60 million people affected by “extreme weather” in 2018, says UN
Extreme weather affected almost 60 million people in 2018, according to the UN, with at least 10,000 lives lost to disasters in the past year. Figures cited by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction show that floods killed some 2,859 people in 2018 and affected more than 35 million people, including more than 23 […]
Venezuelan migrants surge into Colombia as political crisis deepens
Thomson Reuters Foundation Increasing numbers of Venezuelans are crossing the border into Colombia to escape a worsening political crisis and economic meltdown, aid groups said on Thursday, putting more strain on social services and overcrowded shelters. Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaido, swore himself in as interim head of state on Wednesday, with the support of […]
SNAPSHOT: ULURU, AUSTRALIA
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Is there a ‘circular’ solution to the world’s food problems?
Thomson Reuters Foundation The pesticide exposure, antibiotic resistance, air and water pollution and other factors caused by industrial food production could kill five million people a year by 2050, a new report said. That is four times the number of deaths caused by traffic accidents globally. PICTURE: Scott Warman/Unsplash. Preventing that from happening requires producing […]
US missionary exposed tribe in Brazil to risk of death, government says
Thomson Reuters Foundation An American missionary operating in Brazil has exposed an isolated indigenous tribe to disease and possibly death, the Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department (FUNAI) said on Wednesday. Steve Campbell, an American Christian missionary, entered the area occupied by the Hi-Merimã tribe last month, one of the few dozen tribes in Brazil that […]
MEDIA: FROM THE US BIBLE BELT, EWTN SHAPES WORLD CATHOLIC NEWS
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Former Jakarta Governor ‘Ahok’ released in Indonesia
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the former governor of Jakarta popularly known as ‘Ahok’, has been released from prison in Indonesia. His release on Thursday, which comes three months early, followed the prominent Christian being given a two year jail sentence in 2017 following his conviction on blasphemy charges in May, 2017. The news was welcomed by activists […]
ESSAY: WE’RE AWARDING THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA TO THE WRONG PEOPLE
In an article first published on The Conversation, NICHOLAS GRUEN, adjunct professor in the University of Technology Sydney’s Business School, calls for a rethinking of Australia’s awards system ahead of Australia Day…