Vanuatu breaks ground with ‘loss and damage’ costing in new climate plan
Thomson Reuters Foundation Pacific island state Vanuatu has submitted a “groundbreaking” update to its commitments under the Paris climate accord to include phasing out fossil fuels and a costing of how it aims to tackle destruction caused by rising seas and wild weather. Climate experts said that while most national contributions focus on cutting planet-heating […]
Essay: Prosecuting a president is divisive and sometimes destabilising – here’s why many countries do it anyway
US political scientists VICTOR MENALDO, JAMES D LONG and MORGAN WACK examine – in an article first published on The Conversation – look at what history shows when a country prosecutes current or former top officials…
Postcards: Murals bring hope in Ukrainian city under Russian attack
HORACI GARCIA, of Reuters, reports on life in Bakhmut, one of the last Ukrainian strongholds in eastern Ukraine…
Zimbabwe measles outbreak blamed on sect gatherings kills 157 children
Harare, Zimbabwe Reuters A measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed 157 children with the death toll nearly doubling in just under a week, the information minister said on Tuesday. The government last week blamed apostolic church sects for the surge in infections, saying measles was largely prevalent among those who had not received vaccinations. The […]
Lag in slavery reparations from US Jesuits irks descendants
United StatesAP Last year, the US branch of the Jesuits pledged to raise $US100 million for a reconciliation initiative in partnership with descendants of people once enslaved by the Catholic order. On Tuesday, a leader of those descendants expressed deep dissatisfaction with the order’s lack of progress since then. Joseph Stewart, in a publicly released letter to […]