“Pure desperation”: The high price of a Sri Lankan family’s bid to flee crisis
ALASDAIR PAL and SANTHUSH FERNANDO, of Reuters, report on the story one family among hundreds of Sri Lankans who attempted to escape an unprecedented economic meltdown in Sri Lanka by boarding fishing boats bound for Australia…
A year after Biden’s Afghanistan exit, accountability in short supply
Washington DC, US Reuters As weary US military planners wrapped up the evacuation and pullout from Afghanistan one year ago, officials across the government steeled themselves for intense public scrutiny into how America’s longest war ended in shambles with the Taliban retaking power. But as the United States marks the first anniversary of the withdrawal […]
Essay: Food and fighting – five ways that conflict causes hunger
HEATHER KEITH, of Baptist World Aid Australia, looks at the connection between conflicts and food crises around the world…
My Mission: Exploring “Traveller theology”
ANGELA YOUNGMAN speaks with Steven Horne about his exploration of Gypsy, Romany and Traveller theology…
Costa Rica prepares plan to regularise status of 200,000 mostly Nicaraguan migrants
San Jose, Costa Rica Reuters Costa Rica is readying a plan to regularise the status of some 200,000 migrants, largely from the Central American country’s northern neighbor Nicaragua, authorities told Reuters on Wednesday. The plan aims to formally include the migrants in the jobs market and healthcare system, Costa Rica’s migration head Marlen Luna told […]
Like a scene from ‘Parasite’: Floods lay bare social disparity in South Korea
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Using a plastic bowl, Ha In-sik bailed water out of his lower ground apartment in the low-income housing district of Sillim in southwestern Seoul on Wednesday, where flooding caused by torrential rain forced his family to sleep at a nearby park. The 50-year-old man, along with his wife and daughter had collected […]