Oh! Christmas tree? Cardboard display is the talk of a US town
Asbury Park, New Jersey, USAP It has been called beautiful, awesome and brilliant, a transcendent work of art that reimagines the holiday experience with local touches of the Jersey Shore. It also has been called ridiculous, ugly and hideous, something akin to a pile of Amazon shipping boxes or a giant cat-scratching post. Good grief! […]
Lifestory: A second chance at life after being diagnosed with stage four cancer
SAMANTHA ELLEY speaks to Australian Tony Dowling about his journey with God through cancer and his call to start photographic business Sunrise Daily…
Catholic nuns lift veil on abuse in convents
Vatican CityReuters When young nuns at a convent in Eastern Europe told their Mother Superior that a priest had tried to molest them, she retorted that it was probably their fault for “provoking him”. When African nuns in Minnesota asked why it was always they who had to shovel snow they were told it was […]
India’s parliament passes bill to repeal controversial farm laws
New Delhi, IndiaReuters India’s parliament on Monday passed a bill to repeal three laws aiming at deregulating agricultural markets, bowing to pressure from farmers who have protested for over a year to demand that the laws be rolled back. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration introduced the farm bills last year through an executive order, traditionally […]
Don’t use migrants as pawns in political strategies, Pope tells governments
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis said on Monday that migrants were being exploited as “pawns” on a political chessboard in an apparent reference to the crisis at the Belarus border. Thousands of migrants are stuck on the European Union’s eastern frontier in what the EU says is a crisis Minsk engineered by distributing Belarusian visas in […]
Updated: WHO flags Omicron risk, curbs tighten worldwide, Biden urges vaccination
Last updated: 6.30am, 30th November, 2021 (AEDT)Tokyo, Japan/Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday the Omicron coronavirus variant carried a very high risk of infection surges as more countries closed borders, casting a shadow over economic recovery from the two-year pandemic. Big airlines acted swiftly to protect their hubs by curbing passenger […]
WHO reaches draft consensus on future pandemic treaty
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Member states of the World Health Organization have reached a tentative consensus to negotiate a future agreement on preventing pandemics, bridging the gap between sides led by the European Union and United States, diplomats said on Sunday. The draft resolution, hammered out in negotiations over the weekend, will be presented for adoption to […]
A new republic is born: Barbados celebrates ditching Britain’s Queen
London, UKReuters Barbados, a former British colony, will this week ditch Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, breaking its last remaining imperial bonds with Britain nearly 400 years since the first English ship arrived at the Caribbean island. Barbados casts the removal of Elizabeth II, who is Queen of Barbados and 15 other realms including the United […]
Israel to allow 3,000 Ethiopian Jews to immigrate
Jerusalem, Israel AP Israel’s government on Sunday approved the immigration of several thousand Jews from war-torn Ethiopia, some of whom have waited for decades to join their relatives in Israel. The decision took a step toward resolving an issue that has long complicated the government’s relations with the country’s Ethiopian community. Some 140,000 Ethiopian Jews […]
Calm returns as clean-up begins in Solomon Islands – media
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Soldiers and police from Australia and Papua New Guinea were helping to restore calm in the Solomon Islands as clean-up operations started, after several days of rioting left three dead and led to dozens of arrests, local media reported. The Solomon Star newspaper said Australian soldiers and police and troops from Papua New […]