India heatwave deaths rise to 36, poorest workers worst hit
Mumbai/Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A heatwave gripping India has killed 36 people with the poorest workers bearing the brunt, national disaster management officials said on Wednesday, warning that the record temperatures were impacting more states than in previous years. India’s capital Delhi recorded its highest-ever temperature of 48 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, while Churu in […]
BOOKS: THE 500 YEAR JOURNEY OF A LANDMARK BIBLE
DAVID ADAMS reads ‘The Lost Gutenberg’…
With flowers and personal stories, Japan sexual abuse survivors seek reform
LondonReuters Sexual abuse victims and their supporters rallied in nine cities around Japan this week to protest against recent court acquittals of alleged rapists and urge reform of the nation’s anti-rape law. Holding flowers and placards with slogans such as “#MeToo, #WithYou”, sexual abuse survivors on Tuesday evening recounted their experiences to show the need […]
STRANGESIGHTS: BABIES CRAWL TO VICTORY; SAFE-CRACKING 101; AND, USE A FLIP-PHONE TO RECEIVE $US1,000…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Lebanon sees migrant domestic workers as “less than human” – filmmaker
BeirutThomson Reuters Foundation Migrant domestic workers are seen as less than human in Lebanon, the director of a new film that exposes widespread abuse of such women said ahead of a screening in Beirut on Tuesday. Shouting Without a Listener follows three Ethiopian women who arrive in Beirut to work as live-in housekeepers under Lebanon’s […]
You may be eating a credit card’s worth of plastic each week – study
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, a study commissioned by the environmental charity WWF International said on Wednesday. A plastic bottle is seen floating in an Adriatic sea of the island Mljet, Croatia, on 30th […]
A year after Singapore, little change seen in US-North Korea ties – poll
Seoul, South KoreaReuters A year after the first US-North Korea summit, most people in countries with a stake in the process think relations between the old rivals have not improved significantly, highlighting a stalemate in their nuclear talks, a poll shows. US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Singapore on […]
WATER: RESIDENTS BATTLING TO SURVIVE AS ABIDJAN GROWS DRIER
PETER YEUNG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the Ivory Coast…
US Catholic bishops open meeting to criticism, discussion of Reddit
Baltimore, USRNS This week’s meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore was touted as a chance for clerics to beat back the perception that they are out of touch with parishioners who see them as ineffective at dealing with the abuse crisis. That goal seemed a long way off as the conference […]
ESSAY: IN MY CHURCH, SOME OF US VOTED FOR US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. ALL OF US PRAY FOR HIM
US Anglican priest and author TISH HARRISON WARREN on why praying for political leaders is important, regardless of who they are…