Myanmar security forces with rifle grenades kill over 80 protesters – monitoring group
Reuters Myanmar security forces fired rifle grenades at protesters in a town near Yangon on Friday, killing more than 80 people, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners monitoring group and a domestic news outlet said. Details of the death toll in the town of Bago, 90 kilometres north-east of Yangon, were not initially available because […]
Updated: Prince Charles pays tribute to “my dear papa” Philip for devoted service
Last updated: 8.30am, 11th April, 2021 (AEDT)Windsor, EnglandReuters Britain’s Prince Charles paid a personal tribute on Saturday to his “dear papa” Prince Philip, saying the royal family missed him enormously and that the 99-year-old would have been amazed at the touching reaction across the world to his death. Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth […]
‘Vaccine grabbing’ seen fueling risk of fake COVID-19 jabs in Africa
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation The unequal global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines could spur the trade in fake doses in Africa – a hotspot for counterfeit medicines, analysts warned on Friday, citing the seizure of falsified vaccination shots in South Africa. With poorer countries grappling to procure enough vaccine doses for their people, criminals will likely […]
Robert Lesslie, doctor killed in South Carolina shooting, saw ‘Angels in the ER’ and wrote hopeful stories of faith in tragedy
RNS Robert Lesslie always tried to see God in everyone he met, even in the midst of tragedy and crisis. “We are all God’s children,” Lesslie, a longtime emergency room doctor and Christian author told the Rock Hill Herald in 2008. “If you lose that belief in the ER, you can become cynical, disenchanted and mean-spirited. For […]
Baptists organise multi-ethnic diaspora rally in Washington DC against coup in Myanmar
RNS Clara Thethtet Tunwin had had enough. Tunwin, who emigrated with her family from Myanmar in the early 2000s, had been closely following news of protests against the military coup in her home country and was angered at the violence she saw. “I just could not take it anymore,” she said. Anti-coup protesters walk through […]
Northern Irish loyalists demand Brexit changes, call for end to street violence
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UKReuters Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a “spectacular collective failure” to understand their anger over Brexit and other issues as there was some respite in street clashes following a week of riots. Despite appeals for calm from London, Dublin and Washington, the nightly unrest in […]
Out of my mind: Advances in brain tech spur calls for ‘neuro-rights’
AVI ASHER-SCHAPIRO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the push to protect how a person’s brain data is accessed and used…
Volcano erupts in southern Caribbean, sparking evacuation “frenzy”
Rose Hall, St Vincent and the GrenadinesReuters La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent erupted on Friday after decades of inactivity, sending dark plumes of ash and smoke billowing into the sky and forcing thousands from surrounding villages to evacuate. Dormant since 1979, the volcano started showing signs of activity in […]
Cancelled flights, expired clearances: US refugee resettlement in limbo awaiting promised changes
RNS It’s been two months since President Joe Biden signed an executive order he said would “begin the hard work of restoring our refugee admissions program.” Part of that work was to include raising the number of refugees allowed into the United States from 15,000, a historic low set by the former president, to 125,000 in the […]
WHO warns on Brazil COVID-19 outbreak as Bolsonaro blasts Senate inquiry
Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday blasted a pending Senate inquiry on his handling of a record-breaking COVID-19 outbreak, which global health officials compared to a “raging inferno”. Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso ruled late on Thursday that enough senators had signed on to a proposed inquiry on the government’s pandemic […]