Gazans reel under heat and lengthy power cuts
GazaReuters For Palestinians living on the crowded Gaza Strip, a searing summer heatwave has been made worse by power cuts that leave them without electricity for as much as 10 hours a day. “The fan is broken, the battery is not working and we are fanning ourselves with trays,” said Alaa Zidan as she sat […]
After COVID: Inside the super-secure Swiss lab trying to stop the next pandemic
JENNIFER RIGBY, of Reuters, reports on the work of the Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland…
Fiji, moving villages inundated by rising seas, wants big emitters to pay
Serua, FijiReuters Boats moor next to living rooms on Fiji’s Serua Island, where water breaches the seawall at high tide, flooding into the village. Planks of wood stretch between some homes, forming a makeshift walkway as saltwater inundates gardens. Village elders always believed they would die here on prized land where their chiefs are buried. […]
Essay: Armed militias in Brazil hold enormous sway over fate of Amazon – and the global climate
UK-based scholar NICHOLAS POPE, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at how, with the help of militias and mafias, land-grabbing and resource exploitation continue in the Brazilian Amazon…
Wow!: English cathedral uses app to engage children with its history
ANGELA YOUNGMAN looks at a first-of-its-kind app designed to help children engage with Hereford Cathedral’s treasures and heritage…
In the UK, family loses Supreme Court bid to extend boy’s life support
London, UKAP Britain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to prevent a hospital withdrawing life support from a 12-year-old boy with catastrophic brain damage, rejecting a bid by his parents to extend his treatment. The parents of Archie Battersbee had asked Supreme Court justices to block a lower court’s ruling that the Royal London Hospital can […]
Congo to reassess UN withdrawal plan after deadly protests
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters Democratic Republic of Congo’s government will re-evaluate the withdrawal plan of the United Nations peacekeeping mission after deadly anti-UN protests last week, it said late on Monday, suggesting it may ask the force to leave sooner than expected. The UN peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, said on Tuesday that it […]