“The world is watching”, say architects of Australia’s Indigenous referendum
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia has a chance to fix its image as a global outlier by voting in favour of constitutionally recognising its Indigenous people, architects of the proposed change said. Australians will be asked to vote in a referendum later this year on whether they support altering the constitution to include a “Voice to Parliament”, […]
Snapshot: Woodlands near Cucioaia, Moldova
See MARIA LUPAN’s image…
Brazil’s Lula will ask Nicaragua’s Ortega to release jailed bishop
Rome, ItalyReuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday he would personally lobby Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega to release a bishop who has been imprisoned in the Central American state. Rolando Alvarez, Bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa and a critic of the Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, walks at Managua’s catholic church where […]
On the Screen: No surprises but plenty of big screen action in Transformers’ return
DAVID ADAMS watches the latest ‘Transformers’ film…
Vatican says has new leads on missing schoolgirl, 40 years after she vanished
Vatican CityReuters A Vatican prosecutor said on Thursday he had uncovered new leads “worthy of further investigation” into the disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl, who vanished 40 years ago. Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican usher, failed to return home on 22nd June, 1983 following a music lesson in Rome. She was 15 at […]
Swiss court acquits police officers over Black man’s death, sparking anger
Lausanne, Switzerland Reuters A Swiss court on Thursday acquitted six white police officers of charges of negligent homicide in the death of a Black man who suffered a fatal heart attack after he was held down in the street during an arrest. The case has raised questions about structural racism in Switzerland and the prosecution […]
Amnesty accuses Spain and Morocco of cover-up over Melilla enclave migrant deaths
Barcelona, Spain Reuters Amnesty International on Friday accused Spain and Morocco of a cover-up for failing to properly investigate events at the border of the Spanish enclave of Melilla last year, when tens of migrants and refugees died during a mass attempted crossing. On 24th June, 2002, around 2,000 Sub-Saharan African migrants and refugees attempted […]
Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to mainland in blow to Russian supply route
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian missiles on Thursday struck one of the few bridges linking the Crimea Peninsula with the Ukrainian mainland, Russian-appointed officials said, cutting one of the main supply routes for Russian occupation forces in southern Ukraine. A view shows the damaged Chonhar Bridge connecting Russian-held parts of Ukraine’s Kherson region to the Crimean peninsula, […]
Narendra Modi denies religious discrimination exists in India
Washington DC, USReuters Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi denied that discrimination against minorities existed under his government during a press conference with US President Joe Biden on Thursday. Rights groups and the State Department have made detailed allegations of abuses of minorities, dissidents and journalists in India. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a […]
Sound tech: For church worship teams, Auto-Tune covers a multitude of sins. Especially online.
The boom in livestreaming and the ubiquity of Auto-Tune and other technologies have led churches to up their game when it come to sound technology. But has it gone too far? BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…