Ten killed as storms ravage eastern Japan – NHK
Tokyo, JapanReuters The death toll from torrential rains that caused flooding and mudslides in Japan climbed to 10 on Saturday, with three others missing, public broadcaster NHK reported, just two weeks after the region was hit by a powerful typhoon. Landslides ripped through waterlogged areas in Chiba and Fukushima prefectures, in eastern and northeastern Japan, […]
As climate impacts hit, cities are still struggling to prepare, researchers warn
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation More than two in three cities around the world already are noticing the effects of climate change, from more heatwaves to worsening flooding, but few have effective plans in place to deal with the threats, researchers warned this week. Budget restrictions are a key reason cities say they are failing to act, […]
In San Fernando Valley in the US, people of faith march together to signal solidarity
Los Angeles, USRNS The Interfaith Solidarity Network in the San Fernando Valley is holding its third annual unity march on Sunday, just weeks after a Northridge synagogue was struck with vandalism. “We are naturally feeling violated and concerned,” said Cantor Ken Cohen with Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge. People participate in the Interfaith Solidarity Network’s […]
Four million slum dwellers in Delhi to win property rights
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Almost 2,000 informal settlements in Delhi are set to be legalised under a new law agreed by the government this week, which ministers said would give more than four million residents the right to own their homes in India’s capital. India’s cabinet this week passed a bill to regularise 1,797 unauthorised […]
EX-PRISONERS: FROM CELL TO WHERE? NEW US FOCUS ON HOME POST-PRISON
CAREY L BIRON, reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation, on some innovative programs in the US aimed at helping ex-prisoners after they’ve been released…
Vietnamese may be among UK truck dead as police make three more arrests
Grays, UKReuters Police investigating the deaths of 39 people in a truck near London said they had arrested three more suspects on Friday on suspicion of human trafficking amid signs that some of the dead may be Vietnamese. As forensic experts began the process of identifying the victims, the Vietnamese embassy in London said families […]