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- LIN TAYLOR
London
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Giving local communities the responsibility to manage forests - which are shrinking worldwide - could help ease poverty and deforestation, scientists said on Monday in what they described as one of the largest studies of its kind.
Researchers examined more than 18,000 community-led forest
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- SEBASTIEN MALO
New York City, US
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Teenagers in the US coastal state of North Carolina who were schooled in the basics of man-made climate change saw their parents grow more concerned about the issue, scientists said on Monday in the first study of its kind.
The results
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- ANNIE BANERJI
New Delhi
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A dozen Rohingya refugees, including teenagers, have been rescued from a suspected human trafficking operation, police in India said on Monday, after the group entered the country from Bangladesh without valid travel documents.
Acting on a tip-off from local charities, police in the
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- GUS TROMPIZ
Paris
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One million animal and plant species are at imminent risk of extinction due to humankind's relentless pursuit of economic growth, scientists said on Monday in a landmark report on the devastating impact of modern civilisation on the natural world.
Scientists made an impassioned appeal to governments
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Pastor and Bible teacher Warren Wiersbe has died at the age of 89.
Warren Wiersbe in an interview earlier this year with Thomas Nelson publishers. PICTURE: Via YouTube.
Dr Wiersbe, known to many as the "pastor's pastor", was a prolific speaker and author who wrote
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- DOREEN AJIAMBO
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Bible Society Australia CEO Greg Clarke has resigned after nine years at the helm.
In a statement, Anne Robinson, chairperson of the organisation's board, said Dr Clarke had overseen an "unprecedented period" in the organisation's history which included the amalgamation of six state bodies into one national body and the
Catholic bishops in Asia express concern over targeting of Muslims in Sri Lanka in wake of Easter Sunday attacks
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Catholic bishops in Asia have expressed concern over reports Muslims have been targeted in Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter Sunday attacks.
Agenzia Fides reports that Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Bishop of Yangon in Myanmar and president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences,
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- EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
Chicago, Illinois
RNS
Harvest Bible Chapel has apologised both privately and publicly to a freelance journalist and two bloggers whom it sued last fall.
The lawsuit, which also included the bloggers’ wives, had claimed the journalist and bloggers defamed the Chicago-area megachurch. The lawsuit later was dropped.
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- NICK MULVENNEY
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Wallabies fullback Israel Folau rejected a $A1 million offer from Rugby Australia to walk away from his contract ahead of this weekend's code of conduct hearing, local media reported on Sunday.
Folau, a fundamentalist Christian, on Saturday faced a three-member panel who will decide whether
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- ANURADHA NAGARAJ
Chennai, India
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Authorities in south India rescued dozens of bonded labourers from a farm on Friday after a tip-off from awareness campaigners that they had been banned from voting in a national election.
The campaigners said they were trying to raise awareness of the importance
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- MEGAN ROWLING
Barcelona, Spain
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A turbulent world requires emergency aid to be agile, faster and more efficient, instead of waiting until a crisis hits the headlines, said the chief of a charity launched last week.
With financial backing from the World Bank, IKEA Foundation and donor governments,
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- EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
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- NITA BHALLA
Nairobi, Kenya
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People fleeing violence in an Ebola-hit region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are being forced to cross the border illegally into Uganda, risking the virus spreading into the neighbouring East African nation, aid groups said on Friday.
More than 60,000
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