Wow!: Urban Indians beat space crunch by investing in digital solar power
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how, with many Indian city-dwellers unable to install solar panels, start-ups are offering them the opportunity to invest in solar power production elsewhere in return for green electricity credits…
Ugandan President agrees to engage with Anglican Church leaders over expectant mothers attending church-run schools
Kampala, Uganda Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has agreed to engage with the country’s Anglican Church leadership to resolve an impasse which has seen thousands of expectant school girls locked out of the country’s church-founded schools since the beginning of the academic year. In January, at the start of the academic year, a sharp disagreement emerged […]
World Vision Australia CEO Daniel Wordsworth finds a “tsunami of suffering” in visit to Romania-Ukraine border region
Melbourne, Australia A “tsunami of suffering” is how Daniel Wordsworth, CEO of World Vision Australia, described what he saw when visiting the Romanian-Ukraine border region recently where he bore witness to the arrival of some of the more than three million people who have now fled Ukraine. Following the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine […]
Updated: Chinese Boeing crashes with 132 on board, no sign of survivors
Updated: 10am (AEDT), 22nd March, 2022Guangzhou, ChinaReuters A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight on Monday after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. Media said there were no signs of survivors. The airline said it deeply mourned the passengers and crew, […]
Vatican defends hasty rollout of revolutionary laity reform
Vatican CityAP Vatican officials on Monday defended the last-minute rollout of Pope Francis’ reform of the Holy See bureaucracy while also painting it as one of the most consequential moves of his pontificate since it recognises that any believer, male or female, can head a Vatican office. The new apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium, or Proclaiming […]
Ukraine rejects ultimatums as conflict intensifies
Mariupol/Lviv/Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine said it would not accept ultimatums from Russia after Moscow demanded it stop defending besieged Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering through Russian bombardments laying waste to their city. Mariupol has become a focal point of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, but attacks were also reported to have intensified […]
EU sees high risk of child trafficking as 3.3 million Ukrainians flee to Europe
Reuters The European Union’s migration commissioner warned on Monday that Ukrainian children were in danger of being trafficked as they flee their country from the Russian invasion. Ylva Johansson told a news conference in Estonia that about half of 3.3 million Ukrainians who had fled to EU countries since the start of the war were […]
Australia to make Big Tech hand over misinformation data
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s media regulator will be able to force internet companies to provide internal data about how they have handled misinformation and disinformation, the latest measure by the country’s government to crack down on Big Tech. The Australian Communications and Media Authority will also be able to enforce an internet industry code on uncooperative […]
In the US, scholars, activists brief lawmakers on role of Christian nationalism at insurrection
Washington DC, US RNS Members of the Congressional Freethought Caucus met with a group of scholars and activists last week to review a new report detailing the role Christian nationalism played in the insurrection that took place at the US Capitol on 6th January, 2021. The meeting last Thursday evening was a rare instance of […]
British royals dance, make chocolate in Belize as tour brightens
Hopkins, Belize Reuters Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate danced with Belizean villagers and helped make traditional chocolate on Sunday as the second day of their Caribbean tour passed off smoothly following an awkward start to the weeklong trip. The arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to the Central American country coincides […]