Around 270 whales stranded on sandbar off Australia’s Tasmania
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Marine biologists were planning the rescue of around 270 whales stranded on a sandbar off the remote west coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on Monday. Government scientists said it appeared that at least 25 of the animals, believed to be pilot whales, had already died. Pilot whales are a species of […]
Postcards: Choking on smoke – US cities open clean air shelters for homeless
GREGORY SCRUGGS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Seattle on how communities are grappling with declines in air quality on the US west coast as wildfires rage…
In Uganda, church lockdown is lifted but bans stay on Sunday schools, night prayers
The Ugandan Government has banned Sunday school and night prayers even as it lifted a lockdown imposed on places of worship six months ago to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Updating the nation on COVID-19 on Sunday evening, President Yoweri Museveni said prayers and fellowships would be allowed to resume inside places of worship for […]