Russia to evacuate citizens from China as virus toll rises
Shanghai, ChinaReuters China faced mounting isolation from international travel curbs and flight suspensions on Saturday, with Russia to start pulling out its citizens next week, as the death toll from a spreading coronavirus outbreak rose to 259. The epidemic has led to mass evacuations of foreign citizens as world airlines halt flights, and risks exacerbating […]
Updated: US Senate votes against calling witnesses in Trump trial, clearing way for acquittal
Updated: 6pmWashington DC, US Reuters The US Senate voted on Friday against calling witnesses and collecting new evidence in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, clearing the way for Trump’s almost certain acquittal next week. By a vote of 51-49, the Republican-controlled Senate stopped Democrats’ drive to hear testimony from witnesses like former national security adviser […]
Rachael Denhollander: Christian colleges key in declaring sex abuse is ‘evil’
Washington DC, USRNS Abuse survivor and activist Rachael Denhollander brought her advocacy to presidents of evangelical colleges, urging them at their annual conference to not discount sexual abuse but to instead support survivors who report it. “As Christian institutions you are the most equipped to condemn sexual abuse and objectification,” she told dozens of attendees […]
Ugandan medics deploy AI to stop women dying after childbirth
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Ugandan doctors are giving new mothers artificial intelligence-enabled devices to remotely monitor their health in a first-of-its-kind study aiming to curb thousands of preventable maternal deaths across Africa, medics and developers said. Doctors at Mbarara Hospital in western Uganda will give devices to more than 1,000 women who have undergone caesarean […]
STOLEN AND SOLD: ARMENIA PROBES BABIES LOST TO EUROPE
NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and UMBERTO BACCHI report for Thomson Reuters Foundation on an illegal adoption scandal in Armenia…
French cardinal is acquitted of sex abuse coverup as country faces its own legacy of paedophilia
Vatican CityRNS The French appeals court has acquitted Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon of charges that he failed to report sexual abuse cases. In 2017, Barbarin was charged and later convicted for not reporting the abuse of a minor, which resulted in a six-month prison sentence. His was the most high-profile case of a member of the […]