New taskforces to tackle “missing wombs” scandal in rural India
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Special taskforces have been established in India to help stop women from being duped by doctors into having unnecessary hysterectomies that cause debt bondage and enslave families, the country’s health ministry said. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in three Indian states, published in May, found that families were taking big loans for […]
Churches join “cries” for remedy to US gun violence
The World Council of Churches has joined “the urgent cries of churches and church people for real remedies to the gun violence” in the US in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend which have left some 29 people dead and dozens injured. Twenty people were killed and dozens more injured when a […]
Walmart massacre in Texas probed as domestic terror case; shooting in Ohio kills nine
El Paso, Texas, USReuters US authorities investigating what drove a young gunman from the Dallas area to kill 20 people at a Walmart store hundreds of miles away in the border city of El Paso said on Sunday they are treating it as a case of domestic terrorism. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Saturday’s rampage […]
Europe’s July heatwave ‘extremely unlikely’ without climate change – scientists
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Global warming turbo-charged July’s record-breaking heatwave in Europe by 1.5 to three degrees Celsius, scientists said on Friday, adding that the intensity in some countries would have been “extremely unlikely” without climate change. The heatwaves in France and the Netherlands last month would have had a chance of happening only once […]
Travel yes, marry no – What Saudi women still can’t do
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation From driving to travelling abroad, Saudi women have been granted new freedoms in recent years, as the Islamic kingdom eases restrictions seen by rights activists as repressive. On Friday, Saudi Arabia allowed women to travel without permission, further eroding a heavily criticised guardianship system under which all women are assigned a […]
US withdraws from Soviet-era nuclear missile accord with Russia
Washington, DC/MoscowReuters The United States formally withdrew from a landmark 1987 nuclear missile pact with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was violating the treaty, an accusation the Kremlin has denied. Washington signaled it would pull out of the arms control treaty six months ago unless Moscow stuck to the accord. Russia called the […]
Gunman kills 20, wounds 26 at Walmart store in El Paso, Texas
El Paso, Texas, USReuters A man armed with a rifle opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 26 others as panicked shoppers and employees scurried for cover before the gunman surrendered to police at the scene. Many shoppers in the busy store were buying back-to-school […]
PIGS FOR PEACE: WINDING BACK FROM WAR IN COLOMBIA
THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how peace is being settled in the conflict-torn South American nation…