Coronavirus surge pushes Cuba’s healthcare system to brink
Havana, CubaReuters Cuba is bringing back hundreds of doctors working abroad and converting hotels into isolation centres and hospitals in order to battle a COVID-19 crisis that is overwhelming healthcare and mortuary services in parts of the Caribbean island. The country, which managed to contain infections for most of last year, is now facing one […]
Essay: Australia was a model for protecting people from COVID-19 – and then we dumped half a million people back into poverty
In an article first published on The Conversation, SHARON BESSELL, a professor of public policy at the Australian National University, explains why hundreds of thousands of Australians are now living in poverty…
Taliban could take Afghan capital within 90 days after rapid gains – US intelligence
Reuters Taliban fighters could isolate Afghanistan’s capital in 30 days and possibly take it over within 90, a US defence official cited US intelligence as saying, as the resurgent militants made more advances across the country. The official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity on Wednesday, said the new assessment of how long Kabul […]
Wow!: Wheels on the bus bring school to New Delhi students amid pandemic
ANUSHREE FADNAVIS, of Reuters, reports from New Delhi on an initiative to give children of migrants, labourers, ragpickers and scavengers a chance at an education they might not otherwise get…
US infrastructure bill includes energy efficiency grants for houses of worship
RNS Buried on page 1,729 of the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill approved by the US Senate on Tuesday in a bipartisan vote is a project titled “Energy efficiency materials pilot program”. It would fund $US50 million in grants to non-profits, including religious congregations, so they can buy new energy efficient heating and cooling systems for their buildings. The […]