US aid chief says emergency food in Ethiopia’s Tigray to run out this week
Nairobi, KenyaReuters For the first time in nine months of war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, aid workers will this week run out of food to deliver to millions of people who are going hungry there, the head of the US Government’s humanitarian agency said. “USAID and its partners as well as other humanitarian organisations have […]
NATO pledges to speed evacuations from Afghanistan as criticism mounts
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters More than 18,000 people have been flown out of Kabul since the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital, a NATO official said on Friday, pledging to redouble evacuation efforts as criticism of the West’s handling of the crisis mounted. Thousands of people, desperate to flee the country, continued to throng the airport, the official […]
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China pushes adoption of language, cultural symbols in Tibet
Beijing, ChinaAP A top Chinese official said Thursday that “all-round efforts” are needed to ensure Tibetans speak standard spoken and written Chinese and share the “cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation.” Wang Yang made the remarks before a handpicked audience in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the home of Tibet’s traditional […]
Locked-up and fed-up: Australian voters put Prime Minister on notice
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Kathy Chalker, a Sydney art studio owner, is just the sort of voter Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison needs to win the country’s next election – a long-time conservative party supporter with a small business in a swing seat. But Chalker has already decided to vote Morrison out. With her business closed indefinitely […]
South Korea to grant legal status to animals to tackle abuse, abandonment
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Jin-hui, a cream-coloured Pomeranian, was buried alive and left for dead in 2018 in the South Korean port city of Busan. No charges were filed against its owner at the time, but animal abusers and those who abandon pets will soon face harsher punishment as South Korea plans to amend its civil […]
World leaders out of excuses on climate change, Thunberg, youth activists say
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters The world’s children cannot afford more empty promises at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), youth activists including Greta Thunberg said, after a UN report found virtually no child will escape the impact of global warming. In the first index of its kind, published on Friday, UN children’s agency UNICEF […]
Profits and poppies: How Afghanistan’s illegal drug trade has been a boon for the Taliban
JONATHAN LANDAY, of Reuters, reports on how the Taliban – and others – have exploited the drug trade in Afghanistan…
Foreign aid trickles in to rural Haiti amid struggle to count victims
Cavaillon, Haiti Reuters A drip of foreign aid began to reach more rural areas of south-western Haiti on Thursday, arriving five days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,000 and flattened tens of thousands of buildings into rubble. Hundreds of people lined up to receive provisions from the UN World Food Programme at a camp […]