China confirms all on board China Eastern plane died in crash
Beijing, ChinaReuters China confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died. Flight MU5735 was travelling from the south-western city of Kunming to the port city of Guangzhou on Monday when it plummeted from cruising altitude to crash in a heavily forested […]
Rockets hit western Ukraine, Biden in Poland decries Putin’s grip on power
Lviv, Ukraine/Warsaw, Poland Reuters Rockets struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, signalling a potential new front in Moscow’s invasion as US President Joe Biden decried Russian President Vladimir Putin’s power and sought to steel Europe for a long fight ahead. Intense fighting raged in several parts of Ukraine, suggesting there will be […]
Nicaragua expels Red Cross representative without giving reason
Managua, NicaraguaReuters Nicaragua has expelled a top representative from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) without giving any reasoning, the humanitarian group said on Friday. The expulsion comes days after a similar decision in which Nicaragua ordered Vatican ambassador Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag to leave, which the Holy See called “incomprehensible”. Members of the […]
US cancels talks with Taliban over U-turn on girls’ education
Kabul, Afghanistan/Washington DC, US Reuters The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Taliban in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Afghanistan’s Islamist rulers reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes. The cancellation of talks was the first concrete sign that […]
Africa’s water security perilous – but data reveals surprises
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Little of Africa’s wastewater is treated, water for drinking and hand-washing is scarce for hundreds of millions of people, and water-related disasters like flooding are on the rise, particularly in West Africa. But a first effort by UN University researchers to look comprehensively at the continent’s water security – something done in few […]
Ethiopia’s Tigray region says it will observe humanitarian ceasefire
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters Rebellious Tigrayan forces in Ethiopia have said they will respect a ceasefire proposed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government as long as sufficient aid is delivered to their war-scarred northern region “within reasonable time”. The government in Addis Ababa declared the cessation of hostilities on Thursday, saying it was to allow aid […]
“Faster and safer”: Asian farmers turn to drones, apps for labour, climate challenges
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how falling technology costs, labour shortages are driving popularity of digital tools to improve crop yields, farm incomes in Asia…
“We are lost”: Yemenis face eighth year of struggle as war grinds on
Sana’a, Yemen Reuters Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger. Rmeishi, who is in the ninth grade, helps his family by working at his father’s car repair […]