LIFESTORY: SORROW AND TRIUMPH – AN AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR’S JOURNEY BACK TO A FORMER HELL
MAAYAN LUBELL, of Reuters, speaks with Holocaust survivor Jona Laks as she returns to the notorious Nazi death camp…
Tree planting extends an olive branch across the climate divide
New York CityThomson Reuters Foundation The world’s business and government leaders may have found a way to fight climate change without having to call global warming by its name or agree on what is causing it. Last week, the World Economic Forum – which dedicated its 2020 gathering in Davos, Switzerland, to climate change and […]
Europe’s Catholic bishops concerned ahead of 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Budapest, Hungary/Warsaw, PolandBosNewsLife Europe’s Catholic bishops are marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in then occupied Poland with a warning about ongoing hatred towards Jewish people. In a statement, the bishops condemned anti-Semitism and what they called the “manipulation” of the truth for political aims. Saturday’s published remarks reflect […]
Defence at Senate trial says ousting Trump would be “massive interference” in election
Washington DC, USReuters Lawyers for US President Donald Trump told his Senate impeachment trial on Saturday that Democrats’ efforts to remove the president from office would set a “very, very dangerous” precedent in an election year. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, the head of the defence team, told senators they would be denying voters their […]
More than 2,000 now infected with coronavirus; 56 dead in China
Shanghai, ChinaReuters More than 2,000 people globally have been infected with a new coronavirus, the vast majority of them in China, where 56 people have died from the disease, according to figures released on Sunday. President Xi Jinping said during a politburo meeting on Saturday that China was facing a “grave situation”, as health authorities […]
HOUSING: DOOR-KNOCKING NEIGHBOURS HELP AVERT HOME SEIZURES IN THE US CITY OF DETROIT
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the success of Detroit’s Neighbor to Neighbor initiative…