Updated: US House will start impeachment probe of Trump – Pelosi
Last updated 4.30pm, 15th September, 2019Washington, DC Reuters Democrats in the US House of Representatives plunge into a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Wednesday, a move that could dramatically change the 2020 presidential race. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had for months resisted calls inside her party for Trump’s impeachment, announced her […]
UK court rules Johnson suspended parliament unlawfully, PM defiant
LondonReuters The UK Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down parliament in the run-up to Brexit was unlawful, but a defiant Prime Minister said he disagreed and vowed that Britain would leave the EU by 31st October, come what may. The stinging judgment by all 11 of the court’s sitting […]
Survey finds ‘sextortion’ rife in Latin America, women worst hit
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation One in five people in Latin America and the Caribbean has either direct or indirect experience of officials using their positions of power to demand sexual favours, usually from women, according to a survey published on Monday. “Sextortion” – abuse of power to obtain sexual favours – is prevalent in Latin […]
Religious Americans are overly pessimistic about the family, study finds
RNS Divorce has declined in America. Teen pregnancies are down. The rate of out-of-wedlock births is likely stagnant. But you might never guess that from the views of the most religious people in the United States, because they’re more likely than other Americans to believe that social ills are on the rise. Research findings from the […]
Women and men found to respond differently in disasters
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Women and men caught up in disasters respond differently, with women quick to take shelter or prepare to evacuate, but often struggling to persuade the men in their families to do so, research suggests. Traditional gender roles also emerge after a disaster with women becoming the homemaker while men take charge of finances and […]
Nobel laureate seeks backing for new fund to aid women raped in war
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, called on world leaders meeting in New York this week to back an international fund to help female victims of sexual violence during armed conflict. Mukwege has devoted the past 20 years to helping women raped by armed rebels, treating […]
DROUGHT
Australia is a country renown for its droughts and flooding rains. We like to pride ourselves on our ‘outback image’. PICTURE: Dan Gold/Unsplash So I was shocked when I heard that people had been ringing outback tourist information centres wondering if they should cancel their outback tour. The logic was sound – we the […]
CLIMATE: POOREST PEOPLE GETTING WORLD’S SMALL CHANGE TO COPE WITH CLIMATE CRISIS
MEGAN ROWLING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a new Oxfam report…
A church, a synagogue and a mosque planned together for the Arabian Peninsula
New York City, USRNS When Pope Francis visited the United Arab Emirates last February, he not only became the first pontiff to step foot on the Arabian Peninsula, but he also stood next to the leading religious figure in Sunni Islam and signed a landmark document pledging all believers to work together for the good […]
ESSAY: WHO’S AN EVANGELICAL AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?
US author THOMAS S KIDD, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at what defines an evangelical…