This Life: From sunrises to everlasting light
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on the joy of a sunrise and the hope faith brings in a time of sadness…
Ukrainian people win EU’s 2022 Sakharov freedom prize
Brussels, Belgium/Kyiv, UkraineReuters The European Parliament on Wednesday awarded the people of Ukraine its annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to honour their fight against Russia’s invasion. “They are standing up for what they believe in. Fighting for our values. Protecting democracy, freedom and rule of law. Risking their lives for us,” European Parliament […]
Brazil’s Lula issues letter to evangelicals to allay concern
Sao Paulo, BrazilAP Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva published an open letter to evangelicals on Wednesday aimed at countering claims he would persecute their faith and at winning votes among a large and growing part of the population. The letter, read at a gathering with evangelical leaders at a Sao Paulo hotel, […]
Putin demands all-Russia war effort as he declares martial law in occupied Ukraine
London, UKReuters Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed last month as its own territory but is struggling to defend from Ukrainian advances. In televised remarks to members of his Security Council, Putin boosted the security powers of all Russia’s regional […]
WHO says COVID-19 is still a global health emergency
Reuters The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that COVID-19 remains a global emergency, nearly three years after it was first declared as one. The WHO’s emergency committee first made the declaration for COVID-19 on 30th January, 2020. Such a determination can help accelerate research, funding and international public health measures to contain a disease. […]
WHO’s Tedros says narrow window to “prevent genocide” in Ethiopia
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday there was a “very narrow window now to prevent genocide” in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. Tedros, who previously served as Ethiopia’s health minister and foreign affairs minister, has been sharply critical of Ethiopian authorities throughout the two-year war. […]
UN agency flags concern over mass Venezuelan expulsions from US
Mexico City/Ciudad Juarez, MexicoReuters As hundreds of Venezuelan migrants were expelled to Mexico from the United States under a new policy over the past week, the United Nations voiced concern that shelters were being overwhelmed, leaving families without places to stay in the dangerous border region. More than 3,000 Venezuelans have been returned to Mexico […]
Concern about climate change shrinks globally as threat grows – study
Berlin, GermanyReuters Concerns about climate change shrank across the world last year, a survey shows, with fewer than half those questioned believing it posed a “very serious threat” to their countries in the next 20 years. Only 20 per cent of people in China, the world’s biggest polluter, said they believed that climate change was […]
Russian commander admits situation is ‘tense’ for his forces in Ukraine
Kyiv, UkraineReuters The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine made a rare acknowledgment of the pressures they are under from Ukrainian offensives to retake southern and eastern areas that Moscow claims to have annexed just weeks ago. And in another sign of Russian concern about the situation on the ground eight months into its […]
StrangeSights: ‘Star Wars’ characters on the march in Mexico; Elon Musk releases ‘Burnt Hair’; and Tina Turner becomes a Barbie…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…