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The African Methodist Episcopal Church and other historically Black faith groups in Georgia have delayed a boycott of major companies, planning instead to protest the Masters golf tournament while giving company executives additional time to combat controversial elections law in the state.
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New York City, US
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Longstanding inequalities in the US labour market have worsened amid the coronavirus pandemic with working from home fuelling the divide, according to a Gallup report released on Wednesday.
Gallup surveyed more than 7,700 US adults in the final quarter of 2020,

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- JULIA SYMMES COBB
Bogota, Colombia
Reuters
South America is the most worrying region for COVID-19 infections, as cases mount in nearly every country, the director of the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.
"No-where are infections as worrisome as in South America", Director Carissa Etienne said during a weekly press

Beth Moore apologises for her role in elevating 'complementarian' theology that limits women leaders
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First she shook the evangelical world by leaving the Southern Baptist Convention. Now Beth Moore, arguably the evangelical world’s most famous Bible teacher, has begged forgiveness for supporting the theology of male headship rooted in many evangelical cultures.
In a Twitter thread on Wednesday, Moore took aim

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- LAURIE KELLMAN
Tel Aviv, Israel
AP
Coronavirus lockdowns last year shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers reported Wednesday. That’s raised concerns about a rise in anti-Semitism in the post-pandemic world.
The findings, which came in

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- FRANCESCO GUARASCIO
Brussels, Belgium
Reuters
European Union health ministers failed on Wednesday to agree a common guidance on the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, despite calls for coordination across member states to combat public hesitancy over taking the shot.
Ministers held an extraordinary virtual meeting just after the European

Updated: Myanmar security forces kill 15 protesters, junta leader says opposition aims to "destroy" country
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Reuters
Troops in Myanmar opened fire on pro-democracy protesters on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, the latest victims of a campaign to crush opposition to the ruling military junta, activists and media said.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, leader

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London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Increases in complaints about sexual abuse and harassment by aid workers are likely a sign that more victims feel able to come forward following closer scrutiny of the sector and increased safeguards, the British Government said on Tuesday.
Aid agencies have come under

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- EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
Chicago, US
RNS
In the summer of 2020, as the death of George Floyd shined a spotlight on racism and violence against Black Americans, the Asian American Christian Collaborative marched for Black lives.
Months later, leaders of the Black and Asian American churches involved in that march began

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- EMMA RUMNEY and DAVID LEWIS
Johannesburg, South Africa
Reuters
United Nations teams have received "worrying" reports that Tanzania has rejected over 1,000 people seeking refuge from an Islamic State-claimed attack on a town in northern Mozambique, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.
The 24th March attack on the town of Palma,

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- SHILPA JAMKHANDIKAR and RAJENDRA JADHAV
Mumbai, India
Reuters
Hospitals in Maharashtra are running short of beds, piped oxygen and a key anti-viral drug as a second wave of coronavirus infections has swamped India's richest state, doctors and patients' families said.
Home to India's financial capital Mumbai, Maharashtra accounts for nearly a quarter of
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