Wow!: As buyers demand it, Bangladesh garment factories go green
MOSABBER HOSSAIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that a decade after the deadly Rana Plaza disaster, Bangladesh is home to nine of the world’s top 10 sustainable garment factories…
North Korea launches missiles from submarine as US-South Korean drills begin
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine on Sunday, state news agency KCNA said on Monday just as US-South Korea military drills were due to begin. “Strategic” is typically used to describe weapons that have a nuclear capability. A general view as North Korea fired two missiles from […]
Thirty migrants missing, 17 rescued after boat capsizes in central Mediterranean
Rome, ItalyReuters Thirty people are missing and 17 were rescued in the central Mediterranean on Sunday after the boat in which they were travelling from Libya capsized in bad weather, Italy’s coast guard said. Rescue operations were ongoing, supported by merchant ships and aerial support by the EU’s border agency Frontex, while two further merchant […]
Police limit anti-government protest in Moldova
Chisinau, MoldovaReuters Police in Moldova kept several thousand demonstrators away from government buildings on Sunday after officials warned of possible organised disorder at the protest, the latest of a series denouncing pro-European President Maia Sandu. The rally followed weeks of competing warnings of impending trouble in ex-Soviet Moldova, where missiles have repeatedly landed near its […]
Nicaragua closes Vatican embassy in Managua, Nicaraguan embassy to Vatican – source
Vatican City Reuters Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has ordered the closure of the Vatican Embassy in Managua and that of the Nicaraguan Embassy to the Vatican in Rome, a senior Vatican source said on Sunday. Nicaragua signalled that the move, which came a few days after Pope Francis compared the Nicaraguan government to a dictatorship, […]
Both Russia, Ukraine report high casualties in Donetsk
Reuters Both Ukraine and Russia on Sunday reported high casualties in Ukraine’s Donbas region, the focus of Moscow’s slow, long-running advance into its neighbour’s territory. Much of the fighting in the east has centred on Bakhmut, largely destroyed in months of attacks and shelling by Russia during the year-old conflict. A view shows an icon […]
Cyclone in Peru causes major flooding, at least six dead
Lima, PeruReuters At least six people have died in Peru over the last few days as a powerful cyclone unleashed torrential rains, battering hundreds of homes and causing major disruptions in northern areas of the Latin American country, authorities said. The government has declared a state of emergency as it seeks to bring relief to […]
Russian Orthodox head appeals against eviction of church from Kyiv
Reuters Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday asked Pope Francis and other religious leaders to persuade Ukraine to stop a crackdown against a historically Russian-aligned wing of the church. Kyiv on Friday ordered the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to leave a monastery complex where it is based, the latest move against a […]
Nuns, friars partner to explore future for iconic shuttered Hollywood monastery
Los Angeles, USRNS For nearly a century, the Monastery of the Angels in the Hollywood Hills served as home to a community of cloistered Dominican nuns who devoted their lives to study Scripture and to pray for those who came to them for guidance and penance. But the community dwindled as the nuns aged and […]
German Catholic Church reform assembly calls for same-sex blessings
Berlin, Germany AP A meeting between Germany’s Catholic bishops and lay representatives agreed Friday to call for the church to approve blessings of same-sex unions. The three-day gathering, which is part of the “Synodal Path” launched in 2019 in response to the sex abuse crisis that has rocked the church in Germany and many other […]