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VIRTUAL GOLDMINE: IN-GAME GOODS FUEL DEBATE OVER DIGITAL OWNERSHIP

VIRTUAL GOLDMINE: IN-GAME GOODS FUEL DEBATE OVER DIGITAL OWNERSHIP

SONIA ELKS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at the emerging area of digital property rights...

EGYPT: COPTIC COMMUNITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRESTED AMID HEIGHTENED SURVEILLANCE MEASURES

EGYPT: COPTIC COMMUNITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRESTED AMID HEIGHTENED SURVEILLANCE MEASURES

MINA NADER and JACOB WIRTSCHAFTER, of Religion News Service, report...

CLIMATE CHANGE: AS CROPS ARE AFFECTED, DEBATE HEATS UP OVER USE OF PLANT GENE DATA

CLIMATE CHANGE: AS CROPS ARE AFFECTED, DEBATE HEATS UP OVER USE OF PLANT GENE DATA

THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the growing debate over the use of plant gene data to combat the impacts of climate change...

MOBILE PHONE WARNINGS SET TO AID CLIMATE-VULNERABLE SOMALI NOMADS

MOBILE PHONE WARNINGS SET TO AID CLIMATE-VULNERABLE SOMALI NOMADS

ROSA FURNEAUX, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a new initiative to help Somalis when disaster strikes...

'A SLY THIEF': RISING HEAT STEALS JOBS AND LIVES IN EASTERN INDIA

'A SLY THIEF': RISING HEAT STEALS JOBS AND LIVES IN EASTERN INDIA

MANIPADMA JENA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at how rising heat is changing lives in the Indian state of Orisha...

The Statistic

10th December, 2019
Estimated number of people who have died, in addition to the 3,000 instantly killed, as a result of conditions related to the Union Carbide factory explosion in Bhopal, India, on 2nd December, 1984: 20,000
Source: The Guardian

 

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Moments

10th December, 2019
BANNED: Russia, from competing in the 2020 Olympics and 2022 soccer World Cup following a ruling from the World Anti-Doping Agency executive committee. It concluded Moscow had tampered with evidence that could have helped identify drug cheats.
CHOSEN: Sanna Marin, Finland's Transport and Communications Minister, as the country's next Prime Minister following the resignation of Antti Rinne - at just 34, she will become the world's youngest serving prime minister.
CLAIMED: That Uighur detainees in China have now "graduated" and have the "freedom to come and go" from camps in the north-west province of Xinjiang, according to the territory's Governor.

 

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In an article first published in  Sightings , WILLIAM SCHWEIKER, Edward L Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, asks whether the US is experiencing the opposite of a 'Great Awakening'...

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US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that despite her moves to impeach President Donald Trump, Pelosi says she doesn't hate him but instead says her Catholic faith teaches her to pray for him even if they disagree...

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In an article first published on The Conversation, UK academics MICHAEL PRICE and VICTOR HARLOW look at why the "historic institution" of almshouses are re-emerging in the UK...

They Said It

"Their rights are being violated across the world and they are also among the ones being hit the most and the quickest by the climate and environmental emergency."
- Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, speaking with regard to the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities, at the UN Climate Summit in Madrid (as quoted on Reuters).

 

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This Week on the Web

10th December, 2019
Palestinians in Bethlehem have long watched tourists arrive in their thousands to spend a few hours at the site where Christ was believed to have been born. But, AP reporters MOHAMMAD DARAGHMEH and JOSEPH KRAUSS, find that recent years have seen a new form of tourism take root, one which is focused on the West Bank town's Palestinian residents, their culture and history and their struggles under Israeli occupation...

 

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The Word Explained

30th November, 2019
Apostolic See: The Catholic Church founded by Peter in Rome.

 

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As we're starting late, for our next book - until mid-January, 2020 - we're reading Eric T Eichinger and Eva Marie Everson's biography, The Final Race: The Incredible World War II Story of the Olympian Who Inspired Chariots of Fire.

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