Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano erupts for first time in nearly 40 years
Reuters Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began erupting on Sunday for the first time since 1984, ending its longest quiet period in recorded history. The night sky above Hawaii’s largest island glowed a hellish red as bright, hot lava sprang forth at the volcano’s summit at around 11:30pm local time on Sunday. […]
Postcards: Burkina Faso’s vanishing gold boom puts livelihoods at risk
ANNE MIMAULT and HELEN REID, of Reuters, report on the impacts of a Islamist insurgency and political instability in Burkina Faso…
China’s lockdown protests spread to campuses and cities abroad
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Protests against China’s strict zero-COVID policy and restrictions on freedoms have spread to at least a dozen cities around the world in a show of solidarity with rare displays of defiance in China over the weekend. Expatriate dissidents and students staged small-scale vigils and protests in cities around the world including London, […]
Russia won’t stop strikes until it runs out of missiles, Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says
Kyiv/Kherson, UkraineReuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians to expect another brutal week of cold and darkness ahead, predicting more Russian attacks on infrastructure that would not cease until Moscow ran out of missiles. Russia has been carrying out massive missile bombardments on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure roughly weekly since early October, with each barrage having greater […]
A celebration, then death – Cameroon landslide buries 15 mourners
Yaounde, CameroonReuters A cigarette break made the difference between life and death for Makolo Doss, who stepped aside from a memorial celebration to have a smoke just as a mass of red earth suddenly collapsed on the gathering. Fifteen others at the event, in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde on Sunday, were not so lucky, killed […]
Somali troops overpower militants to end hotel siege
Mogadishu, SomaliaReuters Somali security forces stormed a hotel in the capital on Monday to end a near day-long siege by al-Shabaab militants who killed nine people at the building near the President’s residence in the capital, police said. Gunfire crackled from inside the hotel as the special forces fought the militants more than 12 hours […]
Australian Government moves to censure former Prime Minister
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s Labor government said it will move a parliamentary censure motion against former Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week after an inquiry found his secret appointment to multiple ministries undermined trust in government. Morrison, who lost power in a general election in May, secretly accumulated five ministerial roles during the COVID-19 pandemic: […]
Some Republicans criticise Trump for meeting with white supremacist
Washington DC, USReuters Some Republicans on Sunday criticised Donald Trump for dining with white supremacist Nick Fuentes at the former President’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida, even as Trump said the encounter was inadvertent. Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson accused Trump of empowering extremism. “I don’t think it’s a good idea for a leader who’s setting […]
Prague Christmas market returns after COVID but with fewer lights
Prague, Czech RepublicReuters Thousands of people poured into Prague’s medieval Old Town Square at the weekend for the lighting of a 25-metre Christmas tree and the reopening of the annual market after a two-year COVID-19 shutdown, but the energy crisis meant fewer lights than usual. The market, which is popular with Czechs and foreign tourists […]
A “commitment to service”: DC’s faith communities rally to protect bused-in immigrants
EMILY NEIL, of Religion News Service, reports that organising efforts in Washington have become a blueprint for other cities…