Three-quarters of people in G20 nations see climate, nature near tipping points
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Three in four people living in the world’s 20 major economies believe nature and the Earth’s climate are approaching potentially abrupt or irreversible changes due to human action, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The online poll of almost 20,000 people aged 16 to 75, living in G20 nations, […]
Haiti quake death toll surges to nearly 2,000, survivors clamor for aid
Les Cayes, HaitiReuters The preliminary death toll from the major earthquake that struck south-western Haiti last weekend surged to 1,941 on Tuesday as the search for survivors resumed after a tropical storm passed and quake-hit Haitians clamored for food, shelter and medical aid. Hospitals struggled to tend to all those injured, the official tally of […]
Haiti mourners tell of church collapse horror during quake
Toirac, HaitiReuters When the ground began to tremble during a church funeral service in the small village of Toirac in southern Haiti, Kettney Francois was trampled in the frantic stampede to escape. Fellow mourners pulled her out from the crush of people and carried her outside, but her teenage daughter and elderly mother were not […]
Malala Yousafzai urges world leaders to take urgent action on Afghanistan
Reuters Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said she was deeply concerned about the situation in Afghanistan, particularly the safety of women and girls, and called on Monday for world leaders to take urgent action. Yousafzai said Biden “has a lot to do” and must “take a bold step” to protect the Afghan people, adding […]
Gina Stewart becomes first woman elected to lead US Black Baptist organisation
RNS In a pathbreaking decision, Rev Gina Stewart has been elected as the first woman president of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Society, marking the first time a female has been chosen for the highest post of a Black Baptist organisation. Stewart, the senior pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, has […]
Clashes in Thailand as pressure builds on PM over coronavirus crisis
Bangkok, ThailandReuters Thai police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters near the office of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday, as opposition parties moved to censure him in parliament over his handling of a COVID-19 crisis. Hundreds of protesters marched on the Government House to demand Prayuth resigns, the latest show of […]
Around 11,000 Cameroonians flee to Chad after violence
N’Djamena, CameroonReuters Around 11,000 people fleeing clashes between herders and fishermen in northern Cameroon arrived in neighbouring Chad at the weekend, a provincial governor in Chad said on Monday. About 20 people have been killed in what officials say is Cameroon’s worst ethnic violence in recent memory. Clashes broke out last week between fishermen and […]
Complex truth
I read that in every Pixar movie the hero gets what they want, only to discover it’s not what they really need. PICTURE: Mélanie THESE/Unsplash They must then go on an amazingly testing adventure to discover an emotionally complex truth. Woody gets rid of Buzz to become number one again, only to discover that a […]
Haiti earthquake: Anger rises over aid response to past disasters
LAURA GOTTESDIENER and DAVE GRAHAM, of Reuters, report from Haiti in the wake of Saturday’s earthquake…
US refugee aid groups criticise Biden for stumbles in evacuating “desperate” Afghans
Washington DC/Chicago, USRNS As most Americans absorbed the shock of the Taliban’s full takeover of Afghanistan over the weekend, officials at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service followed the rapidly deteriorating situation with resignation, knowing it could have gone differently. In May, leaders at LIRS, one of several faith-based agencies contracted with the US Government to […]