Israel-Gaza conflict rages on despite US, regional diplomacy
Gaza/Tel Aviv Reuters Israel pummeled Gaza with air strikes on Monday and Palestinian militants launched rockets at Israeli cities despite a flurry of US and regional diplomacy that has so far failed to halt more than a week of deadly fighting. Israel’s missile attacks on the densely populated Palestinian enclave killed a top Islamic Jihad […]
Updated: India’s Gujarat state evacuates over 200,000 people as cyclone hits
Updated: 9.05amAhmedabad, IndiaReuters More than 200,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the Indian state of Gujarat and authorities shut ports and major airports as the most powerful cyclone in more than two decades made landfall in the state late on Monday. Rain intensified and several incidents of power outages were reported in the state. […]
Blinken discusses Gaza in calls with Qatari, Egyptian, Saudi foreign ministers
Cairo, EgyptReuters US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the violence in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in phone calls with the Qatari, Egyptian and Saudi foreign ministers, the State Department said on Sunday. Blinken and Qatar’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani discussed “efforts to restore calm in Israel and the West Bank and […]
Chile ruling coalition heading for upset in constitutional delegates vote
Santiago, ChileReuters Chile’s centre-right ruling coalition looks set to fail in its bid to keep control of the body drafting the country’s new constitution, falling short of one-third of votes for its list of new delegates with 69 per cent of votes counted. The coalition, Chile Vamos, has secured just 21 per cent of the […]
Arrests in UK over claims anti-Semitic abuse hurled from cars
London, UKAP British police arrested four people on Sunday over videos posted on social media that appeared to show violent anti-Semitic language being shouted from a convoy of cars driving through London. The footage appears to show several cars adorned with Palestinian flags driving through an area of north London with a large Jewish population. […]
Long working hours are a killer, WHO study shows
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday. In the first global study of the loss of life associated with longer working hours, the paper in the journal Environment […]
Talking about race: For transracial adoptive families, it’s an act of love, not ‘woke’ test
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on why Bethany Christian Services, one of the largest evangelical adaption agencies in the US, is pushing back against a “colourblind” approach to interracial adoption…
G7 urged to donate ’emergency’ supplies to vaccine-sharing scheme
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The head of UNICEF on Monday asked G7 countries to donate supplies to the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme as an emergency measure to address a severe shortfall caused by disruption to Indian vaccine exports. India has curbed exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by its Serum Institute, which had been pledged to COVAX, to […]
Essay: PBS’ Billy Graham documentary captures preacher’s pull and ambition
KEN GARFIELD, who covered Billy Graham for ‘The Charlotte Observer’ in North Carolina, reflects, in an article published by Religion News Service, on a new two hour documentary on evangelist Billy Graham…
Israeli paramedics: two dead in synagogue bleacher collapse
Jerusalem, IsraelAP Israeli medics said at least two people were killed and more than 150 injured after a bleacher collapsed at an uncompleted West Bank synagogue on Sunday, the eve of a major Jewish holiday. The bleacher was packed with ultra-Orthodox worshippers and collapsed during prayers at the beginning of Shavuot. A spokesman for Magen […]