SNAPSHOT: CHICAGO, US
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Updated: Israel Folau sacked by Rugby Australia over social media post
Updated: 8:30am, 18th MaySydneyReuters Five weeks after they first committed to sacking Israel Folau, Rugby Australia finally terminated the Wallabies fullback’s contract on Friday on the recommendation of a disciplinary panel that decided he had breached their rules on inclusion. The protracted saga was sparked by Folau’s Instagram post on 10th April that said hell […]
Uganda shakes up electricity access amid global infrastructure reset
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Electricity providers in Uganda are teaming up to find a new business model to boost the speed and efficiency of getting power to those living without it, in the hope it can be copied in other parts of Africa and Asia, project backers said this week. About one billion people worldwide […]
Stop soil erosion now or face starvation soon, scientists warn
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation The world’s food production is in jeopardy because the fertile layer of soil that people depend on to plant crops is being eroded by human activities, scientists said on Wednesday. Climate change is likely to make it worse even as demand from a grown population is soaring, they said. A Kenyan Maasai […]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: VATICAN, CATHOLIC COLLEGES WEIGH IN ON EMERGING ETHICS DEBATE
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports…
Australian churches confront domestic and family violence
Via World Council of Churches In January, 2019, Aya Maasarwe, a university exchange student in Melbourne, was walking home at night and speaking to her sister on her phone. She was attacked, raped and murdered. The public outcry intensified a national debate about violence against women in Australia following several high-profile murders in the country. […]
ESSAY: “THE GOLDEN BOWL IS BROKEN” – TRIBUTES TO AUSTRALIA’S BELOVED LARRIKIN LEADER
In an article first published on The Conversation, political commentator MICHELLE GRATTAN looks at reactions to the death of former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke who passed away on Thurday at the age of 89…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: THE INTEGRITY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, PART II
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his examination of what Paul says about right-standing in God…
Mass texting and 50,000 volunteers – how India moved a million people to safety
New Delhi Thomson Reuters Foundation From mass texting to mobilising 50,000 volunteers, the Indian official who masterminded the evacuation of more than a million people revealed on Thursday how they were moved from the path of a deadly cyclone. The state of Odisha on India’s east coast has won global praise for the speed and […]