Anglican leader visits Canadian residential school survivors
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, CanadaAP The head of the Anglican Church told a gathering of Canadian residential school survivors Saturday he was sorry for the church’s role in the “terrible crime” that was committed. Rev Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited the James Smith Cree Nation and heard stories shared by residential school survivors. “It […]
Civilians evacuated from Ukraine’s Mariupol; US Speaker Pelosi visits Kyiv
Kyiv/Bezimenne, Ukraine Reuters Around 100 Ukrainian civilians were evacuated from the ruined Azovstal steelworks in the city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after the United Nations confirmed a “safe passage operation” was in progress there. The strategic port city on the Azov Sea has endured the most destructive siege of the […]
Russia says Ukraine shells its own civilians; some evacuations in Mariupol
Dobropillia/Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s shelling killed and injured its own civilians in the southern region of Kherson, Russia said on Sunday, after pounding southern and eastern areas with missile strikes, while some civilians got away from a steel plant in besieged Mariupol. Moscow has turned its focus to Ukraine’s south and east after failing to […]
Ukrainian forges plane wreckage into key fobs to fund war effort
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Never mind forging swords into ploughshares; a Ukrainian businessman is turning scraps of wreckage from a downed Russian fighter plane into souvenir key fobs and selling them abroad to support the war effort. “Many of my friends tell me ‘$1,000 – nobody will give you this for this piece of metal, it’s […]
World’s first NFT museum in Seattle aims to “pull back the curtain” on blockchain art
Seattle, US Reuters The world’s first permanent NFT art museum has opened in Seattle, aiming to “pull back the curtain” on blockchain-based digital art. Non-fungible tokens are a type of digital asset that has exploded in popularity recently, with NFT artworks selling for millions of dollars. NFTs exist on a blockchain, a record of transactions […]
Ecuador declares emergency in three provinces on rising crime
Quito, EcuadorReuters Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso on Friday declared a 60-day state of emergency, including curfews in some areas and the deployment of thousands of security forces, in three of the country’s 24 provinces, citing a rise in crime. It marks the second time Lasso has used emergency powers to counter violence that has shot […]
Impacts of war: How Africa is bearing the brunt of palm oil’s perfect storm
ANGE ABOA and JOE BAVIER, of Reuters, report on how the knock-on effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have impacted the palm oil industry in countries like the Ivory Coast…