Higher food prices help fuel 40 per cent jump in global hunger – UN agency
London, UKReuters Acute food insecurity has soared 40 per cent this year as recent food price hikes have exacerbated existing pressures from conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations World Food Programme said. Defined as any lack of food that threatens lives, livelihoods or both, acute food insecurity is impacting, or is […]
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“Stay home, stay safe”: Haitian Americans fret for relatives trapped by turmoil
New York City, USReuters At Radio Soleil, the usual playlist of pulsing Haitian ‘compas’ dance music has been replaced this week with more somber tunes and political analysis as listeners across the diaspora reel from the shock of Haiti President Jovenel Moise’s assassination. Broadcasting from the station’s small Brooklyn storefront, director Ricot Dupuy has fielded […]
UN Security Council to vote Friday on Syria aid access
United NationsReuters Russia has proposed that the UN Security Council extend aid access into Syria from Turkey for six months in response to a rival bid by Western council members to renew the long-running UN cross-border aid operation for 12 months, diplomats said. After not engaging in negotiations on a resolution drafted by Ireland and […]
Biden says Afghans must decide own future; US to leave on 31st August
Washington DC, USReuters US President Joe Biden on Thursday strongly defended his decision to pull US military forces out of Afghanistan, saying the Afghan people must decide their own future and that he would not consign another generation of Americans to the 20-year war. Speaking in the White House East Room, Biden said the Afghan […]
Updated: Haiti says 26 Colombians, two Haitian Americans among group that killed President
Updated: 12pm (AEST)Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise was composed of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, authorities said on Thursday, as the hunt went on for the masterminds of the killing. Moise, 53, was fatally shot early on Wednesday at his home by what officials said was […]
“Peace is possible!”: Quakers claim victory in US military authorisation vote – but the campaigning continues
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on the work of the Friends Committee on National Legislation…
In the US, white mainline Protestants outnumber white evangelicals, while ‘nones’ shrink – survey finds
RNS White Christian decline has slowed. Mainline Protestants now outnumber white evangelicals. New York is home to several of the most religiously diverse counties in the US. These shifts and findings are among some of the notable revelations documented in a sweeping and exhaustive survey of the US religious landscape by the Public Religion Research Institute. The […]
Essay: UK offshore asylum plan is just another way of imposing forced movement on vulnerable people
In an article first published on The Conversation, LEONIE ANSEMS DE VRIES, senior lecturer in international relations and chair of the Migration Research Group at King’s College London, looks at the UK Government’s proposal to move asylum seekers offshore until their claims are processed…