Eleven dead in mass shooting in Montenegro, state prosecutor says
Cetinje, MontenegroReuters Eleven people, including two children and a gunman, were killed in a mass shooting in Montenegro on Friday, and six others were injured, a state prosecutor told Vijesti TV after an initial investigation of the crime scene. Montenegro Police director Zoran Brdjanin said that around 3.30pm a 34-year old man with a hunting […]
Satellite imagery shows Antarctic ice shelf crumbling faster than thought
Los Angeles, USReuters Antarctica’s coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world’s largest ice sheet over the past 25 years, a satellite analysis showed on Wednesday. The first-of-its-kind study, led by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles and published […]
Snapshot: Nevado Sajama, Bolivia
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“No one can stop them”: African migrants aim for Spain’s Canary Islands
Gran Canaria, SpainReuters Standing in a cemetery of abandoned boats, Mohamed Fane picks a West African franc off the floor and shudders at the traumatic memory of his voyage from Senegal to the Canary Islands. After an arduous overland trip and months waiting, smugglers shepherded the 33-year-old carpenter into a flimsy wooden vessel with two […]
Pope Francis meets transgender guests of Rome church
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis has met with a fourth group of transgender people who found shelter at a Rome church, the Vatican newspaper reported Thursday. L’Osservatore Romano said the encounter took place Wednesday on the sidelines of Francis’ weekly general audience. The newspaper quoted Sister Genevieve Jeanningros and Rev Andrea Conocchia as saying the Pope’s […]
Darkness and debris impede rescue effort at flooded Mexico mine
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexican army divers were blocked by debris in their first attempt to descend deep into a flooded coal mine in northern Mexico where 10 miners have been trapped for a week, the country’s defence minister said on Thursday. The miners became trapped at a mine in the border state of Coahuila […]
Sharing spaces: Sanctuaries become art hubs thanks to new space-sharing site
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports on how a new website is providing a solution for New York City houses of worship in need of income…
In the US, Progressive National Baptists, AFL-CIO reunite for mid-terms voter initiative
United StatesRNS A predominantly Black denomination and prominent union in the US have joined forces in a new voter mobilisation initiative ahead of the mid-term elections. Reviving a partnership they had in the 1960s, the Progressive National Baptist Convention and the AFL-CIO are launching a faith and labour alliance focused on battleground states, where they […]
Essay: At 75, Pakistan has moved far from the secular and democratic vision of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah
In an article first published on The Conversation, FARAH N JAN, a scholar of South Asia, looks at the vision of Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah and how it stacks up against today’s reality…