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Updated: 11am, 17th January, 2021
Mamuju, Indonesia
AP
Damaged roads and bridges, power blackouts and lack of heavy equipment on Saturday hampered rescuers after a strong earthquake left at least 49 people dead and hundreds injured on Indonesia's Sulawesi island.
Operations were focused on about eight locations in
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- KIM HARRIBSERG
Johannesburg, South Africa
Thomson Reuters Foundation
From growing vegetables to spending more time with their children, women's quality of life improved drastically after piped water was installed near their homes in rural Zambia, Stanford University researchers said on Thursday.
In a study involving 434 households in four Zambian
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- LAURIE GOERING
Some of the largest wildfires in Colorado's history left atmospheric chemist Emily Fischer and her two young daughters breathing in smoke for nearly two months last year.
"It really rattled me," the Colorado State University climate scientist admitted this week.
Homepage of
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- EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
The March for Life is going virtual this year.
The move online comes as the COVID-19 pandemic "may be peaking" and amid the "heightened pressures that law enforcement officers and others are currently facing in and around the Capitol," according to a statement posted Friday on the March
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- MEGAN ROWLING
Barcelona, Spain
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Spending to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic will determine whether countries are better able to adapt to more extreme weather and rising seas as the planet warms - a challenge they have failed to meet so far, top UN officials said this week.
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- EMMA BATHA
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
British pharmacies launched a codeword this week to tackle a feared spike in domestic violence during lockdown, telling victims to "ask for ANI" at the counter to secretly summon help.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the initiative, supported by more than 2,500
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- NANCHANOK WONGSAMUTH
Bangkok, Thailand
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Global brands and small firms are providing aid to migrant workers in Thailand after a jump in coronavirus cases, a move backed by activist groups on Thursday who urged businesses to help pay for testing and access healthcare.
In Samut Sakhon, a province
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Just 100 companies account for most of the profits from the world's seas, researchers said on Wednesday, calling on them to help save the oceans from over-fishing, rising temperatures and pollution.
Together, the companies generated $US1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, or about 60
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- MICHAEL TAYLOR
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Thomson Reuters Foundation
The world has lost tropical forest equivalent to the size of California over a 13-year period, green group WWF said this week, calling for COVID-19 recovery plans to revitalise conservation efforts.
In a new report, WWF analysed 24 deforestation hotspots across Asia,
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- CHRISTINE MURRAY
The United States must do more to prevent forced labour and exploitation in the global supply chains of US companies, current and former anti-trafficking ambassadors said on Wednesday, days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Holding companies liable for child labour committed overseas and compelling
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- JACK JENKINS
Washington DC, US
RNS
Rev Silvester S Beaman, pastor of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware, a predominantly Black church, will deliver the benediction at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Beaman, who has known the Biden family for nearly 30 years, is considered a
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- MICHELE CHABIN
An Israeli Government initiative to help vaccinate Holocaust survivors worldwide against COVID-19 is drawing praise for its intentions, but also scepticism.
The initiative, announced by Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich on Tuesday, seeks to vaccinate the estimated 200,000 Holocaust survivors who live outside of Israel. The vast
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