Moscow fumes over Lithuania rail ban to Russian region; actor Ben Stiller visits Ukraine refugees
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia warned Lithuania on Tuesday that it would face measures of a “serious negative impact” for blocking some shipments by rail to Moscow’s Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, in its latest dispute over Western sanctions imposed on the country for the war in Ukraine. Russian forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine made further […]
Floods swamp more of Bangladesh and India, millions marooned
Dhaka, Bangladesh/Guwahati, India Reuters Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and north-east India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods in more than a century in some parts of […]
Around 800 Syrians return from Turkey weekly -UN refugee agency official
Istanbul, TurkeyReuters About 800 Syrian refugees are returning to their country from Turkey every week but conditions are not suitable for a large number of voluntary returns, an official from the United Nations refugee agency said. Turkey hosts around 3.7 million Syrians, the largest refugee population in the world, but worsening public sentiment has led […]
Russian journalist’s Nobel Peace Prize fetches record $US103.5 million at auction to aid Ukraine children
Reuters Dmitry Muratov, the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and the editor of one of Russia’s last major independent newspapers, auctioned off his Nobel medal for a record $US103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine. All proceeds from the auction, which coincided with the World Refugee Day on Monday, […]
A Sustainable Life: Greenwashing – how ads get you to think brands are greener than they are, and how to avoid falling for it
Open University academics MORTEZA ABOLHASANI, GORDON LIU and ZAHRA GOLROKHI look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at how to look beyond “greenwashing”…
“Good or bad, it’s Hong Kong history” says British colonial museum founder
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong’s British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is firmly back in the fold of the mainland. Ong, 42, has been collecting colonial memorabilia since he was a child and […]
Civil society group flays diamond watchdog over Russia stalemate
Reuters The Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition on Monday sharply criticised the global diamond watchdog for resisting efforts to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at this week’s international conflict diamond meeting began in Botswana. A rift has emerged within the Kimberley Process – a coalition of governments, the diamond industry and the umbrella coalition representing […]
UN chief to Security Council: “We cannot give up on people of Syria”
United NationsReuters UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Security Council on Monday to extend its approval of aid deliveries from Turkey to millions of people in need in north-west Syria, telling the body: “We cannot give up on the people of Syria”. The UN mandate, which has allowed deliveries from Turkey to Syria’s opposition-controlled […]
Impact your children
When I first had kids, I really didn’t think I was going to have a huge influence on who they became. PICTURE: Ben Wicks/Unsplash I mean, the world was going to scream at them through the TV, the internet, school and their peers. I thought it would be a battle where they said, “Yeah, whatever […]
Facing hunger: A Somali boy’s mission to find food as climate change takes its toll
KATHERINE HOURELD, of Reuters, reports from Dollow in Somalia…