Essay: Amid calls to #TaxTheChurches – what and how much do US religious organisations not pay the taxman?
In an article first published on The Conversation, RYAN CRAGUN, a professor of sociology at the University of Tampa, looks at the issue of tax exemptions for churches in the US…
Postcards: Chile’s record-breaking drought makes climate change “very easy” to see
ESTEBAN MEDEL, of Reuters, reports on Chile’s decades-long drought…
Taliban spokesman says “war is over in Afghanistan” – Al Jazeera
Cairo, EgyptReuters The spokesman for the Taliban’s political office on Sunday declared the war was over in Afghanistan and called for peaceful relations with the international community. Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said in interviews with Al Jazeera TV the Taliban did not want to live in isolation and the type of rule and the form of […]
South Korea sets up ‘bus walls’ as protesters defy COVID-19 warnings
Seoul, South KoreaReuters South Korean police mobilised hundreds of buses and set up dozens of checkpoints on Sunday to head off political rallies in Seoul, as some groups pushed ahead with annual protests in defiance of warnings over the spread of the novel coronavirus. South Korea has largely been held up as a coronavirus success […]