Whistleblower complaint describes White House cover-up on Trump-Ukraine scandal
Washington, DCReuters A whistleblower report released on Thursday said President Donald Trump not only abused his office in attempting to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 US election for his political benefit, but that the White House tried to “lock down” evidence about that conduct. In a report released by a Democratic-led congressional committee, the […]
Asylum seeker’s daughter faces deportation from Britain despite FGM risk
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation A British court said on Wednesday it had no power to stop the deportation of a 10-year-old girl at risk of female genital mutilation after authorities rejected her mother’s asylum application. The girl’s mother, who travelled to Britain from Bahrain and would be sent back there if deported, had expressed fears that […]
Walk the talk: Cities urged to study footpaths for better land use
Washington, DCThomson Reuters Foundation Mapping informal footpaths could help city planners tackle a range of urban issues stemming from depopulation and vacant land, researchers said on Wednesday. At the beginning of the decade, the northern US city of Detroit had more than 5,680 informal paths, many of them in lower-income neighbourhoods, according to a study […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘THE GOLDFINCH’, A PROFOUND ALLEGORY OF TRAGEDY, SERENDIPITY AND, ULTIMATELY, FREEDOM
MARCUS CHEONG watches ‘The Goldfinch’…
STRANGESIGHTS: ONLY A FEW DOZEN RESPOND TO AREA 51 “STORM” CALL; A LONG-LOST ARTWORK SURFACES IN KITCHEN; AND, “PYRAMIDS OF SHAME” FOR BILL DEFAULTERS
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
US congressional hearing on travel ban highlights impact of muddled waiver process
RNS Ismail Alghazali has never met his five-month-old daughter. “I live in darkness, and my family is my only light,” said Alghazali, a Yemeni American who works at a Brooklyn bodega and has not seen his wife and two young children in more than a year. A House Committee on the Judiciary‚ Subcommittee on […]
Plenty more fish in the sea? Not for the poor and hungry, researchers say
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation Swapping fish for meat to help combat climate change risks exacerbating hunger in Africa, from where fish is increasingly exported to wealthy nations instead of providing key vitamins to malnourished local people, experts warned on Wednesday. Some consumers in rich countries are shunning meat in favour of other forms of protein, including […]
Anti-FGM campaigner Nimco Ali launches global bid to protect girls
New York, USThomson Reuters Foundation Every country must ban female genital mutilation to protect girls and help end poverty, Somali-born British campaigner Nimco Ali said as she launched a global project to end the practice by 2030. About 3.9 million girls have their external genitalia partially or totally removed every year despite health risks, according […]
TRAFFICKING: NUNS AIM TO BE DISCIPLES OF HOPE IN CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports from Vatican City…
Protect coastal, island communities now as seas rise, scientists urge
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Melting of the world’s glaciers and warming of its oceans are fuelling rising seas, fiercer storms, worsening water shortages and other risks that could force millions from their homes or leave them hungrier and poorer, scientists warned on Wednesday. Some of the threat could be averted both by rapidly slashing climate-heating emissions […]