Kenyan officials try to dispel fears of new ID labeled “mark of the beast”
Nairobi, KenyaRNS In Kenyan churches, the antichrist is a frequent sermon subject, one that often serves to feed controversial end-time conspiracy theories. Those fears of the apocalyptic figure, a seven-headed beast that rises from the sea in the New Testament Book of Revelation, are colliding with a new government effort to assign Kenyans a personal […]
SNAPSHOT: EASTER ISLAND, CHILE
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Next UN food chief must tackle hunger “emergency”
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation As candidates jostle to head the United Nations’ multibillion dollar food agency, experts called on Thursday for a strong leader to tackling rising hunger and climate change threats. Levels of hunger have grown for the past three years, with one in nine people – or 821 million – worldwide without enough to […]
Disbanded by Trump, defiant climate committee moves to aid cities, states
New York, USThomson Reuters Foundation An advisory committee on climate change that was dissolved under US President Donald Trump and then launched anew as an independent entity announced plans on Thursday to begin working with governments nationwide to speed up climate action. Experts with the Science for Climate Action Network will help urban planners better […]
Malaysian human rights commission concludes police responsible for disappearance of pastor and Muslim activist
Malaysia’s human rights commission has concluded that police were behind the “enforced disapperances” of Christian pastor Raymond Koh and Amri Che Mat, a Muslim social activist. The finding – that the two men were “targeted by religious authorities and the police on allegations that they were involved in matters against Islam in Malaysia” – came after […]
BREXIT: HOMELESS EUROPEANS LIVING IN BRITAIN AT RISK OF FURTHER DEPRIVATION
ADELA SULIMAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from London on the uncertain future facing thousands of Europeans living on the streets in the UK…
Australia announces disability inquiry as election looms
SydneyReuters Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in one of the government’s last moves before an imminent election, said on Friday a powerful public inquiry into the country’s disability care would run for three years and address abuse, neglect and exploitation problems in the sector. The Royal Commission will cost $A528 million and follows reports of […]
ESSAY: VENEZUELA’S POWER STRUGGLE REACHES A TENSE STALEMATE, AS HUMAN SUFFERING DEEPENS
In an article first published on The Conversation, DAVID SMILDE, of Tulane University in the US, surveys the situation in Venezuela…