Earthquake hits remote northern Peru, at least 75 homes destroyed, no deaths reported
Updated: 3.50pm (AEDT)Reuters A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook the remote Amazon region of northern Peru on Sunday and was felt as far as Lima in the center of the country, destroying 75 homes but with no deaths reported. The seismological center of the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP) said the earthquake had a depth of 131 kilometres and that […]
Bridging the digital divide: The rise of community internet in Africa
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the role decentralised networks are playing in increasing access to the internet…
“It’s all lies”; migrants stuck at Polish border feel cheated by people smugglers
Orla/Bialystok, PolandReuters Syrian friends Anas Kanaan, 34, and Mouein al-Hadi, 36, were told by people smugglers that they would easily be able to get to Germany from Belarus. They just had to pay €3,000 each to an intermediary in Turkey. But the safe crossings from Belarus to Poland indicated by the smugglers were closed off. […]
Essay: Happy New Year, it’s Advent
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE reflects on the start of Advent…