Belgium seeks to ease virus rules on religious services
Brussels, BelgiumAP Belgium’s government is under pressure to change its restrictive rules on religious services during the coronavirus crisis after the country’s highest court said the measures impede constitutional conditions on freedom of religion. The Council of State ruled that, at least temporarily, the government needs to change its measures so that a possible restriction […]
Shock proofing: Can Istanbul stand up to the next big earthquake?
TESSA FOX, writing for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Istanbul…
London leaders defy “immoral” new rule to deport rough sleepers
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation London leaders said on Tuesday they would not co-operate with “deeply immoral” new immigration rules allowing for the deportation of foreign rough-sleepers. They said the policy would deter vulnerable people from seeking help, putting them at increased risk of exploitation by unscrupulous employers and landlords, and would undermine the government’s efforts […]
Essay: The Taliban are megarich – here’s where they get the money they use to wage war in Afghanistan
HANIF SUFIZADA, an economic policy analyst at the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha, looks at where the Taliban’s income comes from…