Fight back or flee? Myanmar draft forces hard choices on youth
Reuters Weeks after Myanmar’s military government announced a nationwide draft, two young women from far-flung parts of the South-East Asian country headed to the jungles to take up arms against the junta. For two men in their 30s in Myanmar’s two largest cities, the threat of conscription after the February call-up prompted them to upend […]
Helpdesk: Looking to photograph a solar eclipse with your smartphone? Try these features and think about creative angles
DOUGLAS GOODWIN – in an article first published on The Conversation – provides some tips…
Suriname’s ex-president fled murder conviction. His victims’ families want him found
Paramaribo, Suriname Reuters The families of Surinamese activists slain for their opposition to the government in the 1980s say decades of suffering and sluggish legal proceedings have been prolonged by the apparent inability of authorities to locate the man at the centre of it all: former President Desi Bouterse. Bouterse, 78, dominated politics in the […]
Cecil L ‘Chip’ Murray, influential pastor and civil rights leader in Los Angeles, dies
Los Angeles AP Rev Dr Cecil L “Chip” Murray, an influential pastor and civil rights leader who used his tenure at one of Los Angeles’ oldest churches to uplift the predominantly Black neighbourhoods of South Los Angeles following one of the country’s worst race riots, has died. He was 94. Murray died on Friday, according […]
Climate-warming gases being smuggled into Europe, investigation says
Singapore Reuters Large amounts of climate-warming refrigerant gases from China and Turkey are being smuggled illegally into Europe, undermining a global pact to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said on Monday. The gases are hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a range of chemicals used mostly for cooling in industry and retail, […]
Russian nuclear company reports attack on Zaporizhzhia plant
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russia’s nuclear power corporation, Rosatom, accused Ukraine’s military on Sunday of launching a series of attacks on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and the UN’s nuclear watchdog called for such incidents to cease immediately. Rosatom said three people were hurt, one seriously. Russia urged world leaders to denounce the incidents. Both […]
Twenty-five civilians killed in militia attack in eastern Congo
Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters The death toll from an attack in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province rose to 25 on Sunday, a local chief and civil society leader said, after a government spokesman and a UN document confirmed the attack on Saturday. The Cooperative for the Development of […]
Protecting archaeological sites: Alien fever dreams fuel Peruvian grave robbings
CASSANDRA GARRISON and MARCO AQUINO, of Reuters, report on the need for greater action to stop looting in the remote Nazca region…
A Canadian island named by Captain Cook prepares to throw solar eclipse party
Reuters In the remote town of Burgeo on the east coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, some residents are enthusiastically waiting to view Monday’s rare solar eclipse and recreate the history of an island named by Captain James Cook. British explorer Captain Cook, who was in Newfoundland in 1766 witnessed the solar […]
Essay: Nukes in space – a bad idea in the 1960s and an even worse one now
Researcher MICHAEL MULVIHILL explains why efforts to ensure nuclear weapons aren’t used space need to be supported…