Haitians shelter in sports centre as fresh attacks displace nearly 9,000
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Hundreds of people are crammed into small white tents in the courtyard of a sports centre in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, drying clothes on the access ramps and washing their children in small, plastic tubs. Some 8,730 people have been displaced around the heavily populated neighbourhood of Carrefour-Feuilles, according to UN estimates on […]
Stampede at Madagascar’s national stadium kills 12, injures around 80 – PM
Antananarivo, Madagascar Reuters A stampede of sports fans trying to enter Madagascar’s national stadium for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games has killed 12 and injured around 80, the Prime Minister said on Friday. Videos shared on social media showed Red Cross workers caring for dozens of injured people next to the […]
Plastic levels in Swiss-French lake as high as world’s oceans
Founex, SwitzerlandReuters Lake Geneva, nestled at the foot of the Alps, has long been considered as a near-pristine body of water, but new research has found that its plastic pollution levels are as high as those in the oceans. Oceaneye, a Geneva-based non-profit that has for more than a decade been scouring the seas to […]
Boko Haram frees 49 women kidnapped in Nigeria’s Borno state
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Forty-nine women kidnapped by Boko Haram earlier in the week near Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, regained their freedom early on Friday after a state official paid a ransom for their release, two of the victims and a local leader said. Bukar Isa, from the Mines Advisory Group, shows displaced victims […]
In the US, an online assembly attempts to correct March on Washington gender gap
United StatesRNS The speakers at the Lincoln Memorial 60 years ago addressed a raft of issues: poverty, inequality, racial discrimination and the dream of racial harmony in America. The most famous among them was Rev Martin Luther King, Jr. But those gathered for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom also heard from […]
Civil case over Cardinal Pell abuse allegations allowed to proceed against church in Australia
Canberra, Australia AP An Australian court on Friday allowed a civil case to proceed against a Catholic archdiocese involving child sex abuse allegations against late Cardinal George Pell. The Victoria state Court of Appeal in Melbourne refused to hear the church’s challenge to a judge’s ruling that a father, identified in court documents as RWQ, was […]
Financial access: As Cuba takes leap towards “cashless” economy, entrepreneurs brace for impact
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Zimbabwe ruling party’s vote lead grows as observers decry “climate of fear”
Harare, ZimbabweReuters Partial results from Zimbabwe’s parliamentary election suggested the ruling party’s lead was growing on Friday, but election observers said the vote did not meet international standards and was conducted in a “climate of fear”. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ZANU-PF party was widely expected to maintain its 43-year grip on power after Zimbabweans voted in […]
Kremlin calls accusations it killed Wagner boss Prigozhin an “absolute lie”
Moscow, RussiaReuters The Kremlin said that Western suggestions Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed on its orders were an “absolute lie” while declining to definitively confirm his death, citing the need to wait for test results. Russia’s aviation authority has said that Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, was on board a […]