Twenty-five killed in deadliest Rio police raid since 2005
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilReuters At least 25 people were killed in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and police in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, one of the state’s deadliest police raids, police said. People targeted in the raid in the poor Jacarezinho neighbourhood tried to escape across rooftops as police arrived in armored vehicles […]
EU supports COVID vaccine patent waiver talks, but critics say won’t solve scarcity
Brussels, BelgiumReuters The European Union on Thursday backed a US proposal to discuss waiving patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines, but drugmakers and some other governments opposed the idea, saying it would not solve global inoculation shortages. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed willingness to explore a waiver after President Joe Biden on Wednesday […]
On the Screen: ‘Minari’ a lovingly made portrait of a Korean American family trying to get ahead
DAVID ADAMS watches the Oscar-winning film depicting the life of one Korean American family and their search for a better life…
COVID spreading in rural India with record daily rises in infections, deaths; churches to hold day of prayer and healing
Bengalaru, IndiaReuters India reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside. COVID-19 infections in the world’s second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll […]
Significant Sights: The National Park discovered by a minister who collected fossils and taught evolution
JULIA DUIN, of Religion Unplugged, visits the Thomas Condon Paleontology Center in Oregon…
Malian woman gives birth to nine babies
Bamako, MaliReuters A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday – two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb – joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets. The pregnancy of Halima Cisse, 25, has fascinated the West African nation and attracted the attention of its leaders. When doctors in March […]
Faced with climate challenges, Vietnamese rice farmers switch to shrimp
Tran De, VietnamReuters For years, Ta Thi Thanh Thuy toiled on a sliver of land sandwiched between the Mekong River and the South China Sea, a region widely known as Vietnam’s rice bowl, to grow the prized grain. But Thuy, along with many of her neighbours, has over the past decade completed a production swap […]
Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Midwives are routinely “overlooked and ignored” despite saving millions of lives a year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, urging the world to hire more women and safeguard new life. In a joint report compiled with medics, the UN said urgent investment was needed to plug a global shortfall of some […]
Nearly 20 million more people hit by food crises last year
London, UKReuters Nearly 20 million more people faced food crises last year amid armed conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and weather extremes, and the outlook for this year is again grim, according to a report by the Global Network Against Food Crises. The humanitarian agency, set up in 2016 by the European Union and United Nations, […]
Tree conservation: Forest emission reductions get a makeover, with $US1 billion in new funding
MEGAN ROWLING, writing for Thomson Reurers Foundation, reports on a new LEAF Foundation initiative which rewards nations for lowering deforestation…