Iran airs televised confession of wrestler after Trump tweet
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAP Iran, which has a history of broadcasting suspected forced confessions, aired a statement by a wrestler who faces the death penalty and whose case recently drew a critical tweet from President Donald Trump. The television segment and authorities accuse Navid Afkari, 27, of stabbing a water supply company employee in the […]
Pope: Gossiping is “plague worse than COVID”
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis said Sunday that gossiping is a “plague worse than COVID” that is seeking to divide the Catholic Church. Francis strayed from his prepared text to double down on his frequent complaint about gossiping within church communities and even within the Vatican bureaucracy. Francis didn’t give specifics during his weekly blessing, but […]
Virus-idled Indian workers dig into a new job: boosting water security
Sagar, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Basant Ahirwar worked as an expert mason in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state before the country’s coronavirus lockdown shut down business and forced him to return, jobless and largely on foot, to his home in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state. Now, however, he has found new work: Digging water capture pits […]
Pandemic review panel to ask “hard questions”, WHO files open, co-chairs say
Geneva, Switzerland/London, UKReuters An independent panel reviewing the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic will ask “hard questions” and has been assured of access to the records of the World Health Organization, its co-chairs said last week. Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf named the 11 members […]
Green on-trend: Top fashion and food firms test ways to nurture nature
MEGAN ROWLING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a growing number of businesses are looking to limit their harm to the environment…
Pope set to make first trip since pandemic to saint’s town
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis is next month set to make what would be his first visit outside Rome since Italy was put under lockdown in early March when it became the first country in Europe to feel the full brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. The Pope is to journey to Assisi, the birthplace in the […]