Anti-coup protesters defy junta warning, strike grips Myanmar
Reuters A general strike against military rule shut businesses in Myanmar on Monday and huge crowds gathered peacefully despite fears of violence after authorities warned that confrontation could be deadly. Three weeks after seizing power, the junta has failed to stop the daily protests and a civil disobedience movement calling for the reversal of the […]
Canada’s Trudeau, Cabinet abstain from China genocide vote
Toronto, CanadaAP Canada’s House of Commons voted Monday to declare that China is committing genocide against more than one million Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet abstained from the vote. The non-binding motion passed 266 to zero as virtually all but Trudeau and his Cabinet voted for […]
Middle men
You know from watching nature documentaries that the young buck’s natural desire is to become Mufasa – the chief. Young bucks that don’t are banished or leave the pride disillusioned. Men at work. PICTURE: Shivendu Shukla/Unsplash This same thing happens to males in our species. Men have an innate desire to be someone – and if […]
Restoring sight: In the midst of a pandemic, Nigeria battles to end a painful blinding disease
ADAOBI TRICIA NWAUBANI and NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how the work to continue restoring eyesight has gone on in Nigeria despite disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic…
US author Shauna Niequist apologises for her silence following allegations against father, Bill Hybels
RNS Popular Christian author Shauna Niequist has apologised for her silence following the allegations against her father, Bill Hybels, the founding pastor of suburban Chicago megachurch Willow Creek Community Church. Niequist spoke out about the allegations for the first time in a long Instagram caption posted on Monday accompanying a simple image with the words “An apology”. […]
Essay: I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus
In an article first published on The Conversation, DOMINIC DWYER, an Australian who was a member of a team the WHO sent to China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, reports on what they found…