Two Nigeria churches attacked; worshippers killed, abducted
Abuja, Nigeria AP Gunmen attacked two churches in rural north-western Nigeria on Sunday, killing three people, witnesses and a state official said, weeks after a similar attack in the West African nation left 40 worshippers dead. The attack in Kajuru area of Kaduna State targeted four villages, resulting in the abduction of unspecified number of […]
Russia advances in battle for eastern Ukraine city as NATO warns of long war
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia said on Sunday it seized a village near Ukraine’s industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a prime target in Moscow’s campaign to control the country’s east, as the head of NATO predicted the war could last for years. Russia’s defence ministry said it had won Metyolkine, a settlement of fewer than 800 people before […]
Monsoon floods kill 42 people, millions stranded in Bangladesh, India
Dhaka, Bangladesh/Assam, India Reuters At least 25 people were killed by lightning or landslides over the weekend in Bangladesh while millions were left marooned or homeless in low-lying northeastern parts hit by the worst monsoon floods in the country’s recent history, officials said. In the neighbouring Indian state of Assam, at least 17 people were […]
Pleas for help as Myanmar awaits high-profile executions
Reuters The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar’s ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship. Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Jimmy, and former lawmaker and hip-hop artist […]
Corn price hike forces Mexicans to cut back on tortillas
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Business at Marco Antonio Jimenez’s taco stall in Mexico City was just starting to recover from repeated COVID-19 lockdowns when global corn prices skyrocketed, sinking his sales once again. The surge in the cost of corn – which is used to make Mexico’s staple tortilla – forced Jimenez to raise […]
Lithuanian Catholic bishops call for scrapping of same-sex partnership bill
Vilnius, LithuaniaReuters Lithuanian Catholic bishops have called on politicians to vote down proposed same-sex partnership legislation, quoting words used by Pope Francis to argue that civil unions distort the concept of marriage and family. Lithuania’s parliament last month voted to accept for further debate a draft bill legalising same-sex civil partnerships, after voting down a […]
Pakistan: In hottest city on Earth, mothers bear brunt of climate change
CHARLOTTE GREENFIELD and GLORIA DICKIE, of Reuters, report from Jacobabad…