COVID-19 will push middle income countries into hunger, says Oxfam
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation More people will die of hunger caused by the pandemic than of coronavirus this year, according to The Hunger Virus, a report from Oxfam. Poor countries like war-torn Yemen are at risk but the global aid charity also identified several middle-income countries as new epicentres of hunger where millions could be pushed to […]
Snapshot: Rainbow Mountain, Cusco, Peru
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Soundbite – The TCM Update: US Christian country singer Charlie Daniels dies
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Racial slur, ‘The Idiot’s Guide to Kama Sutra’ led to chaplain’s firing, says Wheaton College
Chicago, USRNS Rev Tim Blackmon allegedly referred to a colleague repeatedly by a racial slur and had The Idiot’s Guide to Kama Sutra left on a female colleague’s desk while he was chaplain at Wheaton College. Those are among the allegations that led to Blackmon’s firing late last month, according to a statement Wheaton provided to […]
Australia to halve numbers of returning citizens as virus surges
Sydney/Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia will halve the number of citizens allowed to return home from overseas each week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, as authorities struggle to contain a COVID-19 outbreak in the country’s second most populous state. Since March, Australia has allowed only citizens and permanent residents to enter the country. Once they […]
“It’s going to happen again,” says former New Zealand PM Clark tasked with WHO COVID-19 review
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand’s former Prime Minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained “flat-footed” in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and political crisis, after she was appointed by the World Health Organization to lead a review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO announced late on Thursday […]
Living landmark: Washington DC’s ‘Church of Presidents’ etched in history again
Famous in recent times as a setting for a Donald Trump photo op, ELANA SCHOR, of Associated Press, looks at the role Washington’s St John’s Episcopal Church has played in the US story…
Scarcity of shade hurts Indian street vendors’ income, health
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Street vendors in India are suffering from lower earnings and ill health as they lose access to shade in cities where trees are felled to make way for construction, researchers said on Thursday. As deadly heatwaves become more frequent in tropical countries such as India, loss of shade can severely affect […]
Essay: Srebrenica, 25 years later – lessons from the massacre that ended the Bosnian conflict and unmasked a genocide
In an article first published on The Conversation, US history professor TOM MOCKAITIS says the criminal indictments that followed the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica in 1995 show why the perpetrators of wartime atrocities must be held accountable…
My Mission: Bringing comfort, hope and love to those behind bars
Australian SANDRA BARKER talks about her role serving as a prison chaplain in Queensland…