French police clash with black-clad anarchists during May Day rallies
Paris, FranceReuters French police clashed with hundreds of black-clad anarchists in Paris and other cities during union-led protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s increase in the retirement age, as workers staged Labour Day rallies across Europe. Demonstrators pelted Paris police with Molotov cocktails and fireworks, torched building materials and smashed up bus stops. Protesters marching peacefully […]
Initial autopsies show children starved, asphyxiated in Kenyan cult
Nairobi, KenyaReuters The bodies of several children exhumed in eastern Kenya showed signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation, a government pathologist said on Monday, as investigators began the first autopsies on over 100 people linked to a doomsday cult. On Monday investigators said they had completed 10 autopsies, comprising nine children aged between […]
Russian strikes kill two in Ukraine, damage dozens of buildings
Pavlohrad, Ukraine Reuters Russia unleashed a fresh volley of missiles on Ukraine overnight in a city in the east, killing two people, setting off huge blazes and damaging dozens of homes and other buildings. Firefighters work at the site of a residential area hit by a Russian military strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in […]
Sudan battles risk exodus of 800,000 people – UN
Khartoum, SudanReuters The United Nations warned on Monday that 800,000 people may flee Sudan as rival military factions battled in the capital despite a supposed ceasefire and foreign states wound down evacuations. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded over 16 days of battles since disputes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary […]
Head of Mexican migration authority charged over deadly Juarez fire
Mexico City Reuters A judge in northern Mexico has ordered the head of the national migration authority charged over a fire late last month that killed 40 migrants at a holding center in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said on Sunday. National Immigration Institute Commissioner Francisco Garduno arrives at the Federal Court to attend […]
Air defences shoot down 15 of 18 missiles launched at Ukraine in dead of night
Updated: 5pm (AEST)Reuters Ukrainian air defence crews destroyed 15 out of 18 missiles launched by Russian forces in the early hours of Monday morning, the military said, as Moscow intensified attacks on its neighbour in recent days. “Around 2:30 am, the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine from strategic aviation planes,” a post on the Telegram channel […]
Paraguay’s conservatives score big election win, defusing Taiwan fears
Updated: 11am (AEST)Asuncion, ParaguayReuters Paraguayan conservative economist Santiago Pena, 44, won the country’s presidential election on Sunday, tightening the ruling Colorado Party’s political grip in the country and defusing fears about the end of diplomatic ties with Taiwan. Pena, who has pledged to maintain Paraguay’s long-standing Taiwan relations, had 42.7 per cent of the vote […]
New York repatriates three antiquities to Yemen after seizing them from Met board member
Reuters New York will return three antiquities worth $US725,000 to the people of Yemen, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced on Friday, as part of a criminal investigation into a Manhattan-based private collector. A Yemeni soldier stands next to the 3,000-year old Temple of the Moon in Marib, Yemen, on 16th October, 2015. PICTURE: Reuters/Angus […]
Mexico bus plunges off cliff, at least 18 die
Mexico City, MexicoReuters At least 18 people were killed and 33 injured when a bus fell off a cliff in western Mexico, local authorities said Sunday. Emergency personnel work on the site where a bus carrying tourists travelling to Guayabitos overturned, in Compostela, Nayarit state, Mexico in this handout image obtained from social media on […]
Martin Luther King Jr: Sixty years on, King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ relevant as ever, say faith leaders
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports that King’s response to white clergy critics endures as a ‘road map’ for those working on justice and equal rights…