Hunger looms for Colombia’s Venezuelan migrants as aid falls short
Riohacha, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation It is mid-morning and the Rancheria community kitchen in northern Columbia is already full of families queuing for a free meal of pasta with chicken, bread and guava juice. Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants rely on the community kitchen for survival, among them Marbellis Atencia, 39, who comes here every day with […]
ESSAY: US DEATH PENALTY DECISION ANSWERS LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW BARR’S FAITH AFFECTS HIS POLITICS
In an article first published on Religion News Service, US academic and author CHARLES C CAMOSY reflects on US Attorney-General William Barr’s recent announcement that federal executions would resume in the US…
PROSTITUTION: SEWING A WAY OUT OF SEX WORK IN SPAIN
SOPHIE DAVIES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a Catholic-established social enterprise is helping women who have escaped from forced prostitution make a new life…
US Supreme Court lets Trump use disputed funds for border wall
Washington, DC Reuters The US Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $US2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the US-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding. The conservative-majority court on a 5-4 vote with […]
Europe’s record heatwave threatens Greenland ice sheet
Geneva, SwtizerlandReuters The hot air that smashed European weather records this week looks set to move towards Greenland and could cause record melting of the world’s second largest ice sheet, the United Nations said on Friday. Clare Nullis, spokeswoman for the UN World Meteorological Organization, said the hot air moving up from North Africa had […]