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Bakhmut, Ukraine
Reuters
The hospital in the small Ukrainian town of Bakhmut was never intended to receive queues of ambulances bringing the wounded and traumatised from the front line of Europe's biggest battlefield.
Nor did the volunteer paramedics expect, four months ago, to be shuttling back and forth
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United States
AP
Frank Wilczek, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author renowned for his boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature, was honoured on Wednesday with this year’s prestigious Templeton Prize, awarded to individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality.
In a
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United States
RNS
No, an annual conference in the United States can’t just up and leave the United Methodist Church. At least not yet.
While the denomination’s Book of Discipline has provisions for individual churches wishing to leave the United Methodist Church with their properties, there’s nothing within
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Flagstaff, Arizona, US
AP
A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 500 student deaths at the institutions, but officials say that figure could grow exponentially as research continues.
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Sri Lankan President to appoint new PM, cabinet this week; Pope calls for leaders to respect human rights
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Colombo/Weerakeiya, Sri Lanka
Reuters
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Wednesday he would appoint a new Prime Minister and cabinet this week, after his elder brother and former premier Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned following deadly violence in the country.
The new prime minister and cabinet will command
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Updated: 7.45am (AEST), 12th May, 2022
Hong Kong, China
Reuters
Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, and three others who helped run a now-disbanded Hong Kong fund for protesters were arrested by on charges of "collusion with foreign forces," and later released
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From hospitals, funeral pyres and remote villages to a Himalayan hillside, car parks and temples, Reuters photographers produced coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in India that captured the spread of the disease and its remorseless toll.
The Reuters team won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
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San Jose, California, US
AP
A three-year-old girl whose death last fall has been ruled a homicide was the subject of an alleged exorcism last year at a Northern California church, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
The child, Arely Naomi Proctor, died last September after family members performed
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Washington DC, US
RNS
Interfaith leaders, including a top White House official, gathered at Georgetown University on Tuesday to affirm engagement across faiths and urge more multireligious action to enhance democracy and diminish polarisation.
“Especially at a time of deep division and threats to our constitutional democracy,
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Przemysl, Poland
Thomson Reuters Foundation
As Russian bombs rained down on the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in early March, Zoya Mamatkulova and her mother packed up their bags, put their cat in a pet carrier and headed for Poland.
But after travelling across three countries, shuttling between refugee shelters
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Raleigh, North Carolina, US
AP
A US civil rights leader said Tuesday that he won't stop raising his voice for the poor, uninsured and downtrodden, although his trespassing conviction for a demonstration five years ago at North Carolina's Legislative Building was allowed to stand.
Rev William Barber
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Mexico City, Mexico
Reuters
Karla Rios held up a banner with pictures of her sister and niece at the Mexican capital's monument to mothers on Tuesday - just two among thousands of people in Mexico who have disappeared in recent years without trace, leaving anguished relatives without answers.
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Bishop Vashti McKenzie, a recently retired bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, has been named the interim president and general secretary of the National Council of Churches, the ecumenical organisation announced on Tuesday.
McKenzie succeeds Jim Winkler, who left the post on 31st January after serving
