Updated: Six die, scores feared missing in Nigeria after collapse of high-rise
Updated: 4.15pm (AEDT) Lagos, NigeriaReuters At least six people have died in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos after the collapse of a high-rise building that was under construction, the state emergency services chief said on Tuesday. Building collapses are frequent in Africa’s most populous country, where regulations are poorly enforced and construction materials often substandard. People […]
More than 100 global leaders pledge to end deforestation by 2030
Glasgow, UKReuters More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $US19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests. The joint statement at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow was backed by the leaders […]
Hope
Charles Dickens wrote that the “pain of parting is nothing compared to the joy of reunion” This is an idea explored in the Bible, where a character like Joseph suffers terribly, sold as a slave, falsely put in jail. Sunrise drowns out the darkness. PICTURE: Ravi Sharma/Unsplash. Yet after decades of suffering providence rewards […]
Uphill struggle: Russia counts cost of missteps, vaccine refusals as COVID tide keeps rising
As the world passes five million deaths from COVID-19, POLINA NIKOLSKAYA and MAXIM SHEMETOV, of Reuters, report from the Russian city of Oryol…
Bangladeshi veteran of UN climate talks fears COP26 will fail the world’s poorest
Glasgow, UKThomson Reuters Foundation For top Bangladeshi scientist Saleemul Huq, the inequities of climate change are hard to avoid – even at the COP26 UN talks in Glasgow. Since arriving for the crunch negotiations, he’s made a long daily commute to the conference venue by train from his hotel in Edinburgh – the nearest place […]
Essay: What 20 years (and counting) of the war on terror must teach us
In an article published by Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the US-based Friends Committee on National Legislation, says it’s “clearer than ever the global war on terror has been an unmitigated humanitarian and strategic disaster”…