airport Monday evening. The Ottawa man trapped in the Congo since just before Christmas was showered with hugs, kisses, and flowers. An exhausted Shambuyi wants to “be with my […]
MoreAn Ottawa man walked out of a courthouse in the Democratic Republic of Congo a free man Tuesday, only to be told the Canadian government was refusing to release his passport. “I was really shocked,” a frustrated Fabien Kalala Shambuyi told the Sun via telephone from the Congo Tuesday. But a few hours later, a […]
MoreThe Canadian government — not Facebook — should be taking the lead on suicide prevention, says the brother of an Ottawa student who took her own life. “The frustrating part for me is that it’s got to come down to our government officials, our health workers, our police,” said Marc Kajouji, whose sister, Carleton University […]
MoreThe family of a missing Ottawa man is terrified for his safety and is begging the Canadian government to intervene after he vanished last Sunday. “He was either arrested or kidnapped from the Bahrain airport,” a distraught Sadeq Al Raas, 26, said about his brother, Naser Al Raas, 28. A Canadian citizen living in Kuwait, […]
MoreIran is calling on the federal government to probe the Dec. 6 murder of 16-year-old Iranian-Canadian Yazdan Ghiasvand Ghiasi, foreign affairs confirmed Monday. Spokeswoman Laura Markle said Canada’s charge d’affaires spoke to Iranian officials over the weekend. “The charge reassured the Iranian authorities that a criminal investigation is underway and that we deplore any criminal […]
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