Ethiopian army starts ground attack on rebellious Tigray forces – regional party spokesman
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Ethiopia’s national army launched a ground offensive against forces from the northern region of Tigray on Monday, the region’s ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front said. TPLF spokesperson Getachew Reda told Reuters by phone that the army, alongside allied forces from the northern Amhara region, had launched the offensive to push Tigrayan forces out […]
Wow!: Egyptian group helps burn victims fight stigma
HANAA HABIEB, of Reuters, on how groups in cities like Alexandria are providing support to burns victims…
Southern Baptist Convention’s lawyers to cut ties after vote to waive privilege
RNS The longtime general counsel for the Southern Baptist Convention has decided to cut ties with the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. The decision came after members of the SBC’s Nashville-based executive committee decided to waive attorney-client privilege as part of a sexual-abuse investigation. That decision means that records of conversations on legal matters among executive […]
Climate action at COP26 could save millions of lives, WHO says
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization and about three-quarters of global healthcare workers on Monday called on governments to step up climate action at the COP26 global climate conference, saying it could save millions of lives a year. The UN health agency’s report on climate change and health calls for transformational action in every sector […]
More vaccines, climate help needed for poorer nations, say UN, Non-Aligned Movement
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters Developing nations and the head of the United Nations on Monday demanded a fairer global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and more funding from rich countries to help poorer ones adapt to a hotter world. At a meeting to mark the 60th anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement, founder member Ghana hit out at global […]
Madagascar prays for rain as UN warns of “climate change famine”
Amboasury Sud, Madagascar Reuters Some days, all Tsimamorekm Aly eats is sugary water. He’s happy if there’s a handful of rice. But with six young kids and a wife to support, he often goes without. This is the fourth year that drought has devastated Aly’s home in southern Madagascar. Now more than one million people, […]
US says Taliban talks in Doha were “candid and professional”
Washington DC, USReuters The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior US and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was “candid and professional” and that the US side reiterated that the Taliban would be judged on their actions, not just their words. State Department spokesman Ned Price […]
In the US, Biden restores Bears Ears, other monuments cut by Trump
Washington DC, US AP President Joe Biden has restored two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and other development hundreds of thousands of acres of rugged lands sacred to Native Americans and home to ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs. The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante […]
Son of India government minister arrested, accused of killing farmers
Lucknow, IndiaReuters Ashish Mishra, son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra Teni, has been arrested on accusations he ran over and killed four protesting farmers last week, a senior police official said. The farmers, killed on 3rd October in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, were part of India’s longest-running agricultural protest, opposing laws they […]
Migrants in Libya fearful and angry after crackdown and killings
Tripoli, Libya Reuters Hundreds of migrants and refugees waited outside a United Nations centre in Tripoli on Sunday to seek help in escaping Libya after what aid groups called a violent crackdown in which thousands were arrested and several shot. The migrants say they have faced violent abuse and extortion in a country that has […]