Italy takes in National Geographic’s green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’
Rome, Italy Reuters Italy has given safe haven to Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed “Afghan Girl” whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country’s wars, Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s office said on Thursday. The government intervened after Gula asked for help to leave Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of the country in […]
‘George Floyd’ pieta stolen from Catholic university after artist receives death threats
RNS A painting of Jesus and his mother, Mary, in which Jesus is seen by many to be painted in the likeness of George Floyd in response to his agonising death, was stolen from Catholic University of America Columbus Law School this week after a spate of conservative media attention and death threats directed at […]
‘We need to work’: Hundreds of migrants form new US-bound caravan in Mexico
Tapachula, MexicoReuters Hundreds of Central American and Haitian migrants formed a new caravan on Friday in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, and began walking north toward the United States. The migrants said they wanted to leave Chiapas as they had not been given humanitarian visas promised by Mexico or transferred […]
Labour rights: Food delivery drivers question gig platforms’ safety nets
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports, amid a surge in the gig economy, about growing concerns over the rights of food delivery drivers around the world…
Pope Francis and Macron meet at the Vatican; in separate development, Paris Archbishop offers to resign
Vatican CityRNS French President Emmanuel Macron met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday, where they discussed the future of Europe and the results of the COP26 environmental summit in Glasgow in November. Macron and the Pope spoke in private at the Vatican before meeting with Francis’ right-hand man at the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro […]