Updated: Shooting at Virginia Beach municipal centre in US leaves 12 dead, including suspect
Updated: 11pmVirginia Beach, Virginia, USReuters A disgruntled public utility employee opened fire with a handgun on co-workers at a municipal building in Virginia on Friday afternoon, killing 12 people and wounding at least four before he was fatally shot by police, authorities said. Police evacuate people from a building in this still image taken from […]
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Religious rights advocates welcome new international day to commemorate victims of religiously-motivated violence
Religious rights advocates have welcomed the adoption of a UN resolution establishing a new international day commemorating people who have been victims of religiously motivated violence. The UN this week passed a resolution which established 22nd August as the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. It had […]
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Melting glaciers threaten Asia’s drought buffer, scientists warn
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Countries from India to Kazakhstan are far more dependent on melting glaciers for water than previously thought, particularly in summer droughts, scientists said on Wednesday, warning that rising temperatures were threatening supply. Each summer, the 95,000 glaciers in the mountain region spanning from Kyrgyzstan’s Alai range to the Himalayas produce enough […]
INDIA: ENSLAVED FOR DECADES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FREED BY LAND TITLES
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un carrying out purge after Hanoi summit collapse – Chosun Ilbo
Updated: 2.30pmSeoul, South KoreaReuters North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday. Kim Hyok-chol was executed at Mirim Airport in Pyongyang, along with […]
ESSAY: EIGHTY PER CENT OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION TARGETS CHRISTIANS
In the wake of a UK report which found 80 per cent of religious persecution globally targets Christians, JOCELYN GOTO, host of Open Doors Australia’s live podcast, writes of the faith she’s encountered within the persecuted church…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: BELIEVING THE PROMISE AND FORSAKING FOOLISHNESS, PART II
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Big clothes brands found to fall short of own fair wage promises
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation The world’s top clothing brands are failing to fulfil their own promises to pay workers a fair living wage that covers basic family needs, academics and activists said on Thursday. Most major garment companies lack plans for calculating – let alone achieving – a living wage in their global supply chains, despite […]